Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	disciple_n	lord_n	servant_n	4,835	5	7.3594	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90244	The ordinance for tythes dismounted, from all Mosaicall, evangelicall, and true magesteriall right. By that valliant and most victorious champion, the great anti-clergy of our times, his superlative holyness, reverend young Martin Mar-Priest, sonne to old Martin the Metropolitane. Commended and presented to the petitioners of Hertford-shire, for their further encouragement, and for provocation of other counties to become petitionary with them against the unhallowed illegall exaction of tythes.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1645 (1645)	Wing O632; Thomason E313_27; ESTC R200481	33,415	43

of working for minishation to necessities has so farre as a man is free from impediment so farre he is bound in duty of working to supply his necessities So that though Paul and Barhabas bad power to forbeare working that they might Freash the Gospel that is improve time in Preaching which otherwise or in such eminens necessity they were bound to work in with their hands to supply their necessities yet for all this they were bound to work even with their bands when possibly they could for Preaching that they might make the Gospel without 〈◊〉 can an utter forbearance or totall dispensotion from working was not in their power without limitation though to Preach they might 〈◊〉 are yet when for Preaching they could worke they might not forbeare i and when their preaching occasioned their forbearance then they were to live on the Gospel then were not their murther to be minuted then were they to beed on the milke of the stick for living on the Gospel is entayl'd on preaching of the Gospel the living extends to further then pretebing for Preaching gives power and Title thereto its essence and being is in Preathing so that it cannot extend beyond that by which it hath its power and beeing for should it it should give beyond its power and beeing and beyond is beeing it can have no Title or be longer esteemed that power so that look how farre they were deprived of Ministring to their necessities through Preaching even so farre they had a right to the Peoples Administration so farre they liad power to eate and to drinke and no further they were not to be Idle six dayes and Preach on the seventh and rely wholly upon the People that was not in their power nor yet in their practise but when they had spare time from Preaching they improv'd it in labouring for their bread and at other times when they were busied in Preaching were content with what was given them receiving no more but for their present necessities they never had or were to have any more then abare livelyhood It is enough that the Disciple be as his Master and the servant as his Lord Math. 10. 25. Now their Master lived in great humility hee had never a Living of 4. or 5. hundred a yeere never had a House like the Dean of Pauls confirmed upon him by an Ordinance of PARL The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the Aire have nests but the Sonne of Man bad not whereon to lay his head he lived in mean condition was lowly and meek hee never was trundled up and down Presbyter-like in a Coach he sate meekly upon an Asse and a colt the foale of an Asse Matth. 21. 5. and his Disciples lived the like life of humility they made no further use of the World then for their necessities giving up themselves wholly to the Gospel and were onely servants unto JESUS CHRIST according to their duties for no man can serve two Masters for either hoe must hate the one or love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other yee cannot serve God and Mammon Mat. 6. 24. therefore his Preachers must not be addicted to the world be such as plunder mens goods and rifle their houses to spend upon their lusts and pleasurs or to be such lazie idle Drones like our Priests who take their pleasure and ease all the week onely give us an house or two of Hodg-podge delusion the First Day No such come not within the vaile of his acceptance but such rather that will both Preach and work that after their Preaching will fall to mending old Bellowes sweeping of Chimneys crying of Brooms or Small-coale or taking any such-like honest course of livelyhood such are most fit to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ yea indeed it is from such that wee receive the greatest information in the mysteries of Jesus Christ in these dayes for indeed they are in his Ordinance follow his Patterne and example of his Apostles Not Preaching for filthy lucre but out of Conscience 2. I desire may be observed That whereas he saith Even so the Lord hath ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live on the Gospel that from thence no other livelyhood may be concluded then such as the Lord himself had ordained for his Preachers or that Paul himself that had as great a power as ever any of them had did in them words intend a power further then the Lords own Ordination Now the Lords Ordination concerning those that hee sent forth into the world to Preach the Gospel both to the Twelve Apostles and after them the 70. Disciples was Luk. 10. 7 8. to eate and to drinke such things as were given for the labourer is worthy of his hire and into what City soever they entred to eat such things as were set before them by those that did receive them and Matth. 10. 10 11. they have the same Injunction That in the City or house that was worthy there they were to abide till they went thence for the labourer is worthy of his meat And this was all that ever the Lords Ordination provided for their living on the Gospel a power barely for their Victualls or present necessities even such as was given them was their hire and no more they had power given them to eate of their meat for the Labourer was worthy of his meat that was all that the Lords Labourers were to require for their hire or to account themselves worthy of and those that would not give this they were but to shake off the dust from their feet in testimony against them farre different from the Plundering Ordinance for Tythes And no other power then this Paul pleadeth for to the Corinthians for whereas he saith Have wee not power to eate and to drinke hee pleadeth it as one sent from the Lord to Preach unto the world as vers 1. and 10. declareth Now it is evident what power such had to eating and drinking that is of such as was given them of such as was set before them therefore no other can be concluded of Paul but even as the Lord had ordained and so and no otherwise they that Preached the Gospel were to live on the Gospel their necessities were to be looked upon and for necessity sake they were meerly to be relieved for the Lords Provisun was for no more and therewith his Servants were to be content Therefore their Title to it was not simply as they were Apostles or Preachers but as Apostles and Preachers in necessity And thus it is cleer that all the Divine Right they had to other supply then what they acquired by their hands was but in cases of necessity and that was but to matters of bounty So that it is most certaine That the Preachers of our Lord in their supply are but as Almes-men and so they are to live and to be esteemed and esteem themselves to be no other then the Almes-men of the Gospel