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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07668	A target for tillage briefly containing the most necessary, pretious, and profitable vse thereof both for king and state. By Iohn Moore Minister of Gods word, and Parson of Knaptoft in Leicestershire. Anno 1611.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 18058; ESTC S120561	22,755	74

consisteth by the field that is tilled viz. Hath need of the husbandmans labour to till the earth by the fruits whereof he and his ●ubiects are maintained Whence we may further obserue Gods wonderful wisedome and prouidence for the preseruation of the societie and fellowship of mankind that as the inferiors cānot be without the superiors no more can these without the other euen the king himselfe hath need of the rusticke carter and clowne as he is miscalled to till the ground As there must be such as rule without confusion of all things so there must be such as will obey As there be maisters so there must be seruants The king cannot go to plow yet if he will consist and be vpholden with his subiects the land must needs be husbanded As God hath appointed to euery one their place so he hath fitted them with seuerall qualities and gifts and enioyned them speciall employments for the common good There is the head and the body and there be many members yet euerie one hath his peculiar place euery one his office and order for the common good of the whole The eye cannot say to the head nor the head to the feete I haue no need of you All is not an eye nor an eare c. Yea those members that are reputed the basest and vilest nature hath most honored and respected As without all the members the body is vnperfect so without these necessary callings the body politick of the commonweath is lame So is it also in the Church Are all Apostles are all Prophets are all teachers No God hath ordained some Prophets some Euangelists some Pastors and Teachers for the worke of the Ministerie and edification of the body of Christ that so we may grow vp in him which is the head vnto a perfect man and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ The reason of which doctrine is for that it specially maketh for Gods glory whose wisedome and prouidence is seene in this goodly order of all his creatures when as we see and behold how he hath made euery one so profitable in their place and nothing in vaine but for the mutuall helpe and good each to other Secondly God will haue it so to be to linke vs all together in loue and care one of another This debt is alwaies owing and must still be paide amongsts Christians not onely for the community of nature but for that our God hath made vs so seruiceable and profitable in our seuerall places and for one anothers vse And to conclude God hath so fitted vs to serue one anothers turne to humble the highest standing sometime in need of the meanest poore man Euen the king hath need of the very clown noble Naaman of his slauish handmaid and that to beate downe our pride and selfloue who otherwise would not be beholding to any no not to God our maker if we could shift for our selues The vse is first for our instruction to teach vs to know that we are not borne for our selues but for the good of our brethren Our graces and gifts are not our owne but giuen vs of God to the edification of others which therfore must make vs to leane and looke one towards another in the time of need when iust occasion serueth The superiour to respect the inferiour the rich the poore the wise the ignorant and so with holy Iob to be eyes to the blind and feet to the lame and a father to the poore If saith he I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant and of my maid when they did contend with me what shall I do when God standeth vp against me what shall I answer He that hath made me hath he not made him hath not he alone fashioned vs in the wombe So the Apostle Paul inferreth vpō the former point that we reioyce with them that reioyce and weepe with them that weepe that we be of like affection one towards another not high minded nor wise in our owne conceit Againe it serueth to reproue all such as abuse their headship and preheminence and such as by this pretence go about to trample all their inferiours vnder foote who vrge the dutie of others neglect their own Am not I a king a Lord a maister Am I not a Magistrate a Landlord a father c. And dost thou know me Yes but doest thou know thyselfe and God and why he hath preferred and promoted thee Namely to do good and no harme to helpe and not to hurt Knowest thou not that there is a King of kings a Lord of lords My brethren saith Iames be not many maisters knowing that we shal receiue the greater condēnation Speak not euill one of another grudge not one against another lest ye be cōdēned behold the Iudge standeth before the doore And therefore as the Apostle exhorteth the Hebrewes that they despise not their teachers for that they watch for their soules so let not the highest Potentate and greatest men in place contemne the poore husbandman that laboureth for their bodies God will haue a mutuall subiection amongst all and a reciprocall respect and reflection of the beames of loue and all holy duties amongst Christian brethren From which iniunction Christ Iesus himselfe was not exempted who washed his Disciples feete to teach them humility who became poore to make vs rich c. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrowes and so must we beare one anothers burthens and so fulfill the law of Christ The king consisteth by the field that is tilled viz. Neither he nor his subiects can liue without tillage whence obserue the singular vse and necessity of tillage Kings themselues cannot be without it neither in regard of their owne estate nor their subiects for as all must haue food and sustenance so must the necessary meanes therunto be vsed and embraced The sweet fruits of the earth will not now be gotten without the sweat of mans face Adam himselfe the hei●e of all the world must first till the ground before he haue his food and not onely he but his heires must go to plow if they will haue any profite Neither was it infamous at the first for the greatest men of renown to be seen very expert in this trade of tillage It was Noahs calling as before so after the floud And to passe ouer the Patriarches and Prophets as Isaac Elisha and many other Christ himself is not ashamed to call his Father an husbandman And this is the title of Gods Ministers they are Gods husbandmen his people their field and husbandry and his word and the obedience thereof the seed fruite of their labors Yea God himselfe is said to be the teacher of the trade in the Prophesie of Esay Doth the plowmā plow all the day to sow doth he open break the clods of his