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A87510	A mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall, in severall tractates: vvherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untied, many darke places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies, and errours, refuted, / by Henry Ieanes, minister of God's Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.; Mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall. Part 1	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing J507; Thomason E872_3; Thomason E873_1; ESTC R202616	347,399	402

made themselves Eunuchs whereupon some ambitious fooles castrated themselves and so that they might be great men in power and place they made themselves monsters and no men Shall men be thus forward to imitate the defects and deformities of powerfull personages here on earth and shall not we be very diligent in our imitation of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hath all power given unto him in heaven and earth Our Saviour himselfe makes the extent and universality of his dominion a motive as unto faith in him obedience to him so unto imitation of him All things are delivered into my hands c. therefore learne of me and he instanceth in two particulars that more especially deserve to be imitated for I am meeke and lowly in heart which brings me unto the third sort of dutyes unto which from the fulnesse of Christs authority we may be exhorted and they are such as relate unto our Brethren meeknesse and humility Vse 1. of Exhortation First from the fulnesse of Christs authority compared with his meeknesse we may all be exhorted unto meeknesse All things were delivered unto him of his Father and yet he was meek Math. 11.27,29 His carriage unto even his most insulting and provoking enemies was full of meeknesse in his greatest sufferings There never dropt from him so much as one impatient word or syllable who when he was reviled reviled not againe when he suffered he threatned not but committed himselfe to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2.23 and yet he could have taken upon the greatest of his adversaries a most speedy easy revenge to see such power matched with such patience should make us all blush at the excesses of our anger and the rage of our impatience towards all those almost with whom we converse Not only private but even publick persons those of greatest place may very well in the execution of their places propound unto themselves this matchlesse meeknesse of their Saviour and carry their goverment as Christ did upon their shoulders in patience that is so farr as they may without prejudice unto justice beare with the weaknesse and way wardnesse of their charges Magistrates may hence be instructed to carry their people in their bosome as a nursing father beareth the sucking child Num. 11.12 ministers may hence learne to be patient in meeknesse instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Divell who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2.24,25,26 Aaron carryed the twelve tribes in his brestplate next to his heart to shew that in care he was to bear them Exod. 28. ver 29. But he had them also engraven in two Onyx-stones ver 12. and those set upon his very shoulders to shew he must otherwhile beare them in patience too And it is not only Aarons case and other high Priests under the Law The Morall is applyable unto all ministers of the Gospell they are to beare their people as in their breasts by pastorall care and affection so on their shoulders in great patience and long-suffering Use 2. of Exhortation Secondly from a comparison of the fulnesse of Christs power with the greatnesse of his humility all men the greatest of men may be exhorted unto humility towards even the meanest of their brethren All things were delivered unto him of his father and yet he was lowly in mind therefore learne of him Math. 11.27,28 In Iohn 13. we have his actuall knowledge or consideration of his soveraignty connexed with an action wherein was the very depth of humility vers 3 4 5. Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God He riseth from supper and laid aside his garments and tooke a towell and girded himselfe after that he poureth water into a bason and began to wash his Disciples feet and to wipe them with the towell wherewith he was girded Some might interpret this action of our Saviour to proceed from incogitancy or inadvertency and thinke that he forgat himselfe and did a thing unbecoming his dignity To prevent this the Evangelist makes his notice of and meditation upon the fulnesse of his authority the preface unto this his great example of humility knowing that the Father hath given all things into his hand c. he ariseth from supper c. and began to wash his Disciples feet c. The washing of feet was a civility with which at those times in those hot Eastern countryes strangers were entertained especially in the evening and therefore perhaps might be usuall towards superiors and equalls but that he that had all things given into his hands by the Father he that was come from God and was forthwith to goe to God should wash the feet of his owne disciples of which some were poor fisher men is an unheard of condescention who can be proud and looke upon so humble a Saviour whose pride should not so lowly an action of his beat downe what power is there that should swell the spirit of any mortall wight when he that hath all power given unto him in heaven and earth stoops unto so low a service who should refuse to write after such a copy of Lowlinesse Especially seeing our Saviour himself exhorts hereunto vers 13 14. Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers feet In washing of the feet there is Synecdoche Speciei the speciall is put for the generall washing of the feet being a base and abject service stands for all offices or duties of love though never so low and meane unto such offices all men are obliged even superiors unto their inferiors In una itaque specie officii totum genus officiorum intelligimus Ita quod explicando debitum abluendi pedes comprehēditur debitum cujusque officii tam corporalis quā Spiritualis quia ipsa ablutio à Iesu corporalis quidem exercitata est Spiritualis verò sermone exposita Intendit ergo ad literam-Iesus ut ab ip sius exemplo cognoscamus nos debitores invicē ad mutua officia quibus opus est tā ad corpus quàm ad Spiritum Mutua siquidem praecipit dicendo alter alterius Sed intellige proportionaliter ut non dedignentur superiores exercere officia sibi congrua tam ad corporis quàm ad Spiritus aliorum utilia ex quo Iesus Dominus non horum aut illorum sed omnium magister non horum aut illorum sed omnium dignatus est sponte tam vile exercere officium lavandi pedes piscatorum c. Exemplum enim dedi vobis Ne facta à Iesu domino magistro admiranda potius quam imitanda acciperemus explicat imitanda Cajetan in

locum Speciem ponit pro genere nam per lotionem pedum quod omnium ministeriorum humillimum est omnia exempla omnia ministeria intelligit humilitatis Maldonat in locum Quod ad externam pedum ablutionem attinet minimè fuit Christo propositum talem ritum sacrum in Ecclesia instituere sed secutus morem illis temporibus regionibus ab ultima vetustate consuetum ablutionis pedum ad viatores praesertim vespere excipiendos ut ex quamplurimis Scripturae locis apparet hoc genere sermonis mutuam verorum Christi Discipulorum omnium inter se conjunctionem ad quid vis muruae aedificationis causâ praestandum commendavit non verbo tantum sed suo quoque ipsius exemplo 1 Cor. 9.19.1 Tim. 5.10 Luc 7.44 Generalis est ergo haec praeceptio mutuam Christianorum omnium inter se charitatem omni officiorum genere testandam complectens quidem iis inprimis conveniens quos Dominus caete●is doctrina omni verarum virtutum exemplo praefecit inter quas excellit profecto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tantopere ipsis commendata Mat. 20.27,28 Beza in locum Vide Piscatorem in locum The holiest of men have Christ for their Master the greatest and most powerfull have him for their Lord his washing then the feet not the head of his Disciples and servants should be a forcible inducement unto any man whatsoever to serve even the meanest of his brethren in the most condescending and self-denying acts of love especially seeing hee himselfe tells his disciples that this his practice was not so much for admiration as imitation vers 15. for I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done unto you This example of Christ obligeth all Christians for he speaketh unto his Apostles not only in the notion of Apostles or Ministers but also under the capacity of Christians and believers but yet there may be and no doubt is an appropriation of the obligation unto ministers so that it concerneth them in a more especiall manner then it doth others and so much may very probably be gathered from the last words of the next verse neither is he that is sent greater then he that sent him They that are sent by Christ as Ambassadors should not above all men disdaine the doing that of which they have a president in him their great Lord and Master but should make use of the meditation hereof as a powerfull incentive unto an affable humble carriage and behaviour and that unto both their fellow ministers and their brethren First unto their fellow brethren of the ministry no kind of eminency whatsoever can put such a distance between ministers of the gospell as there was between Christ the Apostles for he had all things delivered into his hand and them amongst the rest yet though he knew this he performed unto them an act of such servility as that when he addressed himselfe unto the performance thereof Peter was transported with a just wonder and utterly refused it as he thought then out of a devout reverence because he judged it no way suiting with the relation he had unto Christ for he was his Lord and Master and therefore he thought he should much forget himselfe to receive such service from him Peter saith unto him Lord dost thou wash my feet thou shalt never wash my * Tu mihi quid est tu quid est mihi cogitanda sunt potius quā dicenda ne forte quod ex iis verbis aliquatenus dignum concepit anima non explicet lingua Aug. Oratio est abominantis remabsurdam indignam nam interrogando quidnam faciat Christus quasi manū illi injicit Calv. in locum Interrogatio admirantis detrectantis tanquam rem absurdam minimeque decentem Piscat in locum feet ver 6 8. would some ministers but seriously sadly ponder this servile act of our Saviour unto his disciples servāts they would not looke with such an eye of scorne neglect as they doe upon their poore brethren over whom they are advanced in this worlds lottery either by others ignorance or their own confidence Pragmaticalnesse rather then any true desert and ability This point of the humility of ministers towards one another our Saviour enforceth from the scope of his whole humiliation and from the last and lowest act thereof his death and passion Math. 20.28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransome for many Seeing Christ who is the King of Kings hath for our sake subjected himselfe as a servant taken upon him the form and nature of a servant done the worke of a servant dyed the * Crucifixion was a death that commonly servants were sentenced unto seldome times freemen whence it is many times noted out by the name of servile supplicium by Tacitus Godwin Rom. Ant. death of a Servant he humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse Phil. 2.8 There is a great deale of reason that as all Christians so all ministers should serve one another by love Gal. 5.13 Looke upon the words foregoing those but now quoted out of Mathew and you may see that Christ brought this his example as a motive whereby first he backs his prohibition of all affectation of Prelacy or domination in his ministers verse 25 26. Secondly he presseth them either unto humility diligence and faithfulnesse in discharge of the worke of their ministry in generall or else more particularly as some thinke unto an humble submission unto their fellow servants in the ministry for the furtherance of that which should be the common designe the salvation of mens soules and in this only he placeth the eminency of a minister vers 26 27. whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister And whosoever will be chiefe among you let him be your servant Those ministers that otherwise have been of great parts and learning have not left behind them so precious a name in the Church of God as those despised ones that have made it their study by submissive service of their brethren to further the common worke Mr Dickson hath another interpretation of these last words with which I have not met in any other and therefore I think it not amiss to acquaint the Reader with it If this command do not prevaile with the ambitious party but he must needs bring forth his ambitious desires then the rest of the Ministers are warranted to diminish of that mans estimation and to account the lesse of him by so much as he is ambitiously inclined to a principality and majority over the rest for so do the words beare let him be your Servant that is let him be so esteemed of and no more If any one among you affect to rule the rost to be a Dominus fac totum expect that his ipse dixit