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A12793	The sale of salt. Or The seasoning of soules Namely such, as for whom the chapmen here doe come, and whom the author, which taketh the name of a salter, is willing, what in him lieth, to season with the salt of the Word, leauing the successe to the Lord, without whose blessing in such works we can do nothing. Written by Iohn Spicer, minister of the word of God at Leckhamsteed in the county of Buckingham.	Spicer, John.	1611 (1611)	STC 23101; ESTC S117790	175,913	412

past to try vs and seek the ground of our hearts Psal 139.23 proue and know our thoughts consider if there be any wickednesse in vs rid vs out of it and lead vs in the true way that bringeth to the true life wee beg these things and whatsoeuer thou knowest needfull for vs and thy holy Church in his name and for his sake which is the way the truth and the life saying as he hath taught vs Our father which art in heauen c. Chap. When these or any other that haue offended as who hath not haue made these or the like prayers confessing their sinnes with true sorrow of heart what shall they take to comfort their hearts againe if you haue no softer salt I must seeke further for I feare this salt will nothing but fret them Salt There are diuers sorts of Salt to be had at Bible-Spring some is sharp that ●●rueth to consume grosse humors some is more milde hath vertue to heale wounds but because some Physitions setting down what is good for the heart say maces is best of all Hospit p. 42. Cant. 2.5 and the Spowse in the Canticles desireth to bee comforted with apples you may call that which I shall now deliuer vnto you apples or maces or wine and milke as the Prophet Esay calleth that which hee deliuereth where he maketh his cry saying Ho euery one that is thirsty come yee to the waters Esay 55.12 and yee that haue no siluer come buy and eate come I say buy wine and milke without siluer and without money Chap. If men must not pay money for this milke and wine with what must they buy it Salt He telleth them in the second and third verses saying Hearken diligently vnto mee and eate that which is good let your soule delight in fatnesse incline your eares and come vnto mee heare and your soule shall liue Chap. It should seeme by his calling for hearing and eating with delight that it is the word of God or some other spirituall gift which is there meant by waters wine milke and fatnesse Salt Some by waters vnderstand the waters of grace in this present life Nicola d●lyra and of glory in the heauenly Citty to bee giuen by Christ himselfe according as hee himselfe saith Hee which shall drinke of the waters which I shall giue him shall neuer be more a thirst ●oh 4.14 but the water which I shal giue him shall be in him a fountaine of water springing vp to eternall life By wine and milke the same writer vnderstandeth the good things of grace and glory Benagr gl●● and by fatnesse the fatnesse of grace likewise Chap. Well let me haue some of this spirituall nourishing wine and milke or whatsoeuer you list to call it Salt Yee shall and first I will beginne where the aforesaid Prophet made his cry Seeke the Lord while he may bee found Esay 55.6 call yee vpon him while he is neere ● Let the wicked forsake his waies and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations returne vnto the Lord and he wil haue mercy vpon him and to our God for he is very ready to forgiue My soule praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name 〈◊〉 103.8 ● My soule praise thou the Lord forget not all his benefits 5 Which forgiueth all thine iniquities and healeth all thine infirmities 6 Which redeemeth the life frō the graue and crowneth thee with mercy and compassion 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy slow to anger and of great kindnesse 9 He will not alwaies chide neither keepe his anger for euer hee hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities 18 The louing kindnesse of the Lord indureth for euer euer vpon them that feare him c. think vpon his commandements to do them Chap. Yea but these for whom I come haue not feared the Lord nor made any reckoning of his commandements Salt This which I deliuer vnto you now as Apples for comfort is to bee set before them when as I said they are well seasoned with the salt of the law containing a fearefull curse against all the trangressors of the same and so beeing brought vnto a feeling of their sinne are entred into the feare of God which is the beginning of wisedome Pro. 9.10 Chap. Then belike those which feare not God how wise soeuer they seeme to themselues haue not trodden one step in the path of true wisedome Salt No doubt of that Chap. On then Salt Who is a God like vnto thee that taketh away iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage Mich. 7 18. hee retaineth not his wrath for euer because mercy pleaseth him He will turne againe and haue compassion vpon vs he will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sinnes into the bottome of the sea When the wicked turneth away from his wickednesse that hee hath committed Ezek. 18.28 and doth that which is lawfull and right he shal saue his soule aliue 28 Because hee considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that hee hath committed hee shall surely liue and not die 32 I desire not the death of him that dyeth saith the Lord God cause therefore one another to returne and liue ye Shee shall bring forth a sonne Mat. 1.11 and thou shall call his name Iesus for he shall saue his people from their sinnes And loe a voyce came from heauen saying 3.17 this is my beloued sonne in whom I am ●ell pleased I am not come to call the righteous 9.13 but ●●nners to repentance Saint Paul saith this is a true saying Tim 1.15 ●y all meanes worthy to bee reciued that ●esus Christ came into the world to saue ●●nners Come vnto me all ye that are laden mea●ing with the burthen of their sinnes and will ease you Mat. 11.28 Likewise Luk. 15.10 I say vnto you there is ioy in ●e presence of the Angels of God for one ●●nner that repenteth 31 It was meete that we should make merry be glad for this thy brother was dead ●s aliue againe and hee was lost but hee is ●ound As Moses lift vp the serpent in the wil●ernesse Ioh. 3 14. so must the Sonne of man bee lift ●p that whosoeuer beleeueth in him ●hould not perish but haue euerlasting life We beleeue saith Saint Peter through ●he grace of our Lord Iesus Christ to bee ●aued euen as they do Acts 14 11. And it was the same Peter that said Acts 10.43 To ●im giue all the Prophets witnesse that ●hrough his name all that beleeue in him ●hall receiue remission of sinnes Chap. Are those then that beleeue in Christ pardoned and saued whether they feare God or feare him not whether they serue sinne or righteousnesse Salt What friend Chapman dost thou thinke

others that eate now and then ei●her at home or in tra●elling by the way for healths sake warily and sparingly and those ●hat do it commonly offensiuely and con●emptuously still refusing fish and calling ●or flesh Salt Though gracious Princes no doubt of it as appeereth by licences do wish those that rule vnder them not to deale hardly with the weaker sort and such as feare God in things that be of themselues indifferent least summum ius should become summa iniuria too much law-pressing too much life crushing yet it is good for subiects both victualers their guests not to presume too much on pardons nor do any thing royoteously or in contempt of lawes but if in any point they faile in their obedience to examine themselues what reason they can re●der of their doing if they should be called to an account and to take heed that their conscience condemne them not inwardly for that which they seeme to allow outwardly but my good Chapman it should appeare by your talke you haue bene at Bible-Spring where is store of the best salt there I maruaile you brought none from thence for your purpose but come to mee Chap. Hearing that you were in towne and had salt of sundry sorts I thought good to try some of it to see whether it were right or no. Salt Come on then take this first Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Rom. 13.1 for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Submit your selues vnto all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as vnto the Superiour or vnto gouernors as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euill doers and for the praise of them that doe well Chap. If as S. Paul saith there bee no power but of God and if as S. Peter saith we must submit our selues to all manner ordinances of man then it should seeme we must obey them in euery thing least in disobeying them we disobey the ordinance of God Salt You are to vnderstand that if God which hath the hearts of Kings in his hand set vp a power that regardeth not his lawes but comandeth that which is contrary vnto them hating his faithfull messengers and making much of faithlesse flatterers that hee doth this partely to make knowne his wrath towards such as make more account of ly●s then of the truth partly that there might be some tryal wherby Mycheas with his plaine speeches and bread of affliction 1 Kin. 22. 11.17 might be knowne from Zedkijah and his false hornes and faithfull Daniell discorned from those that drew on Darius to seale to their wicked decree Dan. 6.8.9 Chap. But when that decree was sealed was it not to bee taken as the Kings ordinance Salt Whose ordinance soeuer it was Daniell was not to submit himselfe because such submission was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Peter saith it was not for the Lord it was not for his honour it was not agreeable to his will it was flat against the first commandement and in very deed if he should haue refrained from asking any thing at the hands of his God for the space of 30 daies yea if in that captiuity hee should haue asked any such petition of the King any one day as he ought to haue asked of his God he had not onely made the King an Idoll but also kept such a silence as had beene more fit for one that faileth away from God then for him whom the King himselfe confessed to bee a man that alwaies serued his God ●an 6.20 For you must vnderstand that by petitions in that place is not ment such as subiects make to their Princes to moue them to grant some thing that is in their owne power as if Daniel had framed a petition or supplication to the King himselfe to desire that of his Highnesse which hee required of the chiefe of the Eunuches that is that he might not defile himselfe with the portion of the Kings meate and wine for that petition had bene lawfull But if Daniell had yéelded to make any such petitions to the King as no doubt he vsed to make to the Almighty praying either that he or his brethren might doe nothing in that captiuity that might offend his gracious Maiesty or that his anger and wrath might be turned away from his Citty Ierusalem Dan. 9.16.17.18 that hee would cause his face to shine vpon his sanctuary for his great tender mercies and that hee would heare forgiue consider and doe it without deferring c. If I say he had yéelded to make such or the like petitions to the King it had bene grosse idolatry and a token that hee put his trust in man which is forbidden as in many other places so in Psal 146. v. 3. Put not your trust in Princes nor in any child of man for there is no helpe in him In a word that man of God knew well that such a yeelding would haue beene a reioycing to his enemies and a greater torment to his conscience then the Lyons could haue brought to his carcase Chap. But I maruaile that Daniel should think the Kings portions would defile him fith our Sauiour saith Math. 15.110 That which goeth into the mouth defileth not a man Salt It is true that meate and drinke and such like of themselues as they are the creatures of God do no more defile a man then the torches tapers crisme oile tunicles chisibles holy-water holy-bread whereof a learned and reuerend Father In defense of the Apol p. 24. Printed 1570. sometimes a Bishop in this land writeth thus Verily Maister Harding we hate not any of all these things for wee know they are the creatures of God but you haue so misused them or rather defiled and bewrayed them with your superstitions and so haue with the same mocked and deceiued Gods people that we can no longer continue them without great conscience It is the abuse then of meates drinks garments and such like that hurteth not the lawfull vse of them Chap. It is not like that Daniel would haue abused any meates or drinkes whatsoeuer Salt I grant it But you must remember that Daniel liued in a time wherein the people of God were not permitted to eate of many things which the Christian man is allowed to eate of It was not said to Daniel eate what thou wilt as to Peter kill and eate what God hath cleansed count thou not common or vncleane by which vision and voyce Peter was giuen to vnderstand that not onely meates forbidden by the Law being now clensed and meateable might be vsed Act. 9.13.15 but also the Gentiles such as Cornelius c. whom before being vncircumcised the Iewes counted vncleane were to heare of Christ that through faith in his bloud they might be purged and cleansed from their sinnes Daniel I say had not this liberty Chap. Then it should seeme

snátch away their goods to maintaine their owne diet and rayment that they kill the fat when they lay heinous matters and capitall crimes to the charge of the richer sort that so they may come by their substance that they feede not the flock by example of good life with the word of sound doctrine that they strengthned not the weake when they laboured not to hinder those which are prone apt to vice the they healed not the sicke when they did reuoke call backe such as were accustomed to euil the they bound not vp such as were broken through impatiency whē they did not kindly comfort them that they caused not such as went astray to returne when they brought not againe to the true worshipping of God that which was driuen away from it by idolatry that they sought not that which was lost when they did not raise vp such as despared by promising them par●on through the mercy of God that they ruled them with cruelty when they laid such burthens vpon them as they were not able to beare that the Shéep were dispersed without a Shepheard when they were scattered through diuers vices wanting good gouernment teaching that they were deuoured of all the beasts of the field when they became a prey for diuels cruell aduersaries such as were the Assirians and Chaldeans Chap. I see diuers men haue diuers expositions Salt They may so and all profitable so long as they swerue not from the Analogy of that faith and doctrine which is taught in holy writ but if you will haue any more 〈◊〉 Ezechiels salt here it is Thus saith the Lord God Eze. 34.10 Behold I come against the Sheepheards and will require the sheepe at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the sheepe Chap. Stay salter stay Salt Why so Chap. Tell mee I pray thee why doth the Lord say hee will cause them to cease from feeding if they feede themselues and not the flocke they need not be stayed but rather spurred Salt If one should take vpon him to make you a watch which when you haue tryed it you finde to bee starke nought would not you say this man shall make me no more watches Chap. Yes Sal. But your meaning is hee should marre you no more for though he tooke vpon him to make a good one yet hee made 〈◊〉 had one and that is marring Chap. True Salt So many stand in the place of watchmen which winke when they should wake and many in the roome of féeders which rather serue then féede the meaning therfore of the Lord is this he wil not suffer them to féede his Shéepe in such sort any longer Chap. Answere 〈◊〉 to one question more then I wil trouble you with no more questions In the foresaid Chapter as I remember the Lord saith And yee my sheep the sheepe of my pasture are men are all men the Lords sheep Salt Hearken what hee himselfe hath said by the mouth of his onely Sonne Io 10 27 28 My sheepe heare my voyce and I know them and they follow me Chap. No doubt but it shall go wel with such sheepe Salt Marke what followeth And I will giue vnto them eternall life and they shall neuer perish neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand Chap. I see then if one will bee a true member of Christ and enioy life euerlasting he must heare Christ his voyce and follow him But what if some Iudas preach must I follow him Salt Sée you forget your selfe you told mee you would trouble mee with no more questions take heed you be not one of those that are more forward in asking questions then obeying precepts They which heard Iudas were not to follow him in treason Math. 10.4 Mat 14.17 he wrought to his owne condemnation but in the doctrine he taught for their saluation for he was sent 〈◊〉 ●●ch as well as Peter Math. 6.16 who was not to be followed when hee cursed and sware that hee knew not the man but in confessing Christ to be the sonne of the liuing God Chap. If Peter bee not to bee followed when he did euill why should wee follow any man that is a Deputy for the Diuill If any man dispensed with this late pestilent practise with powder hee deserueth rather to be called a searcher for salt-peter then a successor of Peter and not a Vicar of Christ but an aid to Antichrist but let these Salt-peter-men goe or rather shut them vp lest they worke our woe and let me haue some more of that salt for which I came Salt You shall I will giue you pastors according to mine heart Iet 3 15 they shall féede you with knowledge and vnderstanding happy are they friend Chapman that haue such Pastors These are not like those watchmen and Pastors which are pictured by the Prophet Isaiah Isai 56 10. where hee saith their Watchmen are all blinde 11 they haue no knowledge they are all dumbe dogges they cannot barke they lye and sléepe and delight in slée●ing and these gréedy dogges can neuer haue inough and these Shepheards cannot vnderstand for they all looke to their owne way euery one for his aduantage and for his owne purpose Chap. If any man in the feare of God in a charitable sort should cast this salt vpon any to season them being drowsie dumbe and too greedy ought any man in anger to call him barking dogge and to reckon him in the number of those whom the Apostle meaneth when he saith Beware of Dogges Salt To this I answere that I feare me there is too much doggishnesse euery where For God for his tender mercies sake giue vs more charitable hearts one towards another Loue which is the badge of Christianity is lost wee had néed make haste to séeke it lest the anger of God take vs away before we can finde it Chap. You say well but let mee haue a little more Salt Take heede therefore vnto your selues Act. 10 2● and to all the flocke whereof the holy Ghost hath made you ouerseers to seede the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud Let no man despise thy youth but be vnto thē that beleeue an example in word 1. Tim. 4 1● in Conuersation in Life in Spirit in Faith and in purenesse Till I come giue attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine take héede vnto thy selfe vnto learning continue therein for in so doing thou shalt saue thy selfe and them that heare thee Chap. If it bee so it is good for a Pastour to bee painefull and carefull to bring men to Christ which saueth but go on Salt I charge thee therefore before God and before Iesus Christ 2. Tim. 4. ● which shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and in his Kingdome Preach the word be instant in season to the willing saith the former booke de Pastoribus and out of season that is to