Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37268	A particular ansvver to a book intituled, The clergy in their colours	J. D. (John Davy)	1651 (1651)	Wing D443; ESTC R14910	35,669	50

own understanding In p. 12. you tell us how hardly people could be drawn from the good opinion they have of their Teachers and the Teachers themselves Pope-like will not submit for many inconveniencies To what I pray you should they submit for you do not tell us what Should the Moon stay her course because a Wolf barks at her Or the builders of Jerusalem desist from their labour because Sanballat and Tobia mock at their proceeding Doth Christ teach us to pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth more labourers into his harvest and must they that are entred withdraw themselves upon your malevolent perswasion Must the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts be left like the field of Solomons sluggard What be there no souls still to be cal'd home by the preaching of the word none to be confirmed none to be comforted O Sir whatever you boast of your own experience had you ever been truly sensible of a naturall condition felt the dolorous throws of a new birth and apprehended the soul-ravishing comfort of Gods Spirit speaking true peace to your conscience which by this despised preaching is daily wrought in the hearts of Gods chosen you would say with them How beautifull are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things and with the beleeving Galatians be ready to pull out your eies for them whose eies you would rather have pulled out Witness your envying their Profit and Credit while you affirm them to have no right to either Nor is it a Tithe matter you talk of though that but for covetousness sake need not have been questioned but p. 13. you allow them not the benevolence of the people and so would at once rob them of their respect and maintenance and the people also of that liberality that might redound to their account in the day of the Lord. But why have they no right to either As for their Credit the Apostle saith They that labour in the word and doctrine are to be accounted worthy of double honour It 's worthy our observation that Honour is here subjected in the people as being their duty to give it Are to be accounted for Honor est in honerante non in honorato so that if it be the peoples duty to give it here is honour compleat 1 Tim. 5.17 It will be long ere you envy their pains if you hold in this minde who might therefore answer you as Marius is by Salust in his Jugurthine war brought in speaking to the people of Rome Invident honori meo ergo invideant labori innocentiae periculis etiam meis quoniam per haec illam cepi And for their maintenance they have such evidence as no man can shew for any other inheritance mens laws may alter and Proprieties be Impropriated but God's more sure then that of the Medes and Persians altereth not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 9.14 The Lord hath ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel And from the sixth verse of that Chapter to the fourteenth he argueth to the same purpose And the Spirit of God foreseeing what shifts men were like to invent whereby to debar Ministers from their due and themselves from their duty adds an especial caveat to that precept Gal. 6.6 as worthy Mr Dyke quem honoris causa nomino in his eximious Tractate of the hearts deceitfulness hath observed Cap. 17. p. 234. for having said in the sixth verse Let him that is taught in the word make him that taught him partaker of all his goods to prevent such witty excuses as might hinder the sincerity of performance of that duty he adds in the seventh verse Be not deceived God is not mocked Besides it were unreasonable 1. That they who are imployed for us should not be maintained by us The labourer is worthy of his hire It was spoken by our Lord to them who took no more pains for preaching but to travel and speak and not to study as these do 2. That so much expence as is requisit to fit men for the Ministry should have no recompence A man that hath served an Apprenticeship seven years hath a Calling to live on but he that hath spent three times seven in Study shall by your allowance have no reward for all his expence of monies time or labour which how it can stand with that royall Law and consent of all civilized people To do as we would be done by let any reasonable man judge Perhaps you will say they are not the men or they have some other ill qualification rendring them incapable of what privilege otherwise were assigned to them Why but these are the Dispensers of the Word and Sacraments these are they that watch over our souls it is by their Ministry that God convinceth converteth confirmeth his people and to whom else can it be applied You complain of defects in the execution of their Office be it granted yet let them have therewithall the allowance due to all mortall men from us at least and they may pass for currant in the balance of a Christian judgement Very hainous were the sins of Ely's sons 1 Sam. 2.22 24. and yet the people are held guilty of sin for abhorring the offering of the Lord. And Christ made great complaint of them who sat in Moses chair in his time who yet commands the people to hear and obey them whom yet he convinceth of errours in the doctrine it self Mat. 23. Is it not strange reasoning that because a man is not yet near his journies end he should therefore sit down and go no further and yet what less doth this sound Because our Ministers have not yet attained to so clear knowledge of the minde of God in Scripture as to hold it forth so distinctly as some of the people do or at least think they do understand it let there therefore be no more Study and no more preaching Why how then shall we come by more knowledge you say by searching the Scriptures one might think then the Eunuch should have had no great need of Philip. 'T is true indeed as Luther said no matter if all our books were burnt so the holy Scriptures were well learned and rightly understood but do you by bare reading meditation and comparing Scripture with Scripture without any help of tongues and other Histories give a satisfactory answer to many questions to which the Scriptures give occasion of enquiry Et eris mihi magnus Apollo I will acknowledge you then with Apollos in the Acts to be a man mighty in the Scriptures indeed Or if this might be supposed by your self yet we know some men will not many men cannot most men do not spend so much time about them and if your own conscience might speak freely it would confess That for the knowledge you have attained to in Divinity you are next to God beholden to the labours of the Clergy But p. 13. This