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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97255	The pastors advocate. Together with the peoples monitor. By R. Junius Gent. Adde this as an appendix to Gods goodnesse and Englands unthankfulnesse. Imprimatur, Tho. Gataker.; Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory. Appendix.	Younge, Richard.	1651 (1651)	Wing Y169; Thomason E1230_2; ESTC R208886	18,505	17

The Pastors Advocate Together with The Peoples MONITOR By R. Junius Gent. Adde this as an Appendix to Gods goodnesse and Englands unthankfulnesse Imprimatur Tho. Gataker SECT I. AS in a Vine what is taken away by pruning from the branches is added unto the fruit so speech saith Plutarch is made more piercing by taking away that which is superfluous And Seneca affirms that instructions pointed with delight pierce the more sharply and stick the more stedfastly For which reasons in speaking of this insuing Subject I will only present my Reader with some loose Pearles filed upon a string or a few skeins of fine Silk close wound up in bottoms which perhaps with a good needle I could have flourished into a far larger Work Nor need it offend any that I more respect the weight and benefit of the matter then the order of handling Much Gold for a little Oare Words and matter close and sweetly couched was not wont to be meanlier but better esteemed § 2. There is a horrid sin spread all over this Nation and lies lurking in the hearts of almost who not which hath not a second like it either to hinder the blessings or draw down the curses and judgements of God upon the whole Land And yet men are so far from thinking it a sin that many possest with a new start-up white devil think it a vertue Namely to contemn rob and persecute the Ministers of the Gospel who above all other men should be honoured respected and rewarded Of this sin a few Notions Aphorismes or Conclusions Only I wish those whom it shall concern would hearken unto me as they would have God another day hearken unto them § 3. Ministers are our Pastors to feed us that depend upon them Ephes 4.11 They are Gods Husbandmen to Till his Ground and Sow his Seed 1 Cor. 3.9 They are Watchmen appointed by God to give us warning of insuing danger Ezek. 3.17 They are Dispensers of the mysteries of the Gospel and deliver to us nothing but what they receive from God 1 Cor. 4.1 They are the Stewards of Gods house to give every man his portion of meat in due season Luke 12.42 They are the light of the world and not only shine forth by a holy life but inlighten us also by their heavenly doctrine Matth. 5.14 They are the salt of the earth to season us with wholesome instruction and exhortation Matth. 5.13 They are Master-builders to edifie us the House of God and body of Christ 1 Cor. 3.10 They are our Captains to fight Gods battels against our spirituall enemies and our Leaders to instruct us in the spirituall Warfare 2 Cor. 9.3 4. They are Gods Embassadors to declare his message to us Ephes 6.20 They are Coworkers together with God in converting and saving our souls 2 Cor. 6.1 1 Cor. 3.9 And should not these be honoured respected and rewarded Yea how can that man have any interest in Christs bloud who is not forced with admiration to say How beautifull are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace bring glad tidings of good things and publish salvation Rom. 10.15 Isa 52.7 St Pauls words are Let them that labour in the word and doctrine if they rule well be accounted worthy of double honour 1 Tim. 5.17 If men did but consider that they cannot be nourished unto eternall life but by the milk of the Word they would rather desire their bodies might be without souls then their Churches without Preachers And the devil that roaring lion is more afraid of such a silly Cock a poor faithfull Minister then all the other great Beasts Yet I tremble to think how little they are regarded § 4. The twelve heads of Israel as Reverend and Judicious Doctor Hall thinks would never have written their names in their Rods so willingly but in hope they might be chosen to the dignity of the Priesthood If they all the Princes had not thought it an high honour been ambitious of the preserment they had never so much envied the Office of Aaron What then shall we think of this change Is the Evangelical Ministration of less worth then the Leviticall Whiles the Testament is better is the service worse How is it that the great think themselves too good for this imployment How is it that under the Gospel men are disparaged with that which honoured them under the Law that their ambition and our scorn should meet in one subject § 5. In Jeroboams time the lowest of the people were made Priests whom they resemble that make Tradesmen their Ministers And now Priests 〈◊〉 made the lowest of the people In all things the Minister is held the ●●●●nest of the Parish till it comes to any Tax or Payment and then they will honour him so farre as to rank him with an Alderman And what is the issue they that would study Divinity above all other Arts when they look upon the contempt beggery and vexation that the Ministry undergo turn to Law Physick Trades or any thing rather then they will enter into this contemptible Calling But O the sordidness of such who think the term Minister contemptible when even Christ himself who must save them if ever they be saved cals himself a Minister Matth. 20.28 But let them mock on like those ill-bred children to the Prophet 2 King 2.23 24. Isaac shall be Heir when Ishmael shall be turned out of doors For as He that despiseth the poor either in estate or impotency of minde or body despiseth God that made him Prov. 17.5 so he that despiseth a man for being a Minister or for the graces of God appearing in him despiseth and almost despighteth Christ himself and the very Spirit of God which made him so § 6. But secondly they not only slight their Function but they rob them of their maintenance and that two wales First Their Patrons Sacrilegious and Atheisticall Impropriators rob them perhaps of three parts of their livelihood in carrying away the principall Tithes for they have no more right thereunto then to the Cloak on my back Nor is this all for many a cursed Patron and pattern of Atheisme holds a Benifice vacant in his hands till he hath sounded many Chapmen with a Who gives more And then if Balaams Asse can but dung him silver enough he will sell him all the souls in the Parish For he looks more to the gifts of the hand then to the gifts of the heart and had rather lose his inheritance in Heaven then let Christ have his inheritance on Earth I need not tell you that when Judas is the Patron Simon Magus must be the Priest Or if the Patron be a Formalist or Good fellow so must his Chaplain be If the Chaplain be Papisticall or Atheisticall his Clark must be so too At least if the Minister be conformable and Learned it matters not though he be lewd But let me give you this hint That Judas with his Quid vos dabitis mihi on the one