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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65764	The pastors charge and cure, or, A sermon first preached in Latine at Oxford and afterwards translated by the author the preaching of which created the author much trouble, and in the winding up of all, suspension from his ministery, and thereupon inforcement to leave his native countrey / by Nath. White, pastor of a congregation at summer islands.	White, Nathaniel, 17th cent.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1798; ESTC R33619	34,854	42

THE PASTORS CHARGE and CURE OR A Sermon at first preached in Latine at Oxford and afterwards translated by the Author The preaching of which created the Author much trouble and in the winding up of all suspension from his Ministery and thereupon inforcement to leave his native Countrey 2 Chron. 36. vers 14 15.16 Moreover all the chief of the Priests the people transgressed very much polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place But they mocked the Messengers of the Lord and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord rose against his people till there was no remedy 1 Thess 2.15 16. The Jewes killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and they have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sin alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost Non est delicata in Deum secura confessio qui in me credit debet sanguinem suum fundere Hieron By Nath. White Pastor of a Congregation at Summer Islands Published according to Order London printed by Matth. Simmons in Aldersgate street 1645. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL CORNELIUS HOLLAND Esquire A worthy member of the Honorable House of Commons Grace and Peace be multiplied RIght honoured Sir I have but two things to say unto you and I have done The first is why I published this Sermon The second why I dedicated it to your selfe For the first the Reasons are of two sorts some negative others affirmative Negative 1. It is not any exalted thought of its worth or excellency that hath prickt me on to publish it For I look upon it as the off-spring of the weakest and unworthiest of those that keep watch upon the walls of Jerusalem Nor is it that I may uncover the Sepulchres of the dead and represent their exorbitancies unto the eye of the world which have already come under the strict examination and severe censure of the righteous Judge of all the world a Pascitur tavivis liv●● post fata quiescit Affirmative But 1. that this present and succeeding Ages may see that the corruptions of Church government and Governours upholden then in our land and the corruptions of Ministers too much connived at have been witnessed to be unlawfull by which it shall appeare that the servants of the Lord have not through base cowardize betrayed the cause of Christ but witnessed the truth against his adversaries 2. That it may appeare how dangerous a thing it is to persecute any for some smal deviation from the path paved by Authority For was not the chiefe thing for which I suffered the confounding of Bishops and Presbyters Was it not for affirming that they were ejusdem dignitatis potestatis of the same dignity and power which was at that time contrary to Law though consonant to truth b Ordinis politiae quidem causa inte●eos qui●● docend mun●● iniunctum 〈◊〉 unus aliis pr● tre potest S●d dignita●● aut potestat●● gradum an● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i●●●● Ministros 〈◊〉 gamus esse●● 1. quia pri●●● matum Ch●●stus ex professe impugn●t Luk. 22.25 Joh. 13 13● 2. Quia 〈◊〉 ius concess●●● est a Chri●●● omnibus Matth. 18. Joh. 20 21. 3. Quia superioritatis invectio primum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mox Tyranni●●● pe●● pseudoepiscopos pseudarchiepiscopos pseudopatriarchas omnem Ecclesiasticam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ac tandem ipsant Eclesiam labefactavit Bucan Instit Theolog. de Minist Loc. 42. p 507. Yet who now seeth it not who now confesseth it not to be a truth so that innocent truth was then enforced to put on the hatefull garments of falshood and as such to suffer And may it not be so again if caution be not used O! that the consideration of this very particular might be a means of rendring our honorable and renowned Patriots one of which you are abundantly tender in such cases and sedulously circumspect that such persecution be avoided lest this Age and Government insisting in the crooked paths of the former they both partake of the same if not worse plagues and judgments 3. That I might vindicate mine innocency from the vulnerating talons of such greedy Harpies as had seized on it at their will For some there are c Insigne Christopher Pits and Mr. Barough in Summer Islands where now the Lord hath stretched the line of my habitation who having transported themselves from our Islands hither to negotiate their affaires and returning back to us again reported me to be a troubler of the place where I formerly lived Now certain I am I never gave any just cause to be so accouted of any so reported of by them for I neither have lent on usury nor have men lent to me on usury as the Prophet spake of himselfe d Ier. 15.10 True it is this Sermon I preached which I verily beleeve did trouble some and for which I was troubled but whether this will amount to somuch as to render me obnoxious to such a report or worthy to be accounted a man of strife and a man of contention I shall desire your Worship to judge when you have read it The second thing is why I dedicated it to your self Reasons there are many some are of publick others are of privat concernment Those of publick concernment are such as these 1. You are one of those Worthies of whom it may be truly said as it was of good Jonathan You have wrought with God at this time and you have wrought great salvation in our Israel e Sam. 14.4 5 par●● sunt 〈◊〉 soris n●si 〈◊〉 confilium 〈◊〉 which renders you with them honoured in the hearts of my self and of all those that feare the Lord And you with them are the more emine at in this that you have sate out the Apostasies and unhappy fallings of so many preserved by the power of Christ of whom it may be said as the Apostle saith in another case They went out from you but they were not of you for if they had been of you they would no doubt have continued with you but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of you f 1 Ioh. 2.19 Ride on worthy Sir with the residue of those renowned Senatours prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness remembring and beleeving that when the great work of God is finished the names of those shall be sought for that have acted for him and it shall be said What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this g Hest 6.3 You that work both for God and the Country shall be recorded both in the Chronicle of heaven