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A07061	A sermon preached at the consecration of the right reuerend father in God, Richard Senhouse, Lord Bishop of Carlile in the Metropoliticall Church of York, the six and twentith of September, 1624. By Richard Marshe Master of Arts, and vicar of Bristall in Yorke-shire.	Marshe, Richard, d. 1663.	1625 (1625)	STC 17470; ESTC S114045	20,940	39

if the guests will not come 2. Cor. 4.3 it is because they will not not because they have not had other servants which have tried all waies to winne them and to bring them to the wedding Diversity of gifts and difference of administration heapes of Teachers flocks of companions the Word preached in season and out of season the meat fitted for everie pallat and made savorie such as your soules cannot but love milk for some and stronger meat for others our calling adorned in everie one if yee would but see it eyther with gravitie or zeale or societie or simplicitie or learning or happinesse of invention or strength of judgement or faithfulnesse of memorie or gracefulnesse of deliverie something or other I say if you would but see it to commend the messenger to further the message must make you all confesse that the fault is not in him that sends nor yet so much as the world would have it imagined in them that are sent in such abundance and varietie How chances it then that we speed no better I will tell you We can speake but alas to what end is it to beate the ayre We can write but to what end should we stand writing in the dust for the winde to scatter it or frame our letters upon the gliding water Our calls our exhortations flie in the winde like Sibillaes Oracles our Sermons are like Songs in the night you will heare a little but not lose your sleepe The Text sayes he sends other servants Ieremy saies hee sends all his servents The world thinks he sends too manie Your table is made a snare unto you and that which should have beene for your advantage is an occasion of your falling you have taken a surfet of the message and can no longer endure wholsome doctrine our message is the same and your entertainment is the same all is lost all is spilt because we are forced to tunne up all our new wine into your old bottles Againe he sends other servants Other in qualitie and againe alios gradibus others also in authoritie the meannesse of the messenger is sometimes disadvantage to the message and therefore in the former parable last of all he sent his sonne to see if peradventure they would reverence him And as the sonne differs much from the servants so among the servants wee cannot imagine but there must be an imparity and difference of degree God sends for his guests Num. 22.15 as Balack did for Balam yet againe moe and more honourable some that are worthie of double honour 1. Tim. 5.17 and whose office it is to rule well as well as to labour in the Word doctrine and to have the rule over you Heb. 13.7 17. as well as to speake unto you the word of God For sending and sending againe servants other servants still servants in the plurall number to let us know that they are many whom he sends who unlesse hee wipe his nose upon his sleeve would imagine as paritie an isotimie among so many God is the God of order and parity is the mother of confusion confusion of destruction Oh let it fall upon the enemies of God that so their forces distracted and disordered may be soone defeated whilest Gods Church is alwayes acies ordinata Cant. 6. as an armie under Banners where order is most serverely kept and who repose much much of their safety in their discipline Thus under the Law it is well seene how thou my God wentest in the Sanctuary There were Levites under Priests Vid. Num. 3. 1. Chron. 24. Nehem. 12. Matt. 2. and Priests above Priests and one high Priest over all that Province I thinke wee could be content to yeeld the Pope so much but vastos non implet hiatus a Province or a Patriarchship will not serve him Prince of the Princes of Levi Num. 3.32 and above all the Iudges in Ierusalem whether Priests or secular 2. Chron. 19. in all matters of the Lord. And this authoritie by your leave he had for order government and not as a type of Christs regall and judiciarie power who was not a Priest after the order of Aaron but of Melchisedech Now as there was distinction and degrees in the Leviticall Clergie where some had authoritie to command others a necessity to obey every one kept his distance so it cannot be otherwise among the Ministers of the new Covenant but having gifts differing according to the grace given some must wayte on their ministring Rom. 12.6 7 8. and some rule with diligence and as among the guests some are advanced with Friend sit up higher Luc. 14.10 so among the servants which fetch in the guests some stand higher and neerer their Master and if anie will exalt himselfe he must be made with shame to take a lower roome This difference in authoritie and degree is necessarie both for the guests and for the messengers For the guests it is necessary there should be some enabled to raise up seede to their dead brethren and that the Church should have children instead of their Fathers they were no children but fathers who first applyed these words of the Psalme to this purpose whom shee may make Princes in all lands Aug. Hieron And further that some should have the keyes of discipline to see that holy things be not cast to Dogs to come among offendors with a rod to cut off such as are unquiet to deliver them that are scandalous Gal. 5.12 1 Cor. 5.5 Gal. 5.9 to Satan and by all meanes to provide that a little leaven doe not sowre the whole lump And as for the guests so for the messengers quis custodiet ipsos custodes is a good question in the Satyr there had need be some to keepe the Keepers to oversee the Seers as in a great Harvest there are some servants who not only work themselves but also oversee the rest of the labourers Suppose the Labourers become loyterers suppose there eyther want messengers or the messengers wander from the right way suppose pastores turned to raptores Bernard Psalm 144.8 servants and shepheards to theeves and robbers suppose their mouthes talke of vanity and their right hands become right hands of uniquity suppose the Prophets become Foxes suppose an accusation exhibited against a Presbyter Ezech. 13.4 1 Tim. 5.19 1 Tim. 1.3 Tit. 1.11 suppose some doe teach other doctrine suppose some teach for filthy lucre things they ought not suppose there be some foolish questions and contentions afoote Tit. 3.9 Acts 20.30 suppose some speake perverse things to draw disciples after them must there not needs be a Timothy or a Titus to give hands to ordaine Elders to receive accusations to avoyd to prohibite to stoppe the mouthes of some Tit. 2.15 to speake exhort rebuke with all authoritie There must needs be in the Church some who have both power of ordination and jurisdiction to send forth