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A93787	A caveat against seducers: as it was preached by Richard Standfast, Mr. of Arts, and rector of Christ-Church in Bristol, whereunto are annexed the blind mans meditations. By the same author.	Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5204; Thomason E1816_2; ESTC R203605	25,969	77

from St. Jude for he complains of some dangerous men that were in his daies and amongst other their ill qualities which hee there reckons up hee saith That they did despise dominions and speak evil of dignities vers 8. And hee denounceth a woe against them for being cruel like Cain and covetous like Balaam and seditious like Corah vers 11. It should seem by St. Jude that they were factious disturbers of that comely order which God had settled in his Church for though by dominions v. 8. we may understand the Civil Power yet reason wills that by dignities we understand the Ecclesiastical Order how else could they be said to perish in the gain-saying of Corah for if there had not been some dignities and eminencies in the Church of the Christians even in those most Primitive times as well as there were of old in the Church of the Jews it can never sink into my head how it is possible for any man to perish in the gainsaying of Corab now in the times of the Gospel for this was the heart-root of Corahs sin hee sought to equal the Levite with the Priest and so became souly guilty of that fault of taking too much upon him of which hee falsly accused others as doth most plainly appear by Numb 16.7 9 10. This was the cause of their gathering together against the Lord vers 11. Corah being but a Levite would needs be a Priest as if in these our daies hee that were but a Presbyter should take upon him to be a Bishop this was the main of the matter Indeed hee did oppose Moses as well as Aaron but Moses came in only by the by for the grand design lay wholly against Aaron I do not think but that Corah could have been contented to have let Moses alone if Moses would have been contented to have left Aaron alone but if Moses be like to take Aarons part Moses must look to share in Aarons portion for rather than Corah will not oppose the Priest hee will oppose the Prince too and rather than not prevail against Aaron hee will strike at Moses also So that Moses was brought in more for Aarons sake than his own And as for Dathan and Abiram they were meerly drawn in And 't is most probable that Corah stirred them up against Moses chiefly for this end that hee might the better ingage them for himself against Aaron for the main plot was against him and the whole design was in all likelihood contrived by Corah 't was hee that was the head of the party all they did but march under his colours nor is it called the matter of Dathan but the matter of Corah Numb 16.19 See also Numb 16.5 11. and Numb 26.9 and 27.3 Where by the way observe the joynt Interest between Moses and Aaron The design against Aaron reacheth to Moses too and the opposing of Moses takes in Aaron also Thus no Aaron no Moses and if Moses be like to fall Aaron is not like to stand The King and the Priest go down together Lam. 2.6 But now see the issue of this matter of Corah While Corah sought to remove the bounds between the Priest and the Levite there were others that were as busie with the same tools to pull down the pale between the Levite and the People and by laying all in common to bring all to confusion If the Levite will own no Priest the People will own no Levite or thus If the Levites will all be Priests the People will be ready to think that they may all as well be Levites and that all the Congregation are holy as well as they even every man of them In so much that now God himself was fain to interpose in the behalf of that Tribe which hee had set apart for himself and by miracle to maintain his own election The miracle was wrought in the Rod of Aaron with lower second and third stories for though it had of it self neither root nor sap yet by the mighty power of God that Rod only among all the rest of the Rods budded buds and bloomed blossomes and brought forth ripe Almonds Numb 17.8 By which miracle as God did testifie his chusing and owning of that Tribe above all the other Tribes for his own more immediate service So by the manner thereof hee gave them at once both an Emblem of Order and also a Pledge for Succession of Order for blossomes are in a degree above buds and Almonds above blossomes and of Succession too for buds were ready to grow up into blossomes and blossomes to knit and ripen into Almonds when the old Almonds were dropt off And therefore well worthy was this Rod to be laid up in store and to be kept for a token being an Emblem of Order and a Pledge for Succession as well as a testimony of the choice of God And as the Censors of Corah were made bread plates for a covering for the Altar for a memorial unto the children of Israel that no stranger which was not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord that hee be not as Corah and as his company Numb 16.40 For a token against the Rebels Numb 17.10 So might that Rod also serve for a memorial that no stranger which was not of the Tribe of Levi presume to meddle with the things of the Tabernacle lest hee be like that mutinous Congregation By all which if it be duly weighed you may easily judge if I have not reason to say That they who can indure no Superiority in the Church are suspicious persons Thirdly Revilers and opposers of those Ministers and that Ministry of the Gospel which hath been settled in the Church by the Holy Ghost in all ages downward even from the Apostles daies are to be looked upon as Impostors and Seducers It is no marvel if deceivers cry out against those that are the duly ordained Ministers of the Gospel for these are the rubs that lye in their way and that strike off their Chariot wheels and cause them to drive on their designs but heavily And till they can prevail with their simple Auditors to lay these aside they will not be able to do any feats amongst them Are not the Ministers compared to Shepherds and to Salt and why so unless it be to shew what use they are of even in this behalf scil to secure us from wolves and to preserve us from putrefaction And experience makes it good for when once the Sheep grow weary of the Shepherd as useless or burdensome they quickly become a prey to Wolves and Foxes and if once wee can be perswaded to throw this Salt into a corner those flyes will quickly be buzzing about our ears to fill our brains with worms and our minds with rottenness Observe that passage of the Apostle Ephes 4.11 12 13 14. that you may the better take heed how you sleight the Ministers of the Gospel all the daies of your life God gave some Apostles