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rest_n	day_n	lord_n	sanctify_v	3,947	5	10.3418	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94752	An inspective for spirituall ingrossures; being presented to a Presbyterian pluralist, and formalist. / By Thomas Tookey M.A. substituted pastor at Thornhaw in Northamptonshire.	Tookey, Thomas, d. 1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1902; Thomason E353_10; ESTC R201079	4,602	8

into any extremity through which the pressures of want will drive him then to fall upon the rock of the sanctuary He had better surely joyn any house to house which also is wofull Isai 5.20 then to ingrosse Gods Temples It was certainly a great distrust of Gods sufficiency that drew both Ananias and his wife Saphyrah into that Reserving which occasioned their lying and thence their punishing A prophane Es●● may as deeply sinne in reaching to himselfe more then his own as in selling of his own They that will be rich so they that will free themselves of poverty too hastily fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish noysome lusts which drown men in Destruction and Perdition 1 Tim. 6.9 10. But the party substituted is unworthy who shall judge of that If the Prelate then none shall be worthy but himselfe though happily the most unworthy But if the substitute be unworthy why should he have any thing to doe there But the substitute is an able godly minister The more right to the entire means Why is such a one wronged we should not rob from a rogue much lesse from a good man Why is that good man so ill rewarded discouraged tempted to halfe it with the peoples soul unto whom he through want of means and power must needs be in great measure subjected Notwithstanding the liveliest encouragements swe●●est quicknings the best and forwardest Ministers too soon grow dull and fagge in their spirituall duties so needlesse and gracelesse are those reservings that break the bruised Reed and quench the flaming Flax and damp the high aspiring sparks of burning Zeale Inspection to the Locall Respects THe circumstantiall disposition of Places in regard of the Propinquity or near adjoyning distance of Parishes is next considerable For where two parishes are so near together as the labour of one Minister may with much conveniencie extend unto them both and the rather where the sweet complyance of a truly willing people addressing themselves so each unto other that the exercises of the ministry may be as powerfull and effectuall as if but one It may be with these as with the two branches Ezechiel 37.16.17 Particular Churches being parishes in great Brittaine were very strangely cut into unequall shreds some think by the mangling shears of Popish shavelings and no lesse unevenly torne into peices and splinters by our first Reformers so that were they permitted to shed and congregate themselves there could not easily be lesse equality in proportions For some parishes are so small and in many respects so inconsiderable that as they say of Vicaridges in Lincolnshire they are such nimble ones that two or three might be borne upon one mans back without danges of breaking and others again are so vast and so remotely 〈◊〉 that though but one parish yet the Minister thereto will necessarily fall into the sinnes and deficiencies of a Non-resident or Pluralist For where people live at that distance that the Minister having but one soule one body and that limited cannot infinitely extend his labours unto all of them nor the people with respect to the spirituall rest in sanctifying the Lords day especially the aged lame and sickly cannot possibly profitably reap the benefit of his labours those people though accounted one parish cannot rightly at one and the same time be the sheep of that one shepheard Inspection to the Temporall Respects THe accidentall condition of the times is the most prevalent Respect with the novell Pluralists of our times The constitution of times is either meanly or extreamly disposed For the first the indifferencie of times hath little influence as to alter or to take any thing valuable from the nature of that act which in it self is meerly sinfull Extremity of times is either to good or evill too true it is that times extreamly flattering Haleyon calmes and Sun-shine gleames operate with wanton stirring wits as with full-fed beasts makes them gad up and down in their own and often out of their own into others Pastures But to speak strictly those times are not therein accounted prosperous Times extreamly evill tempestuous dayes may indeed force silence upon the prudent Amos 5.13 and so for a time admit the absence of a Minister from his people and yet neverthelesse receive fruits from those people in relation to what he hath sowen formerly and in regard of what he stands cordially ready to perform he being not ingaged to another people but keeps at distance only for safety hovering still about the forsaken like the bird about the nest of us young and would lives fain come near but dares not for feare of the vermin whose prey they are become But to take the advantage of the distemperature of the present times with some inferiour respect to security but greater regard to profits which over-poyzing respects will easily bee discovered by the value of the Ingot then to mount himselfe upon the Backs of a people deserted by their former Minister and to exact from them the fruits of that living together with all or any of the sweet of his former place arising since his forsaking them he being no otherwise authorised to this ingrossure but by the temporary distemper The evill of those times are so farre from salving the evill of such Sacrilegious Acts as that both the Acts and the Times are made worse thereby Yea more were the act not sinfull in it selfe yet the design of promotion and advancement diametrically crosse to Gods proceedings in humbling times would taint with impious impurity such like was urged with vehemency against Baruch in his secular aspiring Jer. 45. 1. In whipping times we should bee graciously carefull to keep pure from all sins as they expose to the lash but especially from those sins for which the rod was brought forth 2. In reforming times we should take speciall heed that we neither retain old sins nor fall into new ones 3. As our timely readinesse to ingage and vow reforming may be admitted in the way of withholding judgements due to our former offendings so the breach or slow performings of those vowes may een force those judgements both for our former fallings and latter failings 4. In times when many are running others going some but creeping to perfection we should not block the way by so huge a scandall 5. At that very time to hold in Prelacy and Superintendency when God is visibly fighting them out to them that see any thing clearly is no lesse then to fight against God his word his sword FINIS