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A51254	Breach upon breach, or, An acknowledgement of judiciall breaches made upon us, procured by sinfull breaches found amongst us with instruction, admonition, and encouragement yet to turn to him that smites us : as the sum of it was delivered at the funerall of Mr. Jeremiah Colman, late preacher of the Gospell at Hetherset in Norfolk, February 18, 1658/9 / by Tho. Moore, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2598; ESTC R9514	106,307	114

pans others of the Kohathites were over the Shew-Bread to prepare it every Sabbath And they had also their severall set offices and courses of singing praising and blessing in his name the Preists with Trumpets the Levites with other Instruments c. 2 Chron. 29. 25 26. each to wait on their office according to their order see 1 Chron. 6. 31 32. ch 9. 10. to the end 2 Chron. 29. 30. 31. with 1 Chron. 23. 24. to the end with chapters 24. 25. 26. totall 2 There were some appointed chief heads who were of the chief of the house of their Fathers that had the oversight of these severall offices and imployments who had themselves also some speciall service in them and were to look to the management of the rest as appeares in the verses before the text There were some chief of the house of their Fathers to oversee the whole charge and service of bearing the Ark and Vessels of the Lord c. So also we read of four chief Porters that had their set office and the oversight of the whole charge upon them who were therefore lodged round about the house as more devoted to the looking to and management of those affaires Likewise we read of chief heads of their Fathers appointed to be singers and of severall orders and courses of first and second degrees appointed by them 1 Chron. 6. 33 c. and 9. 33 34. c. and 15 16 17 18 19. c. see also Chapters 24. 25. 26. 3 The Preists the sons of Aaron and especially the High-Preist had the whole charge and over-fight of the whole Tribe of Levie and of their severall offices and service about the House of God and holy things when the Tabernacle with the Ark and Vessels of the Ministery were to be carried from place to place They were to appoint the severall services and burdens to the Levites and to cover the holy things committed to the Kohathites charge nor might the Kohathites look into touch or alter them least they dye and so to appoint and order all the other service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation And when they had rest still they were to appoint order and oversee the management of the whole businesse according to the Word of the Lord by Moses And to offer up and consecrate the Levites to their service and to offer the Burnt Offerings and the Bread of their God to make and keep the charge of the Oyle for the Lights and the Oyntments of Spices for anointing c. As in the severall Scriptures fore-mentioned may be seen and none of the Levites no not the heads or the chiefe of the heads of them to presume to doe any thing otherwise then according to and so as under their order For they the whole Tribe as they were devoted to the Lord so were given as a gift to Aaron and his Sons to minister unto them as in the fore-cited Scriptures may be seen Answerable to this their tipicall order There is an order to be observed by the holy Priesthood now in the service of the true Tabernacle and Sanctuary which the Lord hath pitched and not man And in their bearing the vessels of the Lord and Ministration about holy things in it As. 1 The whle company of them that call on him in truth being so sanctifyed by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ are therein prepared and made meete for this inheritance and called to this service to strive together for the faith of the Gospell to stand before him as an holy Priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices and to shine as lights in the world holding forth the word of life as hath beene shewed before but each according to their severall Abillities and Capacities by the grace given and gracious gifts bestowed and distributed to every man yet with this cautionary provisoe the women are not permitted to speak in every place not in the publick or generall assemblies of the Church where there are or may be not onely many daughters and attenders who are in some degree of simplicity waighting though yet they have received little But also many faighned as well as many halting believers and likewise many ignorant and some wilfull opposers comming in among them Nor is it seemly for them in any assemblys of believers so to speak or act as to usurp authority over the man and so not otherwise then so as they may be therein under obedience as that 1 Corinthians 14. 34. without the Translators addition is thus read It is not or hath not been permitted unto them to speak but to be under obedience c. in which saying as so read are two parts in such conjunction and the former so depending on the latter that it cannot stand without it and so this appears in the summe and scope of the saying That it is not permitted to them otherwise to speak then so as they be therein under obedience for so we find the like phrase or manner of speech in other Scriptures and in other cases carrying a like sense as John 5. 22. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son Now that the Father doth now judge men and that without respect of persons is plainly expressed in other Scriptures 1 Peter 1. 17. John 12. 48. with 1 Cor. 11. 32. Therefore the first part of that saying cannot stand alone or without the second yea our Saviour saith in that same Chapter John 5. 19. that The Son can do nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father do So that the sense of the saying fore-mentioned appears to be this That the Father judgeth no man immediatly or otherwise then so as by committing all judgement to the Son and so judging and executing judgement by him like to which is that 1 John 2. 27. Ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth c. Now that they all needed the helpfulnesse and teaching of their fellow-members and brethren and that all believers do so while they are here in this present world is evident enough in the same Chapter verses 1. 12. 15-24 28. and in other Scriptures 1 Cor. 12. 21. c. Ephes 7. 12 13. c. But the sense is clear they need not that any man teach them but as that teacheth or otherwise then as that teacheth they need not any mans teaching that teacheth otherwise as 1 Timothy 6. 3. 5. So here it is not permitted into the Women to speak but to be under obedience that the first part of this cannot stand alone or without the second is evident in the Scripture for they especially the elder women are exhorted and instructed so to speak as to be teachers of good things Tit. 2. 3 4. yea women are commended for labouring with Paul in the Gospell Phil. 4. 3. and that a woman expounded unto Apollo The way of the Lord more perfectly we read Acts 18. 26. yea that

judgement occasioning the lamentation and acknowledgement in the Text and that now to be bewailed by us That was the cutting off an useful member by a sudden stroke the taking away from us one probably more usefull by pining sickness like that threatned Isa 38. 2. That was in signal testimony of displeasure not onely to the Survivers but also to him that was cut off which is more then can be said of this Yea this was by sickness as may be supposed occasioned by and for the work of Christ if not also to supply some neglect and lack of service on others part for which he ought to be held in greater reputation as Phil. 2. 29 30. Yet hath it not in it the less but the more signal testimony of displeasure to us And however this Text suits our occasion it being not a declaration or mention of the correction in that stroke to Vzzah but of the correction in it to themselves and an acknowledgement not of his but their own iniquities neglects and disorders as the reason and procuring cause of it to them Now David could see that as the main reason and chiefly to be considered and acknowledged by them wherefore God was angry with Vzzah as sometimes also God was angry with Moses for the Peoples sake by whom also he was provoked to speak unadvisedly Numb 20. 10 12. Deut. 1. 37. and 3. 26. Psalm 106. 32 33. So here though at the first when David was angry he did not so see it 〈◊〉 of spirit● exalts folly Prov. 14. 29. It appears not that he observed any more then but a Breach upon Vzzah 1 Chron. 13. 11. Yet now he acknowledgeth Their not being sanctified after the Sanctification of the sanctuary nor seeking the Lord after the due order as not onely the principal occasion of Vzza's errour of rashness but also as that which provoked the Lord to make this breach upon Vzzah which now he bewails as a Breach chiefly upon them and procured by their owner iniquities which instructions of wisdom being seen and heard in quiet as Eccles 9. 17. as writ upon and spoken by the Rod provoke and stir him up to seek healing in a right way Better is the end of any thing then the beginning Better the patient in Spirit then the hasty Be not hasty in thy Spirit to be angry Eccles 7. 8 9. The instructions set before us in this text and seasonable to be considered of us Are 1. Such Providences are Breaches made or do make Breaches great and grievous Breaches upon a people 2 The Lord is the maker of such Breaches 3 The reason or procuring cause of such judgements from the Lord is our own iniquities yea usually there is found besides the more general evils some great iniquitie of neglects and disorders in Gods people the holy Priesthood yea iniquities and polutions in their holy things as the in-let to and procuring cause of such judgements on themselves and others 4 Yet the Lord is our God when so provoked by such iniquities and while so punishing us there is yet forgiveness with him and help in him that he may be feared and hoped in by us while it is to day That we may turn to him from whom we have deeply revolted 1 Such Providences are great and grievous Breaches made upon a People here 1 Consider what Providences 2 How they are Breaches or what manner of Breaches they are and on whom 1 The Providences or judgements under consideration are such as in which Righteous Good and Upright men are cut off or taken away from us in the midst of their dayes or before they have filled up their years or in the midst of some good work in the promoting and carrying on the design of Christ in the World and especially when such are so taken away as therein that generation or kind of persons are made thin or made to fail as when such of them as were more eminently usefull in gathering and keeping others together in companies or clusters and in stirring up believers with full purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord and strive together for the faith of the Gospel are taken away and no others of like usefulness and faithfulness left or raised up in their stead For more full understanding and usefulness of this we shall consider distinctly 1 What manner of persons they are whose being so removed make such Breaches 2 What manner of removal or taking away of such persons is especially so to be looked upon by us 1 The persons whose being taken away and perishing from the earth is such a woe and affliction or judgement upon others the Survivers are in other Scriptures thus expressed Righteous and merciful men Godly men men of kindness born of the kindness and pity of God our Saviour towards man and thence framed to some like mindedness Good men men full of the Holy Ghost in his discovery and shedding abroad the love and goodness of God in the testimony of Jesus and so full of faith of his operation in which that goodness of God in Christ is believed and their souls resting satisfied and rejoycing in it and thence filled with all goodness like their Heavenly Father able also and therein qualified to admonish one another and to seek the good of all according to their capacity Psalm 12. 1. Isaiah 57. 1. Mich. 7. 2. with Acts 11. 23 24. Rom. 15. 13 14. Such as are reconciled to God by Jesus Christ and have received into their hearts that word of reconciliation that God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and in retaining it in their hearts have it in some measure fitted in their lips that with it they may perswade others to be reconciled to God See farther for this the description of righteous and merciful men in the lamentation over the dead published on the death of Henry Rix and of the Doers of good Doers of the truth in the instruction to the living published on the death of Elizabeth Harrison in both which having spoken more largely to this point I forbear it here onely this we add The removing or perishing of wicked and ungodly men whether such as are incensed against the acknowledgement of the man Christ Jesus and of the excellent glory the Father hath given him for us in the same body in which he bore our sins on the tree that by him our faith and hope might be in God privily designing to cast him down from his excellency For such as are contrary to the good of all men being enemies in their minds to the riches and truth of Gods grace in and through Christ to man-ward and therefore seeking to eclipse hinder and cast mire and dirt upon the sincere Preaching of it as also upon the faithful confessors of it that hold it fast and hold it forth without hidden things of dishonesty Or such as otherwise in their principles and works deny him or do not love esteem

stop their mouths or prohibit them any other way which may be meet for them to walk in as happily they might in the Apostles times or first times of the Church succeeding them while the outward Court was in the hands of true and unfeignbelievers which since is left out as given into the hands of the Gentiles who tread the Holy City under-foot Revelations 11. 1 2. yet it behooves them therefore to be the more diligent and watchfull in holding fast the faithfull word as they have been taught and making full proofe of their ministery doing whatever lies before them to be done in it and with it faithfully as unto the Lord That they may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers and that the truth and power of the Gospell may continue with others as Acts 20. 28 29 30 31. 1 Timothy 5. 20. 21 22 2 Timothy 4. 1-5 Titus 1. 9. 10. Galatians 2. 4 5. Therefore saith Peter The Elders that are among you I exhort Feed the flock of God that are among you taking the oversight c. And yet not as being Lords For 6 Most of all out of order are they that seek to exercise a Master-ship or Lord-ship over their brethren that are not content to be brought so nigh as to minister to him as a holy Preisthood and to receive the Law and that their brethren with them also should receive it from his mouth but seek the Preisthood also even the high Preisthood that is peculiar to him like that sin of Korab Numbers 1 6. 9 10 11. and so would set themselves in his place and Temple as if they were the Great Apostles and high Preists of our profession to give lawes to his Church teaching for doctrines the precepts of men and setting up their Posts by his or as if they were the Lords of their brethren and had been crucified and given themselves a ransome for them would rule over the conscience determine their faith and assume to themselves an absolute seat of judgement over them not committing that to him to whom onely it belongs or would espouse them to themselves as if they could give encrease or spirit to them cont●ary to John 3. 28 29 30. Matthew 23. 8 9 10. 7. 1. 2 Cor. 11. 2. like him 2 Thes 2. 3 4 c. Now let us here also search and try our wayes and be willing to see and acknowledge our confusion and disorder as in these instructions it may be discovered and turn unto the Lord that hath s●itten us with whom yet there is mercy and healing for us And for a little farther particular application of these last instructions to such as are in any measure made of his spirituall house and holy Preisthood I shall briefly add a word or two unto such and oh that we were willing every one of us seriously to examine and judge our selves and to know every man the plague of his own heart Have we considered the nature and weight of the charge committed to us and been willing or had our hearts prepared to seek it to be sanctified to that service after the sanctification of his sanctuary Have we not defiled our selves with Idols and with many polutions of flesh and spirit Yea even then when under pretence of having no fellowship with the unfruitfull works or workers of darknesse we in our rash zeale have been seeking to hinder and keep out others for their weaknesse ignorance or sinfulnesse out of the house of God and from rejoycing and seeking the Lord with his people in his ordinances and bidding them stand aloofe from us we are holier then you yet have we not Instead of awakening rising and standing up from them in their ignorant and unclean principles and practices which we should have done and not the other I say while instead of that we have bidden them stand aloofe from us I am holyer c. Have we not walked in their wayes and so had fellowship with them in their uncleannesses in their covetousnesse pride following after the vanity of the mind in the fashions and customs of this world and according to our former lusts in our ignorance and after the Iusts of men Have we not sought after and doted on the wisedom of this world the praise of men and like things nay do we not even outstrip many of the world in these things and teach the ignorant and wicked ones these our wayes while under pretence of holinesse we will not let them learne better of us and so strengthen the hands of evill doers by our example that none of them returnes by means of us from the evill of his way Yea how little dwelling together with all lowlinesse of mind in the unity of the spirit or submitting of the younger to the elder and all of us one to another in the feare of the Lord as being cloathed with humility is there not rather a spirit of pride and thence of division yea of madnesse and giddynesse possessing us that is ever rushing us into extreames As to say 1. The younger and such as are taught in the word as Gall. 6. 6. And also fellow-helpers to the truth or such as might be so more then they are were they willing to walke circumspectly and with a right foot in the Gospell But such of us Are we not either headily slighting or dispising all helps of our brethren or at least such as we might enjoy and have much mercy in and advantage by as if we could understand the mind of God in the Scriptures as well without such helps and enjoy fellowship and communion with him though neglecting them boasting that we are of Christ as well as they and are not all the Lords people holy as Numbers 16. 3. with 1 Cor. 1. 12. As immagining that we have no need of them of their instructions advice prayers blessings and hands with us for our understanding mannaging the affaires of the Gospel pertaining to us but can as well stand alone or go one of our selves even without such of our brethren as to whom we ought more especially to submit our selves in the fear of the Lord at least if they will not fulfill our humor and say as we say Or else are we not on the other hand Idolizing and preferring them or some one or other of them before or in opposition to another As if they had beene crucified for us or had the spirit to give to us calling them or some of them our masters or fathers in such respects as Christ ought only so to be esteemed by us having our eye dependance on them as those that would have our fear regulated taught by their precepts yea as the eyes of a Servant are to his Master and of a Hand-Maid to her Mistris and as our eyes should be only unto the Lord. Yea. 2. The Elders among us Though it s not meete especially for such a younger one as my selfe to rebuke such