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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

heaven much lesse Antichrist regreet wee ought not to be troubled thereat sithence the spirit of God doth not content himselfe with so plaine an affirmation thereof but to beat the absolutenesse and all sufficiency of Scripture into mens braines and breasts hee repeateth the thing againe more fully then before being made perfect or throughly furnished May not the matter for all this be yet minced and this perfectiō or through furniture meant of most good workes To all good workes required of mā to doe Haue the Scriptures God their author Afford they all things necessary to soundnesse of faith and sinceritie of life in their vse Is the end of their transmission to posteritie by writing to make mē absolute so absolute that there is no good worke wherewith God is pleased which hee requires in those whom he will saue but they instruct him in it and how to doe it Then wee are content that this errour of the Scriptures perfection should close our eyes desiring no other no safer conduct then they reveale to that celestiall Elysium Sedes vbi fata quietas ostendunt Where the rich man saw Abraham and Lazarus in his bosome Let all such as cannot be content with the Scriptures direction goe as farre as they can Non equidem invideo miror magis Beyond all perfection for the further they goe the fuller assurance of Gods favour they forfeit the more frequent feeling of that loue and kindnesse which is better then life it selfe they forgoe because they goe from God We seeke not we wish not to be wise or perfect aboue the folly and imperfection of that which is written that is for higher wisdome or perfection then that which leadeth to life it rightly so called life eternall Thy word saith David is a lanthorne vnto my feet a light vnto my path Ps. 119. 105. The light of the lanthorne descries the evill we are to decline By the guidance of this light we may bee led forward to the practise of all good What thought is there of mans heart which may not hence be established if doubtful subdued if headstrōg What words idle or evill are not here reproued and may not be reformed And wherewithall shall a young man in whom affections most rage and raigne clense his way What sorrow so great or maladie of minde which the tongue of the learned may not hence allay what infirmity bodily or affliction worldly may not mans spirit be taught hence to sustaine Here is the season of salt the force of fire the defence of armour the nourishment of meat the solace of marriage of spoiles the profit of victorie the pleasure of light the direction of musicke the delight the sweetnes of hony and the hony combe In heavinesse it cheares vs in wandrings recalls vs giuing health to our bones peace to our liues content to our soules The faithfullest coūseller strongest supporter best interpreter of strange evēts and heavenliest moderatour of crosse occurrents Further since the matter of our practise without the right maner of performance is but a carcase of religion without a quickning spirit the Scriptures make knowne vnto vs that mans deed in Gods matters is but a desire at most an endeavour which endeavour must bee thus conditioned 1. Sincere for he with whom we haue to doe requres truth in the inward parts 2. Serious or earnest for heaven is the hold which none surprise saue such as will take no nay 3. Setled or constant because he that is holy must bee holy still 4. Vniversall or entire for whosoever shall keepe the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guiltie of all Now what more sit rule or perfect square can be found to frame the Lords building by then that which laies the foundation in sinceritie reares vp the walls in fervency covers the whole by constancy and keeps it holy by entire obedience Their madnesse hereby appeares the more who accuse the scriptures of want and imperfection to the ende they may peice and patch them vp with their vnwritten verities indeed lying vanities traditions or rather as a compleat and a most acute diuine calls them contradictions Which first Preiudice yea frustrate Gods purpose in penning the Scriptures These things are written that your ioy may be full Againe these things c. Ioy is the companion and salvation the end of faith No ground of sollid peace true ioy can be wanting where fulnes therof is found to spring and the meane is not imperfect which begets a perfect faith nor doth that faith frustrate which brings salvation The Evangelist S. Luke wrote not of some only but all things which he had searched out perfectly yet no other then the Apostles were witnesses and Ministers of to Theophilus that he might knowe the certaintie of those things wherein he had beene instructed 1. Lukes diligence which was not perfunctorie 2. The successe that perfectly 3. The extent that all 4. Their authoritie that no other then the Apostles themselues delivered 5. The estate of the person to whom they were dedicated Theophilus who before had heard and been instructed in them 6. The state of the time wherein Theophilus lived hauing himselfe heard beene taught of the Apostles 7. The end of committing these things to writing which was to cōfirme him in the things he knew convince plainely 1. That not only that which the Apostles taught as necessary to salvatiō is writtē 2. But also that the writing of such things is more necessarie on our parts who heard not the Apostles preachings instructions as he did 3. And to beleeue and embrace nothing of things necessary as Apostolical which hath not scriptū est for the best warrant They falsifie such attributes as confirme the same Is not grace an infallible earnest of glorie By the word wee are brought and stablished in this happie state else why is it called the word of grace Seeke we more then life By the light of this Lanterne we are led thereto Else were it mis●earmed the word of life Desire we better things thē such as doe accompanie salvation it reveales the same and how to attaine them Else should the spirit delude the Church Need we more or other food then that which nourisheth to life and it eternall And if when we were enemies wee were reconciled to God by the death of his sonne much more being reconciled by the ministers of the word wee shall be saued by his life Either these titles are vntruths or the Scriptures containe all necessarie truth for reformatiō of life and sincerity of beleefe Admitting them we cānot beleeue the scriptures which purposely and peremptorily forbid all additions of men Ad thou not vnto his words least hee reproue thee thou be found a lyar which trade of lying and making of their owne if with the popish crew it were

not rise they could not sell so cheap as they doe nor so cause their volumes swell but Quid Romae faciant simentiri nesciant VVhat should they doe at Rome if they could not over-reach They load the spirit of God with blasphemous imputations of falshood cōtrariety The first because it averres so pregnantly the sufficiency of the scriptures The latter because many things are fathered thereon contrary to that which is revealed as adoring of images calling on Saints worshipping their breaden God massing communicating in one kinde with those which S. Paul calls the doctrine not of Divines but Divells They rase the old foundation and erect a new Canon The foundatiō personall is rased 1. In deifying adoring a man the man of sinne as the sonne of man 2. In doing no lesse to a peece of paist 3. In adoring the creatures with the spoiles of their maker They destroy the foundatiō doctrinall or erect a new Canon in being wise aboue that which is written We haue saith a Rhemish ringleader master builder of the Babilonish Synagogue another foūdation of Christian religion diverse from the Apostolicall and propheticall scriptures Therefore a new another rule They take the wall on Gods word The Coūcel of Trent embrace this trash of Apostolicall as they stile thē indeed Apostaticall traditions pari pietatis affectu reverentia with the like reverence pious affectiō that they doe the Scriptures He doth no lesse deserue to be counted an Ethnick who refuseth Ecclesiasticall traditions then hee that reiects the Gospel saith Stolla Papists in their Practise punishments out-run this opinion fortifying traditiō with fire sword whilst they trample Gods edicts vnder foot Eckius doth not obscurely intimate that mē must liue more according to the authoritie of the Church then after the Scripture The lawes rules of their irreligious orders are and haue been strictly kept in the omission contempt of Gods commandemen●s The contempt of their idolatrous adulterous Masse the eating of a peece of flesh vpon a friday is more abhorred and rigorously intreated then the horrible guilt of Homicide theft avarice vncleanesse or cursing of parents Whither tends the pretended authority of the Church aboue the scriptures if not to prefer the darknesse of her traditions before the light of Davids Lanthorne To make Abanah and Pharpar rivers of the Italian Damascus more soveraigne then all the waters in Gods Israel VVhat other thing is meant by that blasphemous and vnchristian challenge provoking Protestants out of the weake and false castle of onely scriptures into the plaine field of Traditions Whereby more strength authority is giuen to tradition for confirmatiō of truth and confutation of heresie then to Scripture What speakes their immoderate praises of tradition those disgraceful reproaches cast on the Scriptures The Canon Law strikes it dead affirming the Apostolicall See of Rome to be respected with such reuerence that men rather desire to know the ancient institution of Christian Religion frō the Popes mouth then from the holy Scriptures and they onely enquire what is his pleasure and according to it they order their life and conversation wherein three grieuous crimes are combined with one breath Arrogancie defection and Antichristianisme It is pride intollerable for thē to ascribe or the Pope to assume an authority and power of enacting Lawes in Gods kingdome Plaine Apostacy to take heed to Popish fables commandements of men that turne away from the truth Vndoubted Antichristianisme to challenge hearing before Scriptures instead of searching them to enforce subscription to the Popes pleasures The Asse finding the Lions skin puts it on to domineere ouer other beasts but when his Master found him whether his long eares bewrayed him hapning to be seene or his braying betrayed him fortuning to be heard though he deceiued others yet him he could not gull The Italian beast hath cloathed himselfe with the Lions skin euen the skin of the Lion of the tribe of Iudah I meane the power and authority of God whereby he Lords it ouer all Fathers Councils Church Scriptures His Sycophants see and publish with applause but to such Masters in Gods Israel as examine his title by the touch-stone of truth his long eares which from farre suckes in such vniust aspersions his brayes brags of two swords his concealement putting of Gods Candle vnder a bushell that he might with lesse reluctation doe his feares in the darke his traducing of Scriptures for obscuritie and insufficiencie his impeaching of their authoritie his suiting of their sense to the complexion of times his changing of the very articles of faith founding of new his silencing of that breath in cases controversed which must cōsume him his preferring of chaffe to wheat of that which is worse then water to the wine of Gods Cellar his supercilious superlatiue stiles with other like bewray him to be the Asse the Antichrist who was to sit in the Temple of God as God 2. Thessal 2. 4. There is but one Law-giuer whose 1 allowance they lack whose 2 Lawes they disanull Could God more plainly reiect such seruice reproue such practice then he doth by that censure which yet they contemne In vaine they c. wherein our Saviour covertly proposing his will and word for the alone rule of all acceptable service and opposing mens precepts to that doctrine which is divine vtterly and vniuersally condemnes all such rules of his worship as are contrary to or besides the Scriptures And all works groūded vpon such rules as are not learned out of the word though for wisdome they make a shew as if they came frō Heauen for humility they seeme to proceed from a mortified mind for austerity do not spare the body yet take it vpon the word of an Apostle do they neither please God nor profit vs since they are things of no value Now Christ we know to be truth it selfe and Paul we acknowledge to haue lighted his torch at our Saviours lampe but who are these that presume to lay the cōmandements of God apart obserue the tradition of men 1. Such as are zealous in their profession so were they whose zeale notwithstanding the Apostle reproues because it was not vshred with knowledge 2. Such are ouerawed with a feare not priviledged spirituall feare whereof the Prophet speakes Psal. 25. but such as is taxed by another Prophet because taught by the precepts of men Isa. 29. 13. 3. Such as are wearied with pilgring pined with fasting clogged with imposts of voluntary service the Pharises did likewise furrow sea land fast often sting thēselues with thornes lye vpō planks beat their heads against wals till blood sprung yet never a whit more liked or allowed of God Math. 5. 20 who requires not mangled but mortified members Col. 3. 5. a liuing sacrifice

therefore that loues God must spare no paines to keepe her chast If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning my pulses beating my lungs breathing let his tongue cleaue to the roofe of his mouth who preferres not Ierusalem in him mirth that is the welfare of Christs flocke before all other ioyes in the world besides This glory of ours my brethren so David calls it and all other the instruments God hath lent vs of his glory and our husbandry if they be not kept in vse they will become vnserviceable shall be eaten vp with the rust Wee are called by God into his vineyard which if we dresse not with diligence prune uot with care and wisely vnderprop by our good example the Master will come pull vs out by the poles of our heads and put vs to tread the great wine-presse of the wrath of God Christ compared his Disciples to a cittie that is set on a hill we may also compare them to the hill or mount whereon the cittie stands 1. Montes are eminentiores terrae partes more seene and obiect to mans eye then plaines lower places so in that height of place wherein they were set to be seene of all more integritie and pietie was required then in the ordinarie ranke of professours 2. The grass springs purer more wholsome for pasture on those tops and heights of hills so the Lords flocke and sheepe of his pasture feed better and fat sooner by Pastors examples then by private persons Tum demum exempla probantur Quando rex aliis quod inbet ipse facit Thirdly the dewe and moisture which falls from heaven vpon Hermon descends from thence vpon the plaine of Bashan clothing her vallies so thicke with grasse that they laugh and sing so from those mountaines of Mir●h Incense drop and distill the dewe of heavenly doctrine godly consolation and saving grace such as causeth the Saints to reioyce for their glory to sing lowd vpon their beds This was prefigured in the law by the golden bell pomegranate placed about the skirts of Aarons robe The pomegranate signified the sweet savour of Christs death the golden bell the Gospell preached the ioint mixture of them both did intimate thus much that God would make manifest the savour of his knowledge the saving knowledge of his sonnes sufferings by his Aarons and preachers in every place Now what is the doctrine which Timothy must teach and take heed vnto for matter the truth of God without traditiō for measure fully keeping naught backe for manner in a holy boldnesse discreet roundnesse in loue with diligence applying himselfe to the hearers capacitie with desire of Gods glory and their good His words thus guided by knowledge backt by truth tempered with loue applyed with discretion and forced from a knowne watch over his owne waies shal be like apples of gold in pictures of silver like the words of the wise which are as goads nailes fastned by the Masters of the assemblies As goades they shall rowse them out of the sleepe of sinne as nailes fasten and ioyne them close to Christ their head Hee shall be vnto them the sweet savour of God vnto salvation they an acceptable sacrifice vnto Christ by his admonition But where is this truth found in the Turkes Alcoron or Popes Canon No but with him alone who saith of himself I am the way wherein walking we stray not the truth which imbracing we erre not and the life without which we die although we liue a spirituall death in a naturall life To this Christ all both Prophets and Apostles send vs as the welspring of life and Christ to the Scriptures search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me Where he is so far from impeaching that authoritie sufficiency which the Iews gaue vnto the Scriptures that he doth not only as it were countenance and covertly commend that their opinion but openly argue and reason therefrom Notwithstanding the Church of Rome doth not only wrest corrupt misconstrue contradict and disanull these Scriptures but teach for doctrines mens precepts Rome was sometimes a famous Church her faith was published throughout the whole world sed quantum mutatur ab illa How farre is she fallen from her first loue for her children haue committed two evills They haue forsaken the fountaine of living waters which refreshed the Saints hearts in their necessity with sound comfort and digged them pits that cā hold no water to comfort her now revolted brood withall S. Paul taught and Rome receaued it that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the law The Romanists maintaine a iustification by workes and a merit of the same without the faith which Paul meant 1 Against the professed and profound disputes of our Apostle there and elsewhere 2. Against the end of good workes supreame which is Gods glory 1. Cor. 1 21. subordinate being ordained for vs to walke in Eph. 2. 10. By walking therein to winne others 1. Cor. 7. 14 witnesse our faith I am 2. 18. Testifie our thankfulnesse Luk. 1. 74. 75. and settle vs in the assurance of our salvation 2. Pet. 1. 10. 3 Against the law and Prophets Moses proposing a reward of mercy not merit to them that loue God and keep his Commandements Exod. 20. 6. David deriving expresly all reward therefrom Psal. 62. 12. and pronouncing him a happy man to whom the Lord imputes righteousnesse without workes as one interprets who could neither mistake his meaning misconstrue his scope nor erre in right conference of the Scriptures Rom. 4. 6. 4 Against the tenor and title by which the state of salvation is firmely holden which is the adoption of sonnes no earned hire of mans service since the seed of the bond-woman cannot inherit with the free-borne Gal. 4. 30. 5 Against the light of reformed reason since wee afford 1. nothing vndue for he made vs and not we our selues yea and made vs againe both in our redemption and renovation Psal. 100. 2. Nothing proper he working in vs as subiects by vs as instruments both wil and worke Phil. 2. 13. 3. Nothing profitable for what can wee doe so well as to deserue of him to whom our weldoing doth not extend Psal. 16. 4. Nothing proportionable to Gods bountie whether we doe or suffer obey or beare for what is a light and momentary affliction to that glory which for first weight cannot bee countervailed by a world of woes 2 Cor. 4. 17. Secondly for eternitie admits neither abatemēt limit nor intermission Rom. 8. 18. Thirdly for excellency surpasseth all that eye hath seene eare hath heard or any heart of man can conceaue 1. Cor. 2. 9. Fourthly so farre as no speech can vtter because it is vnspeakable 6 Against the drift and