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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

pop Anteoch euery little filing the least ray is of great value Singuli sermones syllabae apices puncta in diuinis Scripturis plena sunt sensibus In the diuine Scriptures euery word syllable accent point is full of sense said S. Hierome e Hieron com in 3. ca. Ep. ad Ephes The Anabaptists are here confuted Vse 2 who refuse the Old Testament Also the Papists to be taxed for diuers points 1 For equalling vnwritten traditions to the written word in authority 2 For denying lay people as they call them to reade the Scriptures lest they should thereby proue Hereticks but in very deed lest the common people by that light should discerne their impostures and therefore whereas the Councell of Trent licenced young men to reade the Bible hauing a certificate from their Curate of their wisdome and sincerity the Pope after restrained that liberty 3 For holding the Scriptures not to be necessary but onely to the well and more conuenient being of the Church They make them necessary no otherwaies then riches to our life or a horse to our trauaile but we hold them as necessary as our daily bread for life and as our legges for trauailing on foot Though when God spake face to face to the Patriarcks and by dreames c. there was not such necessity of writing yet now those meanes being ceased S. Iude said Iude v. 3. it was needfull for me to write The Scripture is necessary for all Vse 3 for learned and vnlearned for old and young if they desire knowledge comfort and hope Quae nullis animis nullis non congruit annis Esp in 2. Tim. Lacte rigans paruos pane cibans validos Saint Augustine saith His praua corriguntur Aug. Velus Ep. 3. parua nutriuntur magna oblectantur ingenia Here ill dispositions may find for them amendment weak ones for their nourishment good ones for their delight Let the vnlearned study them that they may come to knowledge and the learned that they may be put in mind and stirred vp to doe according to that they know If thou beest faint here are the Flaggons of wine and apples of Paradise to comfort thee if thou beest strong and healthfull in grace here is the salt which will keepe thee from putrifying and corrupting If the Diuell assault thee here is the Riuer out of which thou maist choose thee smooth stones to repell and throw him vnder thy feet If thy lusts rebell here is the Sword to cut them off If thou beest sicke here is the Apothecaries shop of Cordials Conseruatiues and Restoratiues It were infinite to trauaile in this commendation Let vs all reade the Scriptures and learne them let vs teach our children to say Hosanna Timothy knowing the Scriptures from a child proued an admirable man Get thee a Bible at the least a new Testament it is the best implement of houshold As he is a simple Souldier that wants a sword so hee is a very sory Christian that wants a Bible The booke of the Scriptures giuen for our learning Vse 4 also to teach vs patience and consolation and hope They are Gods letters to vs to make vs not onely more learned but also more godly Apply the Scriptures to thy life and turne the words into workes or thou losest thy labour Many the more they know the nearer they are to hell because they liue not according to their knowledge As meat plentifully eaten and vndigested destroyeth the body so much knowledge not digested into works damneth the soule Therefore If you know these things happy are ye if ye doe them Iohn 13.17 VERSE 5. Now the God of patience and consolating grant you to be like minded one towards another according to Christ Iesus 6. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ THese two Verses are a Prayer for vnity and peace among the now dissenting Romanes It is a singular light and ornament of Pauls discourse It is brought in by a Prolepsis as if some should say to Paul you haue brought many strong reasons but doe you euer thinke to bring the weake to yeeld to the strong or the strong to forbeare their liberty for the weake by arguments no they are too much heat in the controuersie to heare reason To this Paul may be supposed to answer that which corruption denieth praier obtaineth Now the God of patience and consolation vnite their minds For he is able to make the Lion and the Lambe so to dwell together that a little childe may lead them In this prayer are two things The thing prayed for and the Amplification The thing prayed for to be like minded which implieth a vnion of their thoughts iudgements sentences affections this we call Concord which is a ioyning together of hearts that as they are concorporated into one outward profession Ephes 3.6 so they may be coanimated as I may say into one inward loue in Christ The Amplification is diuers 1 From the Author God the Father of the raine c. but especially the giuer and maintainer of vnity and peace God is here described by two effects Patience and Consolation Of Patience before Consolation because by diuine dispensation the way to mount Thabor is by mount Caluary Of Patience and Consolation together Because of the abundant sweetnesse and comfort which hee powreth into the hearts of his children vnder the Crosse But why of Patience and Consolation here rather then of Faith and Hope Because in prayer it is most comely to suite the thing wee pray for with attributes to God accordingly The strong were not patient toward the weake nor the weake toward the strong for if they had been so they might in time better haue vnderstood the Doctrine of Christian liberty If hot spirits would haue patience they should not so much ouershoot themselues and the Church should haue more peace 2 The persons which should be like minded one towards another the strong with the weake and the weake with the strong not onely with them of their owne party but also of the other that so parting and siding may be taken away 3 According to Christ which you may call the Kind of vnity an vnity in truth and godlinesse Agreement is a thing indifferent in it selfe but good or bad according as the things are in which the agreement is The agreement of drunkards and theeues c. is against Christ but this according to Christ. Or you may say according to Christs example and commandement which seemeth to be fittest for this place because of the Argument of Christs example of which this prayer is an illustration and because this implyeth the other 4 From the End of like-mindednesse which is the glory of God and this is amplified two wayes First from the instrument of this glory which is double the Inward Anselmus one minde the Outward one mouth that is Quando vnus idem sensus sermo per