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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63878	Ebdomas embolimaios a supplement to the eniautos, or course of sermons for the whole year : being seven sermons explaining the nature of faith and obedience in relation to God and the ecclesiastical and secular powers respectively / all that have been preached and published (since the restauration) by the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy, Lord Bishop of Down and Connor ; to which is adjoyned, his Advice to the clergy of his diocese.; Eniautos. Supplement	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1663 (1663)	Wing T328; ESTC R14098	185,928	452

carry a Frigat into the Indies in which a 100. men were imbarqued I were a mad man to undertake the charge without proportionable skill and therefore when there is more ●●nger and more Souls and rougher Seas and more secret Rocks and horrible storms and the Shipwrack is an eternal loss the matter will then require great consideration in the undertaking and greatest care in the conduct Upon this account we find many brave persons in the first and in the middle ages of the Church with great resolution refusing Episcopacy I will not speak of those who for fear of Martyrdom declined it but those who for fear of damnation did refuse S. Bernard was by three rich Cities severally called to be their Bishop and by two to be their Archbishop and he refused them S. Dominicus refused four successively S. Thomas Aquinas refused the Archbishoprick of Naples and Vincentius Ferrerius would not accept of Valentia or Ilerda and Bernardinus Senensis refused the Bishopricks of Sens Vrbin and Ferrara They had reason and yet if they had done amiss in that Office which they declined it had been something more excusable but if they that s●ek it be as careless in the office as they are greedy of the honour that will be found intolerable Electus Episcopus ambulat in disco recusans volvitur in arcâ said the Hermit in S. Hierom. The Bishop walks upon round and trundling stones but he that refuses it stands upon a floor But I shall say no more of it because I suppose you have read it and considered it in S. Chrysostoms six books de sacerdotio in the Apologetie of S. Greg Naz. in the p●storal of S. Greg. of Rome in S. Dionysius's 6th Epistle to Demophilus in the letters of Epiphanius to S. Hierom in S. Austins Epistle to Bishop Valerius in S. Bernards life of S. Malachy in S. Hieroms 138. Epi●●le to Fabiola These things I am sure you could not read without trembling a●d certainly if it can belong to any Christian then work out your salvation with fear and trembling that 's the Bishops burden For the Bishop is like a man that is surety for his friend he is bound for many and for great sums what is to be done in this case Solomons answer is the way Do this now my Son deliver thy self make sure thy friend give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye lids that is be sedulous to discharge thy trust to perform thy charge be zealous for Souls and careless of money and remember this that even in Christs Family there was one sad example of an Apostate Apostle and he fell into that fearful estate merely by the desire and greediness of money Be warm in zeal and indifferent in thy temporalities For he that is zealous in temporals and cold in the spiritual he that doth the accessories of his calling by himself and the principal by his Deputies he that is present at the feast of Sheep-shearing and puts others to feed the flock hath no sign at all upon him of a good Shepherd It is not fit for us to leave the word of God and to serve tables said the Apostles And if it be a less worthy office to serve the tables even of the poor to the diminution of our care in the dispensation of Gods word it must needs be an unworthy imployment to leave the word of God and to attend the rich and superfluous furniture of our own Tables Remember the quality of your charges Civitas est Vigilate ad custodiam concordiam sponsa est studete amari oves sunt intendite pastui The Church is a spouse the Universal Church is Christs spouse but your own Diocese is yours behave your selves so that ye be beloved Your people are as sheep and they must be fed and guided and preserved and healed and brought home The Church is a City and you are the watch men take care that the City be kept at Unity in it self be sure to make peace amongst your people suffer no hatred no quarrels no suits at law amongst the Citiz●ns which you can avoid make peace in your Dioceses by all the wayes of prudence piety and authority that you can and let not your own corrections of criminals be to any purpose but for their amendment for the cure of offenders as long as there is hope and for the security of those who are found and whole Preach often and pray continually let your discipline be with charity and your censures flow let not excommunications pass for trifles and drive not away the fly from your brothers forehead with a hatchet give counsel frequently and dispensations seldom but never without necessity or great charity Let every place in your Diocese say Invenerunt me vigiles the watch men have found me out hassovevim They that walk the City round have sought me out and found me Let every one of us as S. Paul's expression is shew himself a workman that shall not be ashamed operarium inconfusibilem mark that such a labourer as shall not be put to shame for his illness or his unskilfulness his falseness and unfaithfulness in that day when the great Bishop of souls shall make his last and dreadful visitation For be sure there is not a carkase nor a skin not a lock of wool nor a drop of milk of the whole flock but God shall for it call the Idol Shepherd to a severe account And how think you will his anger burn when he shall see so many goats standing at his left hand and so few Sheep at his right and upon inquiry shall find that his ministring Shepherds were Wolves in Sheeps clothing and that by their ill example or pernitious doctrines their care of money and carelesness of their flocks so many Souls perish who if they had been carefully and tenderly wisely and conscientiously handled might have shin'd as bright as Angels And it is a sad conside●ation to remember how many souls are pitifully handled in this world and carelesly dismissed out of this world they are left to live at their own rate and w●en they are sick they are bidden to be of good comfort and then all is well who when they are dead find themselves cheated of their pretious and invaluable eternity Oh how will those Souls in their eternal prisons for ever curse those evil and false guides and how will those evil guides themselves abide in jud●ment when the Angels of wrath snatch their abused people into everlasting tor●ents For will God bless them or pardon them by whom so many souls perish Shall they reign with Christ who evacuate the death of Christ and make it useless to dear Souls Shall they partake of Christs glories by whom it comes to pass that there is less joy in Heaven it self even because sinners are not converted and God is not glorified and the people is not instructed and the Kingdom of God is not filled Oh no the curses of a

any personal or collateral Duty that he may do but no more Ever remembring the Saying of our blessed Lord In the world ye shall have trouble but in me ye shall have peace and consider this also which is a great Truth That every degree of love to the world is so much taken from the Love of God Be no otherwise sollicitous of your Fame and Reputation but by doing your duty well and wisely in other things refer your selfe to God but if you meet with evil Tongues be careful that you bear reproaches sweetly and temperately Remember that no Minister can govern his people well and prosperously unless himself hath learn'd humbly and cheerfully to obey his Superiour For every Minister should be like the good Centurion in the Gospel himself is under authority and he hath people under him Be sure in all your Words and Actions to preserve Christian simplicity and ingenuity to do to others as you would be done unto your self and never to speak what you doe not think Trust to Truth rather than to your Memory for this may fail you that will never Pray much and very fervently for all your Parishioners and all men that belong to you and all that belong to God but especially for the Conversion of Souls and be very zealous for nothing but for Gods glory and the salvation of the World and particularly of your Charges Ever remembring that you are by God appointed as the Ministers of Prayer and the Ministers of good things to pray for all the World and to heale all the World as far as you are able Every Minister must learn and practise patience that by bearing all adversity meekly and humbly and cheerfully and by doing all his duty with unwearied industry with great courage constancy and Christian magnanimity he may the better assist his people in the bearing of their crosses and overcoming their difficulties He that is holy let him be holy still and still more holy and never think he hath done his work till all be finished by perseverance and the measures of perfection in a holy Life and a holy Death but at no hand must he magnifie himself by vain separations from others or despising them that are not so holy II. Of Prudence required in Ministers REmember that Discretion is the Mistress of all Graces and Humility is the greatest of all Miracles and without this all Graces perish to a mans self and without that all Graces are useless unto others Let no Minister be governed by the opinion of his People and destroy his duty by unreasonable compliance with their humours lest as the Bishop of Granata told the Governours of Leria and Patti like silly Animals they take burdens upon their backs at the pleasure of the multitude which they neither can retain with Prudence nor shake off with Safety Let not the Reverence of any man cause you to sin against God but in the matter of Souls being well advis'd be bold and confident but abate nothing of the honour of God or the just measures of your duty to satisfie the importunity of any man whatsoever and God will bear you out When you teach your people any part of their duty as in paying their debts their tithes and offerings in giving due reverence and religious regards diminish nothing of admonition in these particulars and the like though they object That you speak for your selves and in your own cases For a counsel is not the worse but the better if it be profitable both to him that gives and to him that takes it Onely do it in simplicity and principally intend the good of their souls In taking accounts of the good Lives of your selves or others take your measures by the express words of Scripture and next to them estimate them by their proportion and compliance with the publick measures with the Laws of the Nation Eccesiastical and Civil and by the Rules of Fame of publick honesty and good Report and last of all by their observation of the Ordinances and exteriour parts of Religion Be not satisfied when you have done a good work unless you have also done it well and when you have then be carefull that vain-glory partiality self-conceit or any other folly or indiscretion snatch it not out of your hand and cheat you of the reward Be carefull so to order your self that you fall not into temptation and folly in the presence of any of your Charges and especially that you fall not into chidings and intemperate talkings and sudden and violent expressions Never be a party in clamours and scoldings lest your Calling become uselesse and your person contemptible Ever remembring that if you cheaply and lightly be engag'd in such low usages with any person that person is likely to be lost from all possibility of receiving much good from your Ministry The Rules and Measures of Government to be used by Ministers in their respective Cures USe no violence to any man to bring him to your opinion but by the word of your proper Ministry by Demonstrations of the Spirit by rational Discourses by excellent Examples constrain them to come in and for other things they are to be permitted to their own liberty to the measures of the Laws and the conduct of their Governors Suffer no quarrel in your Parish and speedily suppress it when it is begun and though all wise men will abstain from interposing in other mens affairs and especially in matters of Interest which men love too well yet it is your duty Duty here to interpose by perswading them to friendships reconcilements moderate prosecutions of their pretences and by all means you prudently can to bring them to peace and brotherly kindness Suffer no houses of Debauchery of Drunkenness or Lust in your Parishes but implore the assistance of Authority for the suppressing of all such meeting-places and nurseries of Impiety as for places of publick Entertainment take care that they observe the Rules of Christian Piety and the allowed measures of Laws If there be any Papists or Sectaries in your Parishes neglect not frequently to confer with them in the spirit or meekness and by the importunity of wise Discourses seeking to gain them But stir up no violences against them but leave them if they be incurable to the wise and merciful disposition of the Laws Receive not the people to doubtful Disputations and let no names of Sects or differing Religions be kept up amongst you to the disturbance of the publick peace and private Charity and teach not the people to estimate their Piety by their distance from any Opinion but by their Faith in Christ their Obedience to God and the Lawes an● their love to all Christian people even though they be deceived Think no man considerable upon the point or pretence of a tender Conscience unless he live a good life and in all things endeavour to approve himself void of offence both towards God and man but if he be an humble person