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A30703	A warning-piece for the unruly in two sermons at the metropolitical visitation of the most reverend father in God, Richard Lord Archbishop of York, held at Preston in Amondernes in Lancashire, and there preached, the former on that day, the latter the day following / by Seth Bushell.	Bushell, Seth, 1621-1684.	1673 (1673)	Wing B6238; ESTC R24244	23,200	54

the careless neglect and breach whereof in the Apostle's sence denominates a man unruly The Precepts of the Lord Christ do set before us a rule of Holiness so does his practice too in whom we have a most perfect pattern and exemplar of all righteousness He told St. John Baptist that it became him to fulfil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all righteousness whatever had a shew or appearance of goodness So Grotius vox haec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 latissimè sumitur ita ut significet non modò 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed quicquid ullam aequi atque boni habet rationem In him we may learn our duty towards God our way with men and our demeanour in reference to our selves His Precepts are full and so is his Pattern too for as Blosius well hath it Lud. Blos Speculum spirituale cap. 10. Etiamsi codices omnes qui toto orbe habentur intercidissent vita passio Christi abundè Christianis omnibus sufficeret ad virtutem omnem veritatem perdiscendam Now they who will not attend to the voice of Christ by his Precepts teaching Holiness nor to the way of Christ by his Pattern leading to it what else can be said of them than that they are unruly Of these 't is to be feared there are too many and this charge does justly reach some both Priest and People And herein first the charge is against those who pretend to the Priesthood and are not duely called These are intruders into that Sacred Office and invade those bounds which they ought not to come within Psal 50.16 What have such to do to declare Gods statutes or Ministerially to take his Covenant in their mouths 2 Cor. 5.19 seeing the word of reconciliation was never committed to them Such climb up over the wall into the sheepfold Joh. 10.1 enter not by the door That order and polity which God hath set in his Church these what in them lies are the subverters of How presumptuously self-confident are these men who dare to adventure upon those things with such unadvised rashness for which the blessed Apostle apprehended in Mortals such an insufficiency and upon a sober and mature consideration crys out 2 Cor. 2.16 Who is sufficient for these things 'T is not gifts will authorize a person to step up into Moses chair neither because he 's excellently qualified with tongues and knowledge is he therefore a Minister of Christ These may perhaps puff up and make a man swell so as to appear something in his own eyes yea and in the eyes of others too but he travails with froth and wind and brings forth vanity who upon this ground dares to approach Gods Altar Methinks this piece of unruliness and enormity in the Church of God might be repressed and regulated by the countermands of sobriety modesty humility and self-denyal and other the like Christian graces were such gifted men but subjects of them but if these be not as 't is to be feared such spirits are too empty of soul seasoning graces yet surely the sad instances upon record of persons usurping the Priestly Office and the fatal issues thereupon should not only awaken but so terrifie as to reduce all such pretenders and affright them from the like usurpations for the future when 't is considered how God dealt with Korah and his complices for rising up against Moses and against Aaron but chiefly their design was to invade the Priesthood for this they did not die the common death of all men Numb 16.10 30 31. but the Lord made a new thing and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up a sign of sore and sad displeasure So we read the men of Bethshemesh were smitten with a great slaughter 1 Sam. 6.19 because they had looked into the Ark which was not for them but only for the Priests and Levites to have intermedled about The case of Vzzah may not be forgotten who was smitten to death by Gods immediate hand because he put forth his hand to hold the ark when the oxen shook it 2 Sam. 6.6 7. Doubtless his intent was good to secure the Ark from harm and to that purpose put forth a helping hand but a good intention will not acquit from the guilt of error when the act is cross to Gods command or the Agent not warranted by a due call unto it And who dares draw nigh to the office of Priesthood without a Call if the matter of Vzziah be considered 'T is said when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction 2 Chron. 26.17 18 19. Ambition transported him to invade the Priesthood for which fact the signal mark of Gods high displeasure was notorious in his forehead and he became a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house and was separated from the society and communion of Gods people and this in Scripture phrase was accounted as destruction for so Menochius glosseth Lepra instar mortis erat quia ab hominum consuetudine tanquam mortuum separat Now all this as it evidenceth Gods special care of the Priestly Function not suffering it to be polluted by common hands so it shews his mindfulness of what he spake to Aaron and to his sons Behold I have given your priests office unto you as a service of gift and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death Numb 18.7 Those must needs be accounted irregular in their courses who walk cross to Apostolical rules and practice Were not the Ministers of Christ in the Primitive times separated unto the Gospel of God Act. 13.2 Did not St. Paul put his hands upon Timothy Rom. 1.1 and did not he enjoyn Timothy carefulness in the laying on of his hands and in the commitment of a Gospel trust to faithful men 2 Tim. 1.6 who should be able to teach others also 1 Tim. 5.22 that so there might be a good succession Mar. 3.14 None were then to preach but those that were ordained and sent No man took this honour unto himself Rom. 10.15 but he that was called of God as Aaron was Heb. 5.4 God gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists Eph. 4.11 and some Pastors not all And therefore to check as 't were this spirit of giddiness 1 Cor. 12.29 and unruly humour the question was fitly put by the Apostle viz. are all Apostles are all Prophets are all Teachers Now from the first times to our days there has been a succession downwards and the work of the Ministery has been committed to distinct persons and they are and have been distinctly and severally enjoyned to wait upon their office Therefore as to Ecclesiastick Order and the outward Polity of the Church we may conclude that confusion in Religion will as certainly follow every mans turning Priest or Preacher as it will in that State where every one affects to rule as King

A Warning-Piece FOR THE UNRULY IN TWO SERMONS AT THE METROPOLITICAL VISITATION OF THE Most Reverend Father in God Richard Lord Archbishop of YORK held at Preston in Amondernes in Lancashire and there PREACHED The former on that day the latter the day following By Seth Bushell D. D. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Ep. ad Eph. Edit Savil. p. 823. LONDON Printed for Will. Cademan at the Popes head in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand and Tho. Passinger at the three Bibles on London-bridge 1673. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God RICHARD LORD ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My LORD I Have made humbly bold to fix your Name before these Sermons not to entitle your Grace to any the weakness that may have escaped therein in some kind the inseparable attendant of humane frailty but to testifie the respect and duty under which I stand obliged which is deservedly yours Besides the tender of them may seem in point of right firstly to belong unto your Grace being Preached and by appointment at your Metropolitical Visitation The favourable acceptance of them from the Pulpit giving hope of no less candid entertainment from the Press is one main motive to make them publick Perhaps there may be that in them which may conduce not onely to the advantage of the Churches Sons in their Establishments but to the conviction of others who through weakness or perversness may be gone astray and have left the fold and so become instrumental for their orderly reduction Vpon these accounts I was not unwilling to cast them upon the waters Such as they are I here humbly present them to your Grace as a real testimony that I am My LORD Your Graces most faithful servant SETH BUSHEL A Warning-Piece FOR THE UNRULY 1 Thess 5.14 Warn them that are unruly THe Doctrine of the Church hath in no age been so pure and plain but there have arisen Heresies nor the pale of Discipline so compact and good but there have been some Schisms The purity of its Doctrine has not secured malignant spirits from being tainted with soul-destroying errors neither has the excellency of its Discipline preserved tumorous members from going beyond the due bounds of the body 1 Cor. 11.19 As there must be heresies Jud. 19. so there will be such who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit Now as Heresie is a renting from the Head so is Schism a dividing from the Body Heresie does not hold the Head and Schism will not keep to the Body There may be Schism without Heresie but never Heresie without a Schism Now both these as they are evil in their nature so they are pernicious to the Church in their issue For in that body whose strength and beauty does consist in the unity and order of it by the unhappy means of these two fatal sisters the unity is dissolved and the order confused and so its beauty 's blemished and strength impaired The orderly peace of the Church is to he prayed for Psal 122.6 and 137.6 and prefer'd before all outward mercies Now the stress thereof seems to rest upon the two Pillars of unity and verity which Heresie and Schism not only undermine but openly endeavour the subversion of Heresie strikes at verity and Schism would dissolve its unity that so the Church's peace might be broken and confusion and every evil work might follow It should be the design therefore as well as 't is the duty of every true Son to endeavour the preservation of their Mother 'T is no less their interest than their honour to watch on her behalf and to seek her safety and securement not only against the onsets of the professed enemy but the corrosions of those vipers that would gnaw in pieces her intestines that the bowels of their Mother may not be fretted by the worms of faction nor her members distorted by the rack of Schism And as the true Sons of Sion bear upon their hearts this filial respect and duty to her that bare them so this care is not only commended to but commanded them by the Apostle in the words of the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Warn them that are unruly I shall trouble you no further with the coherence of the words than to tell you that they are ranked amongst and summ'd up with divers Apostolical precepts given by the Holy Ghost to be referr'd to Christian Practice The words express a duty wherein there is 1. An Act enjoyned Warn 2. The subject or persons about which this Act is to be conversant viz. the unruly Warn them that are unruly The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred here unruly as used in Scripture is express'd often by disorderly So 2 Thess 3.6 Now we command you brethren that ye withdraw your selves from every brother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that walketh disorderly So Vers 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We behaved not our selves disorderly among you So Vers 11. We hear that there are some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which walk among you disorderly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui faciunt praeter ordinem à Deo constitutum So the Schol. has it Those are unruly which go aside or beyond that order that God hath limited and appointed for them For the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is emphatical and imports not barely a giving warning but so to warn as to press it home and to put it into the mind The word used by the Apostle which is rendred admonition Eph. 6.4 is the same with this and as Hemingius upon that place explains it talem in genere admonitionem notat qua alicui veluti in animam ponas ac ingeras quid factu opus est So the Apostle press'd upon the Ephesians and brought as much as in him lay his warning home Act. 20.31 I ceased not saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to warn every one night and day with tears So that Observ The disordered and unruly are to be warned Warning is so to be given them as to put it into their minds Herein 1. Of the Subject or Persons 2. Of the Act or Duty 1. We are to enquire about the Subject or Persons who these unruly are Is not every way of man right in his own eyes Prov. 21.2 Who follows not a rule The most enormous indeed that are gather some salvo to their thoughts lest their hearts should condemn them thinking either that they are regular or not so chargeable with irregularity as some would seem to make them for that they imagine the rule to have such a latitude as may admit of their transgressions upon some indifferent compensation Now to detect the nature of unruliness and to shew you who they are that justly fall under this charge we shall reduce them to these following particulars First such are unruly who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Christ nor receive the wholesome truths thereof This Doctrine firstly laid down in Scripture is capitulated in the