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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09580	The fisher-man A sermon preached at a synode held at Southwell in Nottinghamshire. Shewing 1. The necessitie of calling and gifts enabling in a minister. 2. The danger intruders are in. 3. Whose fault it is that such are in the Church. 4. A good life requisite in all that professe Christianitie, but especially in ministers. 5. Wisedome and learning absolutely necessary in preachers. 6. Vnlearned & frothy preaching doth much hurt. 7. Gods worke goeth best forward when his workmen agree well amongst themselues. 8. Contempt of Gods ministers shall not be vnpunished. With other points of moment. By Ierom Phillips Bachelour in Diuinitie.	Phillips, Jerome, d. ca. 1648.	1623 (1623)	STC 19862; ESTC S114717	16,136	34

is not lawfull to eate but for the Priests onely They that are driuen to this Calling for bread onely and haue no other testimony of an inward calling nisi quod inanitate intestina murmurant Plaui Cas for the most part they will transgresse for bread in the execution of their offices frusto panis conduci possunt vel vri taceant vel vti loquantur they will speake good of euill or euill of good as they shall finde to make best for their owne priuate aduantage It is the Apostles sentence Act. 6. It is not meete to leaue the word of God and serue tables we may inuert the sentence and say It is not meet that men should leaue seruing of tables to become dispensers of Gods word It is not meete that Ministers should turne Seruing men nor that Seruing-men and such like mercenary and mechanicall men voide of learning and gifts enabling should turne Ministers If euer God open the eyes of these men to let them see the danger they are in and feele the weight of the burden that is on their shoulders and how vnable they are to beare it they wil thē come in fulfilling the prophecie of Zacharie and say I am no Prophet but an husbandman Zach 13.5 for man taught me to be an-herd-man from my youth Though they haue now high places in the Church and are great in their parochiall purchases though they sit vpon pinnacles of the Temple yet if they consider that the Tempter set them there to cast them downe headlong to breake their necks they will be glad to get downe the fairest way Though they haue now the honour of Prophets yet if they consider that they are but the diuels workmen in Gods house and that it may be said of them as of Saul Inuasit eum spiritus malus 1. Sam. 18.10 prophetabat the euill spirit comes on them and they prophecie the euill spirit comes on them and they turne Priests When they well weigh these things they will be glad for the peace of their consciences to betake themselues to their old trades againe and leaue this Calling to those that can better execute it and that can deriue their pedigrees from Aaron Nehem. 7.64 If you aske the cause why in a well gouerned Church such Locusts can so swarme One is sacrilegious Patrons giue their liuings vpon such dishonest termes that no man of gifts or grace can accept of them and therefore they are faine to find out such as will accept of them vpon any termes euen for Michaes wages Iudg. 17.10 ten shekels of siluer by the yeare a suite of apparell and meate and drinke But others say if no such Ministers were made the Church should not be pestered with such vnworthy creatures It is true indeed and if any that haue power to ordaine admit such wittingly and willingly it will be heauie for him to answer for it before the great Bishop of our soules But to speake truly in the iust defence of those reuerend Fathers quos vtinam omnes possem liberare the cause for the most part is amongst our selues for it is not possible that any Bishop should know the life and conuersation and education of euery one that is to be admitted into the ministery but by the testimony of those that know them Ministers and Gentlemen for fauour or for by-respects are too liberall of their hands in giuing testimony to them whom either they know not or know not to be deseruing Et hinc illae lachrimae They that thus commend vnworthy ones to the worke of the ministery let them consider though they be no Bishops whether in so doing they haue not transgressed the Apostles precept 1. Tim. 5.22 Ne cui cito manus imponas Lay hands suddenly vpon no man neither be partaker of other mens sinnes There is another sort that out-run their calling too which being called to follow straightwayes runne to this fishing before they be furnished being called to be Disciples straightwayes they run to the Apostolik function contrary to the Apostles precept Neophitus ne sit 1. Tim. 3.6 Let him not be a yong Scholler Before yeares and experience reading and other helps bring them to maturitie of iudgement they take vpon them to diuide the word of God to his people Let it be granted that these be some of them of the Tribe of Leui I meane yong men trained vp in the Schooles for the Ministery yet for their forwardnesse it may be said of them truly as the factious company to Moses mutinously Numb 16 You take too much vpon you yee sonnes of Leui. Vnder the Law the Leuites had their appointed times for their ages Numb 4. before which they might haue no admittance to the seruice in the Tabernacle though they were neuer so ripe and pregnant It was not well with the sacrifices when Priests boyes were permitted to intermeddle they neuer came to do any good seruice either to God or to his Church 1. Sam. 2.13 but they came with their flesh-hookes to fetch sweet morsels from the Altar and these caused the sacrifices of the Lord to be despised When the yong sonnes of the Prophets shall be set to gather herbes to make pottage for the food of Gods houshold they may happely in stead of wholesome pot-herbes bring in Colloquintida that when the broth is serued in they that taste of it may say Mors in olla 2 King 4.40 O man of God death is in the pot I doubt not but God may enable some as he did yong Timothy with rare gifts for his worke though they haue not many yeares but it is not common it is not ordinary Et da mihi talem Timotheum saith Bernard Bernard ego illum cibabo auro potabo balsamo Thus farre the order and disposition of the parts Now followeth the parts of tne Text in order 1. Calling Follow me 2. Qualifying I will make you Fishers of men To follow Christ Iesus is not to follow him on foote onely Augustinus de bono virginali but to follow his precepts and example of life Hunc in eo quisque sequitur in quo imitatur saith Saint Augustine To follow Christ is to be a Disciple of Christ Math. 28.19 to be a Disciple is to be a Christian For they that at the first were called Disciples Act. 11.26 afterwards at Antioch began to be called Christians Then to follow Christ is to become good Christians by the imitation of Christ And this is the first step to the office of the ministery he must first be a good man that will be a good Minister And this first step you beloued of the Laitie must tread with vs. For though to follow Christ be here propounded as the first staire to the office of preaching the word yet else where our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles make it a common dutie belonging to all that beare the name of Christ