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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21042	A caueat for Archippus A sermon preached at a visitation at White-Chappel Church in London, Septemb. 23. 1618. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods word at Epping in Essex.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1619 (1619)	STC 7411; ESTC S100112	17,799	50

the resolution of the Iudgement the gaining of the Affections the redresse of the Life these should be our aymes in dispensing of the Word Now for these trickes and cranckes this Grammaticall and Rhetoricall descant these ends of gold and siluer what help they to this businesse See what it is that a Minister should aime at 1. Corint 14. 24. 25. If all prophesie and one comes in that beleeues not the secrets of his heart are made manifest Hee will fall downe and say plainly that God is in you indeed At this should Ministers aime to dispense the word in that power and euidence of Gods Spirit that mens consciences may at least be conuinced that our Ministery is of God But few aime at this At this they aime rather that it may be said A fine wit is in them an eloquent tongue is in them things indeed not to be dispised but in the meane time regard not that it may be said of them God is in them substance and sauourie soliditie is in them 1. Corint 4. 19. I will come to you shortly and will know not the speech of them which are puffed vp but their power For the Kingdome of God is not in word no nor in words but in power Now alas what power haue such Corinthian flashes What power haue such Corinthian florishes what power hath such paper-shot to beate downe the strong holdes of Sathan They were not Trumpets of gold or siluer but of plaine Rammes hornes that layd flat the high walls of Hierico Labor so to blow the trumpet of the Ministerie that we may haue the spirit blow with it The spirit bloweth where it listeth It seldom or not at all lists to blow in a painted pipe Farre be from vs that humour of Cookes who seeke more for credit in making of puffe-paste and kicke-shawes then from dressing wholsome sauourie food When a man hath bestowed his best paines in that kinde that may be said of him which Austin Confess 1. 14. saith of Homer that he was dulcissime vanus Though it be sweet and pleasing to the eare yet it is but sweet vanitie VVhat is the life or conscience ere the holier for these knackes Giue me leaue to close this point with the two former with that sauory counsel of that reuerēd father B. Babington in Leu. 7. Are you a Minister called of God to leauen his people with good leauen Looke how ye do it and be painfull faithfulnesse will be crowned when slothfulnesse wil be condemned and will condemne you And submit your selfe to the profit of your people not hunting after your owne glorie that you are thus and thus and so learned eloquent profound and so foorth If your people profit not because you flie too high a pitch for them and scorne to lay a foundation of the Catechisme amongst them you will be found an vnprofitable seruant at the Reckoning day one that hath gained nothing to his Lord but hath hid his talent in the fowle napkin of fruitlesse matter and idle figures of affected speech Spoken like a Bishop spoken like a Father 5. Constantly This crownes all the rest He fulfilles not his race who hauing an hundred miles to runne sits downe at ninety nine He fulfills not his Ministerie that giueth it ouer before his daies are fulfilled Though all the former be done yet if in this we faile our Ministerie is vnfulfilled Therefore Paul ioynes the fulfilling of his Ministerie and his Course together Acts 20. 24 and Reu. 11. 7. the two witnesses finished their liues and their testimonies together Herein many faile and come short of fulfilling their Ministerie being too too like that Hetrurian Idoll who whilest he was in the woods in a mean country fashion Crebra dedit quondam populo responsa petenti But when once the people out of their loue and affection to their Idoll built him a marble Temple and placed him there Illico diuitijs obmutuit ille repertis Vrbanus seruus seruorum Dei Monacho fernent●ssimo Abbati calido episcopo lepido Archiepiscopo remisso Wrote Pope Vitā to Baldwine sometime Archbishop of Canterburie ex Vs●ie de Christ eccles His preferments made him pursie and he had now done giuing Oracles How many in their first beginnings are wondrous painfull and industrious and deserue wel worthily of the Church of God but as yeares and preferments come vpon them slacke and abate their former diligence and seem both to say as those Zach. 11. 5. Blessed be God for I am rich as if therefore they may be idle because they are rich and that which is worse to do with them And their owne shepheards pitie them not and so cast a suspicion vpon themselues that they made the staires into the Pulpit to be but steps vnto preferment But what is the issue Let Experience be witnesse How many whom God hath filled with the gifts of knowledge and vtterance are againe emptied and depriued of them because they haue not made conscience in the vse of them to fulfill their Ministerie Zach. 11. 17 we shall finde a terrible threatning His arme shall be cleane dryed vp and his right eie vtterly darkned Against whom may this threatning be O Idoll shepheard that leaueth his flocke whether it be in regard of presence or paines When men will be Idoll shepheards hauing gifts and mouthes and speake not God in his iustice will make them further Idoll like they shall haue eyes and see not God will dimme and darken their right eye yea put it out and depriue them of that excellent gift of Knowledge which they haue not cared to imploy in the Churches seruice Psal 137. 5. 6. If I forget Ierusalem let my right band forget her cunning yea let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I preferre not thee to my chiefest ioy What may be the reason that many a mans right hand hath forgot her cunning Because his arme is cleane dried vp But why is his arme so dried vp as that his hand hath forgot her cunning Surely the Idoll shepheard hath forgotten Ierusalem Therefore it is that his tongue cleaues to the roofe of his mouth because his heart cleaueth to this world and the bent of it is so pitched vpon the prosecution of secular things the preferments of the world that Ierusalem is not preferred to his chiefest delight Therefore cleaueth his tongue to the roofe of his mouth not onely in regard of negligence but of insufficiencie God hauing a plague no lesse for the Idoll shepheards tongue then his arme and his eye I know indeed there may be a dispensation where age and painfulnesse haue disabled naturall faculties and I know that the aged Leuite whose hands begin now to tremble with the often and diligent lifting of the heauie Axe hath a permission to discharge him the cleauing of the Sacrifices yet in the strength and vigour of a mans best gifts and yeares to giue out this I know not how to excuse I know some

pleade bodily indisposition and weakenesse but the question is whether the body or the plea be weakest Timothy was surely weake and but a sickely tuely man yet Paul that prescribes him to drinke a little wine for his stomacks sake and often infirmities yet neuer prescribed him but a little preaching Nay though a weakely sickely man yet he charges him before the Iudge of quicke and dead to preach in season and out of season strange counsell one would thinke for a weake body I deny not but God will haue mercie and not sacrifice yet take we heed of pretended disabilities and of making our selues weaker then God hath made vs. What our bodies will beare without a manifest and dangerous iniurie to them let them beare it in the name of God for the good of many soules These bodies of ours must perish and be consumed at last when we haue made the most of them we can In what more honourable seruice can we spend them then in the seruice of the Church For a man to spend his body in the worke of the Ministerie I hold it the next degree of honour to the crowne of Martyrdome Yea euen the aged Leuite though his shaking hands be discharged the seruice of he Axe yet must not be idle Num. 8. 26. Attamen seruito fratribus Sic Iunius suis to wit though he cleaue not the sacrifices yet let him counsell aduise direct and instruct the iunior Leuites in the seruice of the Tabernacle and so still minister to his brethren And thus is the Ministerie fulfilled in the fidelitie of dispensation The second point and part followes The fulfilling of the Ministerie in holy Conuersation A mans Ministerie standeth not all in preaching the life of his Ministerie is his life Hee is but halfe a Minister that preacheth as hee should Hee is compleate and fulfills his Ministerie that preaches and liues as he should Though a man should speake with the tongue of men and Angels and yet in the meane time be an angel of darkenesse he is but a tinckling Cimball and a Bell without a Pomegranate The Scripture complaines of Idoll shepheards What may an Idoll shepheard be He that is like to Idols How they are described see Psal 115. 5 7. Mouthes they haue and speake not feete they haue and walke not So then not onely he that hath a mouth and speakes not but he also that hath a foote and walkes not is an Idoll shepheard not onely the dumbe but also the lame shepheard is Idoll-like Therefore Theophylacts note is witty Mat. 5. 2 Christ opened his mouth taught the people He makes a question whether the first word be not superfluous or no for how could Christ teach but he must open his mouth He answers that these words were not idle because Christ did sometimes teach and opened not his mouth viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by his life and miracles but now he opened his mouth and taught them by doctrine This this is that that gaines credit and regard to our Ministerie and persons euen from our very enemies For Mar. 6. 20. Herod feared Iohn knowing that be was an holy and a iust man Not because he was a great man or learned or a powerfull preacher though these also but because an holy and a iust man Holinesse casts a more dreadfull dazling and sparkling lustre then any other accomplishment whatsoeuer Herod was greater but Iohn was holier therefore Herod feares Iohn The common complaint is that the Ministery is contemptible basely accounted of I would the complaint were not too true but may a man be so bold as to inquire into the causes of it Among many other questionlesse this is none of the least the vnholy scandalous liues of some in the Ministerie frō whose personall scandalls the iniudicious multitude concludes the calling it selfe base The Prophet Malachi points at this Mal. 2. 8. 9. Therfore I haue made you base and contemptible before all the people Wherefore see verse 8. Ye are gone out of the way yee haue caused many to fall by the Law yee haue broken the couenant of Leut which conenant see what it was ve 5. 6. for this cause God made them base and contemptible Let no man despise thy youth 1. Tim. 4. 12. He sayes not only to the Corinthians of Timotheus Let no man therefore despise him 1. Cor. 16 11. but to Timotheus himselfe Let no man despise thee Why lies our credit in our owne keeping is it in our power to keep our selues from contempt From iust cōtempt it is else should Paul haue said Let none of the people despise Timothies youth and not haue giuen this counsell to Timothie But how must hee preserue him selfe from contempt but be an example to all that beleeue in word in conuersation in loue in spirit in faith in purenesse Because these holy endowments are wāting hence is it that the Ministery is so contemptible The more shame for such and the greater iudgement will it be to such who by their vnholy liues bring this contempt vpon this calling and cause the dirt and filth of their vicious courses to be cast in the faces of all May I not taxe and take vp a number of dissolute ones in the Ministerie as Apollonius girds vp the false prophet of the Montanists Propheta Euseb 5. eccl his dic quaeso ludit tesseris ac tabulis Propheta foeneratur I may adde many such interrogatories as Propheta saltat iurat bibit scortatur I should almost shame to english these things but that these fellowes are not ashamed of their courses What Prophets and gamesters Prophets and dicers dauncers drunkards swearers c. Are these our Propheticall endowments Haue wee not the spawne of that cursed crue Esay 56. 11. 12 yet liuing amongst vs who in stead of saying Come let vs fulfill our Ministery they say Come I will bring wine and we will fill our selues with strong drinke If filling of pots filling of cups and Tabacco pipes if filling their bellies if this were to fulfill the Ministerie oh how iollily had these discharged their taskes These be those bruits that come within compasse of Nehemiah his Memento Nehem. 13. 29 Remember them O Lord which defile the priesthood Yes yes God will remember them though they forget him yet he will not forget them God of all things will not brooke the defilement of the priesthood Num. 12. 1 we shall find Aaron and Miriam both in the same sin of murmuring against Moses yet in the processe of the story verse 10 only Miriam is smitten with the leprosy Both were in the same sin what was the reason onely Miriam is in the punishment Is God partiall God forbid What thē might be the reason Surely me thinks Chrysostome giues a passing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. 3. ad Coloss good one That Aaron was not smitten with the leprosie for the dignity of the priesthood lest the inflicting of such an vnclean disease on