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A77605	Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4938; Thomason E684_28; ESTC R207067	29,466	37

should much rejoyce and blesse the Lord if he would be pleased to work such a thorow work of grace upon all your hearts as that I might without sinne dispence all the precious things of Christ to you Ah t is not a joy but a real grief to my soul that others han't that right and can't come to those Ordinances which God hath made so sweet and advantagious to me and many others of the sons of Sion Oh! how willing should I be and those that walk with me to give you the right-hand of Fellowship if we could but see that the Lord has taken you into fellowship with his blessed Self that so the Ordinance might be a cordial and not poyson to you I do professe before the Lord that I do from my soul forgive you the wrong and injuries that you have done me or attempted to do God has been good to me notwithstanding my failing towards him and my sins against him And the sense of his love and rich goodness makes my bowels to earn towards you Oh! 'T is a mercy more worth then a world to me that God hath given me such a frame of spirit as that I can pray for your souls and weep over your sins and that I am ready to serve you in all those waies wherein I may further the eternall welfare of your souls c. Lihnod lelammed Wee therefore learn that we may teach is a Proverb among the Rabbins I could have dealt with you in another way had I not intended the good of your souls Jer. 44.15 ult Acts 20.26 27. Ezek. 3.17 18 19. 1 Cor. 9.20 21 22. John 12.48 2 Cor. 5.10 Rom. 8.28 Micah 7.8 9 10. Jer. 20.9 10 11 12. Mal. 3.17 18. Isa 49. 4 5. Prayer is porta coeli clavis paradisi the gate of Heaven a key to let us in to Paradise Heb. 3 7-12 Nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyperbolen A man cannot hyperbolize in speaking of Christ and Heaven Omne bonum in summo bono All good is in the chiefest good Isai 1.16 17. Make use of me in any thing wherein I may serve you without sin and see whether I shall not be willing to act for your good notwithstanding all provocations to the contrary 5. For a close because I would not be over tedious I shall draw many things within a narrow compasse you may be confident that my end in writing is your due conviction and satisfaction that you may weigh my Arguments and clearly see that 't is not will nor humour c. but Conscience Reason and Religion that acts me If notwithstanding what I have said you shall continue in your malice envy hatred c. I shall have comfort in this that I have in all faithfullnesse freed my selfe from being guilty of the blood of your souls and in that I have declared to all the world my willingnesse to serve the interest of your souls in all chings wherein I may without sin And most confident I am that if what I have written do not better you it will be a witnesse against you when you and I shall meet before Christs judgement seat And confident I am that God will bring much good to me out of all the plots designs and actings that have been or that shall be by vain men against me And confident I am that the more you stir in any way of basenesse or wickednesse the more the Lord will make you to stink and the more contempt he will pour upon you and the more bright he will cause my innocency to shine and the more weighty shall be my Crowne in the day of Christ My desires for you before the Lord are these That you may have such a sight of your sins as may work you to kisse the Son lest he be angry and you perish when his wrath is kindled but a little And that you may not trifle away the day of grace and the things that belong to your eternall peace least God should swear in his wrath that you shall never enter into his rest Oh that in the light of the Spirit you may see Christ to be the greatest good the most desireable good the most necessary good the most suitable good to be a totall good an only good and an eternall good that so your souls may in good earnest fall in love with Christ and may cry out with that Martyr None but Christ none but Christ Oh none but Christ to save us and none but Christ to rule us none but Christ to justifie us and none but Christ to command us Oh that you may cease from doing evill and learn to do well that so you may be happy in life blessed in death and glorious in the morning of the Resurrection FINIS

CASES CONSIDERED and RESOLVED WHEREIN All the tender godly conscientious Ministers in England Whether for a Congregationall or a Presbyteriall way are concerned OR Pills to Purge Malignants And all prophane ignorant and scandalous persons But more particularly Calculated for the Meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill from those grosse conceits that they have of their Childrens right to Baptisme and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord c. ALSO Good Councell to bad men Or friendly advise in severall particulars to unfriendly Neighbours By THOMAS BROOKS a willing Servant unto God and the Faith of his People in the glorious Gospel of Christ at Margarets Fishstreet-hill Mallem ruere cum Christo quam regnare cum Caesare Luther Si veritas est causa discordiae mori possum tacere non possum Jerome LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock and are to be sold at the first Shop in Popes-Head-Alley next to Cornhill 1653. To the Conscientious READER THe World is full of Books and of how many may it be said That they doe but proclaim the vanity of the writer and procure wearinesse if not vexation to the Reader in this knowing and censorious age What I have written is out of faithfullnesse to Christ and love to Souls If my pains shall prove advantageous for the internall and eternall good of any poor Souls I shall count it reward enough I doubt not but those that are spirituall will find something of the Spirit in what followes and for that cause will rellish and love it though others may therefore stand at the greater distance from it Surely where Truth comes the Children of Truth will entertaine it and aske no body leave In these dayes they that have least right to Ordinances doe make the greatest noise in crying out for Ordinances Gods Ordinances are choice pearles and yet too often cast before Swine which doubtlesse hath provoked the Lord to shed the blood of many among us who have unworthily drunk the blood of his Son and trampled it under their feet as an unholy thing Heb. 10.29 Though my Candle be but little yet I must not hide it under a bushell Though I have but one Talent yet I must not hide it in a Napkin I hope thou hast that anointing of the Spirit that will teach thee not to reject the fruit for the trees sake nor so much to mind the man as the matter But least I should hold thee long in the porch I will briefly acquaint thee with the Reasons that have induced me to present to the World what followes and so draw to a close The Reasons are these First That the honour truth and wayes of Christ which I hope are dearer to me then my life 1 Sam. 2.30 and which are struck at thorow my sides may be vindicated Secondly That the mouth of iniquity or which is all one Psal 107.42 Titus 1.11 Psal 63.11 that the foule mouths of prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous persons may be effectually stopt Thirdly That the honest just and righteous proceedings of the Honourable Committee may be manifested and not smothered by the false reports of any prophane malignant spirits that were present Isa 5.20 who are apt and ready enough to call good evill and evill good light darknesse and darknesse light c. Fourthly That the importunate desires of severall Ministers and Christians may be satisfied especially those to whom I preach c. Fifthly 2 Cor. 11. Ch. 10-ult Pro. 22.1 Eccles 7.1 That my Ministry and good name which should be dearer to me then my life may be vindicated A good name is rather to be chosen then great riches and loving favour rather then silver and gold a good name is better then precious ointment saith Solomon Eccles 7.1 The initiall letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tob that in this Text is rendred good is bigger then ordinary to shew the more then ordinary excellency of a good name amongst men The Moralists say of fame or of a mans good Name Omnia si perdas The French have this Proverb among them That a good renown is better then a golden Girdle famam servare memento Qua semel amissa postea nullus eris i. e. Whatsoever commodity you lose be sure yet to preserve that Jewell of a good Name But if any shall delight to blot and blur my name that their owne may shine the brighter I shall desire them frequently to remember a sweet saying of Austin Quisquis volens detrahit famae meae nolens addit mercedi meae He that willingly takes from my good Name unwillingly addes to my reward Mat. 5.11.12 The remembrance of this and the bird in the bosome conscience singing makes a Heaven of joy in my heart 2 Cor. 1.12 in the middest of all the trialls that doe attend me Sixthly That others may be undeceived who are apt enough to judge that there are other things and worse things charged upon me then indeed there is Jer. 20.10 11. Psal 35.11 And indeed some say already that there were eighteen things others that there were six and twenty things charged against me and all this to render my person and my doctrine contemptible in the World c. Seventhly That the Malignant and profane Petitioners and others of their stamp may be either satisfied convinced and reformed or that they may be found speechlesse and without excuse in the day of Christ Eightly Because my case is a generall case and reaches all the godly conscientious Ministers in England be they of one judgement or another And clearly if upon the following Charge against me the prophane ignorant and Malignant party should out and rout the godly Ministers in the Nation I wonder where there would be found a conscientious Minister that should not upon these grounds be outed and routed Reader I desire that thou wouldest cast a mantle of love over the Mistakes of the PRINTER I having no opportunity to wait on the Presse by reason of my many Engagements other wayes I will not by any Prolepsis detaine thee at the doore but desire that the God of all consolations would blesse thee with all externall internall and eternall blessings that thy actions may be prosperous thy troubles few thy comforts many thy life holy thy death happie and thy soule lodged for ever in the bosome of Christ So I remaine Thine so farre as thou art CHRISTS Thomas Brooks A SHORT PREAMBLE That I intended to make before the Honourable Committee for Plundred Ministers that Truth and my Selfe might be the better vindicated and cleared Gentlemen 'T Was a Divine saying of Seneca No man sets a better rate upon vertue a Qui boni viri famam perdidit ne conscientiam perderet Seneca then he that looseth a good Name to keep a good Conscience He that hath a good conscience sits Noah-like quiet and still in the greatest combustions and

distractions Conscientia pura semper secura A good Conscience hath sure confidence it makes a man as bold as a Lyon Proverbs 28.1 I remember Calvin writing to the French King saith that Opposition is Evangelij genius the black Angel that doggs the Gospel at the heels And certainly where Christ is like to gain most and Satan like to lose most there Satan in his instruments will stir and rage most yet if every opposer of the Gospel and the Saints were turned into a Devil that old saying would be found true Veritas stat in aperto campo Truth stands in the open fields yea and 't will make those stand in whom it lives yea 't will make them stand chearfully resolutely and unmoveably in the face of the greatest highest and hottest oppositions Concerning these prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous Petitioners I shall say as Lactantius saith of Lucian Nec diis nec hominibus pepercit he spared neither God nor man such are these Petitioners 'T is said of Cataline that he was b Monstrum ex variis diversisque inter se pugnantibus naturis conflatum a compound and bundle of warring lusts and vices such are these Petitioners Historians say that Tygers rage and are mad when they smell the fragrancy of Spices such are these Petitioners when they smell the fragrancy of the Graces of Gods Spirit in the principles and practices in the lives and religious exercises of the people of God Gentlemen I am compelled to tell you that I have by the gracious assistance of God preached publiquely the Gospel above these thirteen years and the greatest part of those years I have spent in Preaching the word in London where God hath given me many precious seals of my Ministry which are now my comfort and in the day of Christ will be my Crown They are my living Epistles they are my walking Certificates they are my letters testimoniall as Paul speaks And yet in all this time none have shewed themselves so malicious 2 Cor. 3.1 2. impudent and ignorant as to Petition against me as these that stand now before you yet am I confident that this act of theirs shall work for my externall internall and eternall good Rom. 8.28 Judg. 14.14 And out of this eater God will bring forth meat and sweetnesse to others also Gentlemen I shall now trouble your patience no further but come now to answer to the things that these prophane Malignant Petitioners have charged against me in their Petition to this Honourable Committee TO THE HONORABLE COMMITTEE FOR Plundred Ministers The humble Petition of the Parishioners of Margaret New-Fishstreet London whose Names are hereunto subscribed SHEWING THat one Mr. Thomas Brooks was by Order of your Honours dated the twenty third of March 1651. appointed to Preach for a Moneth next ensuing as Probationer to the end that upon the Parishioners and the said Mr. Brooks mutual tryal of each other the said Mr. Brooks might continue or your Petitioners have some other to officiate amongst them Your Petitioners are humbly bold to offer to your Honours consideration that they have had tryal of the said Mr. Brooks ever since your Honours Order but cannot finde that comfort to their soules they hoped nor indeed is the said Mr. Brooks so qualified to your Petitioners understandings as to remain any longer with them And further your Petitioners say that the said Mr. Brooks refuseth to afford your Petitioners the use of the Ordinances of Baptism and the Lords Supper nor will he bury their dead The Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honours will be pleased to revoke your Order and give liberty to your Petitioners for six Moneths to present a fit person to your Honours to be their Minister and in the mean time that Sequestrators may be appointed to provide for the service of the Cure out of such money as shall arise for tithes out of the said Parish And c. QUERIES Upon the Malignants PETITION Gentlemen IN their Petition they say that I was to preach a Moneth as Probationer and after a mutual tryal of each other I might continue or the Petitioners have some other to officiate amongst them To this I say 1. That I never had any such thing by one or other propounded to me to preach amongst them as Probationer It was onely thus propounded to me That at a full meeting I was chosen by the honest and well affected of the Parish to come and preach amongst them And I did more then twice or thrice declare to them before I came that if they did expect any thing else of me I would not come Onely I did declare my willingnesse to receive any among them into Fellowship with us that the Lord had taken into Fellowship with himself and that were willing to walk in Gospel-order 2. I say that had they propounded the business to me as t is presented in their Petition I would never have come upon such terms and that upon several reasons which here I shall omit 3. I say that they had a tryal of me all the Winter I preached above twenty Sermons on the Lecture-nights before this Order was granted or desired therefore I know not to what purpose I should preach among them upon tryal when they had before-hand so large a tryal of me 4. I say that these prophane malignant Petitioners had neither a hand in chusing of me nor yet hearts to make any tryal of my ministry so far as I can understand and therefore they may well have a black brand put upon them as men void of common honesty and ingenuity in abusing the Honourable Committee and petitioning against me When as they were neither the major part of the Parish by far nor yet was the Order of the Committee granted to them nor did the Order of the Committee give any power or liberty to these prophane malignant Petitioners to chuse some other to officiate as they pretend what greater dishonour and contempt can they cast upon the Committee then to declare to the world that they have given to them that are so notoriously known for their prophaneness and malignancie an Order to chuse one to officiate amongst them In their Petition they further say That they have had tryal of me ever since your Honours Order this is as far from truth as the Petitioners are from being real friends to the present Authotity of the Nation For t is notoriously known that they use not to hear me but others whose malignant principles and practises are most sutable to their own Further they say they cannot finde that comfort to their soules they hoped Here give me leave to quere 1. How they could have any comfort from my ministry that did not attend it 2. But grant they did I Quere whether their want of comfort did not spring rather from their want of faith to close with the word and to feed upon the word and to apply the word to their own soules then from any

they offered violence to nature pulling out their own eyes because they could not look upon a woman without lusting after her Oh 't is not the hearing of Gospel-consolations that comforts but the knowledg of a mans interest in them that cheers up the heart Ah where is that word to be found in all the Book of God that does evidence comfort which is childrens bread to be of right belonging to prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous persons as you can't but know your selves to be if conscience be in the least measure awakned God hath all along in the Scripture made a seperation between sin and comfort and how then can you expect comfort who hold on in sinful wayes though love and wrath life and death heaven and hell be often set before you God is not prodigal of Gospel-consolations they are the best and strongest Wines in Gods Cellar and reserved onely for his best and dearest friends Isa 40.1.2 Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned c. The Hebrew word that is here rendred comfort signifies first to repent and then to comfort And certainly the sweetest joy is from the sowrest teares Tears are the Breeders of spiritual joy When Hannah had wept she went away and was no more sad The Bee gathers the best honey of the bitterest hearbs Christ made the best wine of water The purest the strongest and most excellent joy is made of the waters of Repentance Ah lay your hands upon your hearts and tell me whether you can look God in the face and say Lord we are thine First by Purchase Secondly we are thine by Choice Thirdly we are thine by Conquest Fourthly we are thine by Covenant Fifthly we are thine by Marriage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nahhamu nuhhamu from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nahham which signifies first to repent 1 Sam. 15.35 and then to comfort because true comfort belongs only to the penitent Divine comfort is a delicate thing and it is not given to him that admits any other saith Bernard Nulla verior miseria quam falsa loetitia Bernard There is no truer misery then false joy Nil nisi sanctum a sancto Spiritu prodire potest Neh. 8.10 There have been those that have died under the strength and power of their joy Valde protestatus sum me nolle sic satiari ab eo Luther I said statly that God should not put me off with these low things I have read of one who cried out with a loud voice to Flavius Vespasianus vuspem pilum mutare non mores that the Wolfe might change his hair but not his qualities You know how to apply it Isai 49.4 5. Ah if you are not the Lords in these respects what Minister on earth hath a commission to comfort you their commission is to read other Lectures to prophane ignorant scandalous persons c. then those of comfort and joy as you may see in these Scriptures if you will but take the pains to read them Psal 7.11 Psal 9.17 Psal 11.5 6. Psal 37.10 20. compared with Psal 75.8 Psal 145.20 Job 21.30 Prov. 11.5 21 31. compared Prov. 12.2 Prov. 14.19 Prov. 15.29 Prov. 21.18 27. Eccles 8.13 Isa 11.4 Isa 13.11 Jer. 25.31 Ezek. 3.18 19. Nah. 1.3 Mal. 4.3 Deut. 28.15 ult Levit. 26.14 ult Ah did you but wisely consider the excellency of Gospel-comforts above all other comforts in the world you would not wonder at Ministers giving them forth so sparingly to prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous persons For first Gospel-comforts are unutterable comforts 1 Pet. 1.8 Phil. 4.4 Secondly they are real Joh. 14.27 all others are but seeming comforts but painted comforts Thirdly they are holy comforts Isa 64.5 Psal 138.5 they flow from a holy Spirit and nothing can come from the Holy Spirit but that which is holy Fourthly they are the greatest and strongest comforts Ephes 6.17 few heads and hearts are able to bear them as few heads are able to bear strong wines Fifthly they reach to the inward man to the soul 2 Thess 2.17 the noble part of man My soul rejoyceth in God my Saviour Our other comforts onely reach the face they sinck not so deep as the heart Sixtly they are the most soul-filling and soul-satisfying comforts Psal 16. ult Can. 2.3 other comforts cannot reach the soul and therefore they can't fill nor satisfie the soul Seventhly they comfort in saddest distresses in the darkest night and in the most stormie day Psal 94.19 Hab. 3.17 18. verses Eightly they are everlasting 2 Thess 2.16 The joy of the wicked is but as a glass bright and brittle and evermore in danger of breaking but the joy of the Saints is lasting Aeterna erit exultatio quae bono laetatur aeterno Their joy lasts for ever whose object remains for ever 8. I Quaere whether you and men of your stamp remaining under the power of your lusts will ever say that you can finde any comfort at all in any mans ministry that is not a Common-prayer-book man or one that will give you and yours the Sacraments and lash at the power of godlinesse and at the State in preaching and praying c. doubtlesse under such a mans ministry were he never so ignorant scandalous or prophane you would plead that you found much comfort to your souls and that he was a man indeed for your money c. Well if you have found no comfort under my ministry yet my comfort is that my reward is with the Lord and my work with my God my comfort is that there are many hundreds in this City that have and that do finde comfort by the blessing and breathings of God upon my weak endeavours Further in their Petition they say that I am not so qualified to their understandings as to remain any longer with them To this I say First 't is my joy and crown that I am not so qualified as to please and content ignorant prophane malignant scandalous persons in their formality and impiety Remembring that he is the best Preacher * Non qui aures tetigerit sed qui cer pupigerit Male de me loquuntur sed mali saith Seneca not that tickles the ear but that breaks the heart 'T is a comfort to me that I am no neerer that woe Luk. 6.26 Woe be to you when all men speak well of you When one told Aristides that he had every mans good word saith he what evil have I done that I should have every mans good word 'T is sometimes more a shame then an honour to have the good word of prophane ignorant scandalous persons Latymer in his last Sermon before King Edward saith That he was glad when any objected indiscretion against him in his Sermons for by that he knew the matter was good else they would soon have condemned that 'T was a notable saying of Salvian * Mirum esset