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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97361	Seaven sermons. [sermons 1 and 2 only] preached vpon severall occasions. Viz. 1 The Christians prayer for the Churches peace. One sermon on Psal. 122.6. 2 One sermon on 1 Sam. 2.30 3 Baruchs sore gently opened; Gods salve skilfully applyed. In two sermons on Jeremy 45.5. 4 The araignement of coveteousnesse. In three sermons on Luke 12.15. By John Stoughton, Doctor in Divinitie, late of Aldermanburie, London.; Sermons. Selected sermons	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.	1640 (1640)	STC 23311_PARTIAL; ESTC S117838	33,512	94

the 22. of Esay and the 12. verse When God did call for mourning in regard of the estate of the Church and men ran to madnes and merriment he was infinitely provoked by it As I remember a common wealth when the kingdome and state was in great trouble a great many young ruffins being in a taverne were drinking and they used to crowne there heads with rushes which being done one of them lookt out at the window which did so provoke the state that they tooke away his head for it And that in Haggai Is it time for you to dwell in seiled houses and my house not built saith the Lord. It is not worth the while to mind our owne houses whilst Gods house lyes in the Dust To point at 2. or 3. places in the New Testament Saint Pauls affection in this kind that same in comparable affection in Rom. 9. 3. is not to be expressed in which he paralelled Moses if not surpassed him 〈◊〉 desire to be accursed from Christ for my brethrcus sake It noteth his infinite superlatiue affection towards them So in the 2 Cor. 11. 28. Phil. 1. 18. Col. 2. 5. You shall find how Saint Paul expresseth that all the care of all the Churches lay upon him As it was in the old law the Priest was never to enter into the holy of holiest but hee must haue his ornaments about him all the twelue tribes to offer them up to God So it was Saint Pauls case and should be every ministers and every Christians in their station but I forbeare I shall giue the grounds of the point in a word from the severall parcells which we haue touched in the explication Euery one of those make a contribution to raise the summe of a sufficient reason whether wee consider The Nature of Ierusalem or The Nature of Peace or The Nature of Prayer or The Nature of a Christian You shall find it strongly demonstrated in all these That it is the duty of every Christian to pray for the peace of Jerusalem Doe but First consider the Nature of Ierusalem what Jerusalem is the Church of God and in it there is a double relation 1. If you looke vpward the relation it hath to God it is the house of God it is the Spouse of Christ and can there bee a dearer relation to put a deeper ingagement vpon us then to tender the spouse of Christ 2. Or if you looke downeward in the relation shee hath to us Shee is the Mother of us all all the Saints of God are all the daughters of Ierusalem all members of the Church there is a naturall vnion and comunion betweene them and there should be a fellow-feeling of the good or ill of the whole by every particular member Or if you consider Peace it is the summe of all blessings it comprehends all blessings in the bosome of it The ancients were wont to paint peace with a horne of plenty 1. Peace it is the mother of all other prosperities and blessing arts and sciences trades and every thing flourish with peace and all wither if peace bee gone warre blasts all And it is not onely the mother of all inferiour blessings but 2. It is a very carefull and usefull nurse to cherish religion religion receiveth a great deale of advantage by peace as in the Acts The Church had peace and increased exceedingly As a Generall said sometimas when one came to him for justice what doest thou talke to mee of justice saith hee I cannot heare the noise of Law and justice for the sounds of the drumms There is no hearing of the Law of God the Law of justice when men haue their swords in their hands there can be no roome for religion to grow up and thriue if there bee not peace to giue it a station and a setled place 3. Or if you consider the Nature of Prayer What prayer is to mention onely the efficacy and necessity of it I. It is the most efficacious engine the summe of all policies for a Christian to worke by for Peace Is it not God that ruleth all the world and hath all hearts in his hands he can make the very stones to be at peace with a man he soders men together Peace and warre depends upon him and prayer rules God he suffreth himselfe to be overcome by Prayer Let me alone saith God by prayer a Christian ●etcheth all from God what is in Gods power is a Christians by prayer Yea there is such an efficacy in it that all the pollicies of all the men in the world is nothing to Prayer because God is abou● all and can blast all II. It is of great necessity also God will not bestow blessings but when a people will seeke him and sue to him for them and the reason is because he shall haue little honour by it if it came without our seeking it from God we should ascribe it to some other way God should have no honour by it but when it commeth begged by prayer it appeareth to be the worke of God and God hath the glory of it So that hee doth not bestow ordinarily blessings upon any but at the request of his people where hee hath a people Or Lastly If you consider the nature of a Christian take him in relation to all these three former or take him in another relation we shall adde A godly man it is the most proper worke for him that can be imagined he cannot bee excused of it I. He is a Sonne of Ierusalem it becommeth him at least to pray hard for his mother he is an vnnaturall child that will not open his mouth to saue mischeife from his mother As the Son of Cras●s that never sp●k● before the dumbe child through vehemency of tender affection seeing one goe about to kill his father cryed ou● O man wil● thou kill Crasus it opened the dumbe mans mo 〈…〉 that could not speake before to plead for his father in a case of danger So should it be withus for our Mother Ierusalem II. Every child of God is as a son of Ierusalem so a sonne of Peace we are the sonnes of the God of peace and sonnes of the Gospell of peace and have all the ingagements of 〈◊〉 the spirit is a spirit of Peace the spirit of the Dove shall rest upon the spirit of the sonnes of God they are the sonnes of Peace III. He is the sonne of Prayer it should be the very Element saith Nazia●●●● in which wee draw our breath to run towards God and towards Heaven in the way of Prayer So that a Christian that is the Sonne of God the Sonne of Ierusalem the Sonne of peace and the Son of prayer by all these necessary tyes is bound to pray for the peace of Ierusalem And so much the more because he is inabled when others cannot he hath ability and power as he is the Sonne it is in his hand and he is able to be sensible of Ierusalem and to pray

as a man carries himselfe toward God as hee ought to doe There is no honour but is subiect to mutability it is an vnstable and slippery place The very state of honour even when it is in the very flower and height and excellency of it yet then it is a very slippery place In the next place It is a very hard and difficult thing to mannage 3 Doct. Munus diffi●●le honour without danger And then again though I know that it might have bin martialled otherwise and preferred a little higher but yet here it is more proper for my scope there will bee another part which is All honour is not from the earth but from heaven 4. Doct. Ortu● cal●stis from God It is God that raiseth to honour and he that ruines it is he that puls downe it is God that rules all all is from him the disposing of honour is in the hand of God as in Heraldry it is a received maxime that the King is the fountaine of honour it is most true here the King of heaven is the fountaine of honour The equitable rule of Justice by which God doth dispence or deny honour is according as men doe 5. Doct. 〈◊〉 Equa●ile honour or despise God And that is exprest in the last words for them that honour mee I will honour and they that despise mee shall be lightly esteemed For the first Point That the service of God 1. Doct. in the Ministery howsoever the world account it contemptible yet it is a very honourable function Briefly to open the point There are but two things and that in a word 1. Expl●●atio proposit 〈◊〉 I shall speake of I. What service and what ministery is honourable II. How and in what respect it is honourable I. What service and what ministery is honourable 1. Quod In a word that service is honourable wherin a man is in imediate attendance vpon God and that belongs to his speciall family as it were as Ministers doe the service of those is honourable First whether it bee legall in those that lived under the state of the law it was an honourable place and service then to belong to God even in the legall services and sacrifices of the Temple Therefore in the Second place for the Apostle so reasoneth if the services and employments that were legall vnder the law were honourable much more those services that are Evangelicall under the Gospell There being so many things that doe much advance and nothing that doth impure that honour there is no reason to thinke that it should suffer disadvantage in the state of the Gospell if the legall service were so honourable then is the Evangelicall service in the ministery for that hath not lost but rather gained in point of nour but Secondly How must it bee understood in what sence and in what respect is this service 1. Quomodo of God honourable in one word there may bee A double honour and A double right to that honour 2. Quoad A double honour A Civill honour and a Spirituall Honour and it is true these can 1. Qualitatem Duplex honor Civilis Spiritualis hardly bee separated among men but the thing I speake of aimes not at civill honour that the service of the ministery is honourable in civill respects that there is a civill honour due to them more or lesse is plaine for it is impossible that if there bee a spirituall honour due to any but that men that understand themselves should make some expression of it in some civill way but the spiritual honour is that which I aime at now besides this double honour there is A double right and title to this honour any 2. Duplex 〈◊〉 Pers●na Officio person may be honourable or an office may bee honourable honour may bee either in regard of the person or in regard of the office it selfe Some mens persons are of that worth as he said sometime when others were striving who should sit highest at the feast place mee where you will I will honour the place where my selfe sits Some men by their worth may obtaine and command more honour then the eminency of the place doth afford As a Giant being in the bottome of a well though hee be in a very low place yet he is a Giant and a great man still and a dwarfe though hee bee upon high upon the top of a mountaine yet he remaines a dwarfe still Personall respects may deserve honour may give a man title to honour and so in that respect their may be honour due to an inferiour office but I meddle not now with personall honour that may belong to this or that Minister in regard of his personall excellencie but the thing that I aime at for the present is That the very office of the ministery is ipso facto honourable though their be not in a man personall Eminencies that may command speciall respect yet if hee be in the place of the Ministery there is an honour due to him in respect of his place and in respect of his Office Not that I entend here to make a vi● with honour as some Papists have done as one of them said If he should meet with an Angell and a Priest together he would first doe his duty to the Priest and then afterward salute the Angell but I am sure in some respects the office of the ministery is not inferiour to the Angelicall office I shall say no more for the opening of the point For the proofe of it in a word I shall likewise 〈◊〉 be very sparing but I cannot altogether omit it First of all for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it that it is so I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall forbeare particular testimonies of scripture supposing the thing to be plaine enough Those titles and many other things given to them and those many records in scripture may make it appeare clearely that the service of the ministery is an honourable service but I Scriptura will give but a touch of some few things In the first beginnings of the world and of mankind the Priesthood and service of God proportionable to those times did descend to the birth-right the eldest and most honourable in the family did succeed in the Priesthood To omit the conceits of the ancient Poets of those times whose speeches were Rex amicus rex idem hominum at● sacerdos it was not strange to have a man a Priest of the most high God and a king of regions but yet in scripture wee know that Melchisedec was King of Salem and Priest of the most high God but afterward vnder the Law though it pleased God to sever these two Ruben was the first borne among his brethren and so had the right of Priesthood by nature and so the Sacerdoticall dignity should have rested upon him yet you know how God by his father Iacob the Spirit of God directing