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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

14.2 10.20 Ezek. 44.1 Ephes 2.6 Next to se●d the Holy Ghost unto us Iohn 16.7 Had he not left the Earth the Holy Ghost in such a measure had not bin sent nor given Iohn 7.30 Lastly That he might lead captivity captive Ephes 4.8 and so make a perfect triumph over those spirits whom he had conquered on the crosse Col. 2. Vse The doctrine of the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament taught and maintained by Papists cannot stand with this now delivered what businesse hath he now upon the Earth Object But Mat. 28. ult I am with you to the end of the world Resp True Spiritually by the assistance of his Spirit What is this concerning his corporall presence which is in the Heavens and there must be contained till his comming unto Judgement Vse 2 Next conclude we hence if it were no place for him who is our Head then it cannot be any place of continuance for us who are his members We so soone as we have finished our course must depart hence too It shall be our wisdome then so to thinke and accordingly prepare Say not with Peter It is good for us to be here let us build here our Tabernacles But say and judge with Paul If wee heere had onely our hope wee were of all men most miserable Vse 3 And while we are here let our hearts be in Heaven our affections longings conversation as we are willed Colos 3.1 Like a wheele saith Hilary which though it continually roule upon the Earth yet it hath its greatest part from of the Earth You see in nature every member will have recourse to the head because that gives life and motion to the rest of the body So seeing Christ our Head hath left this world and is now in Heaven sitting at the right hand of God his Father let us desire to be with him And when we see death comming towards us by the harbingers that go before as aches pains sicknesses gray-haires let our spirit revive within us as old Father Iacobs did when he saw the Chariots and Horses that his son Ioseph sent for him to come into Aegypt Vse 4 Lastly If we would find Christ indeed seek him not in this world nor in the things of this world in so doing we seek the living amongst the dead Surrexit non est hic He is risen he is not here He tooke out two pence and gave them to the Host. Text. Here you see what is left to supply this mans wants and need and with whom he left it with the Host That I note from the letter of the Parable shall be this Doct. Mony at an Inn beares the mastery that makes welcome What Salomon saith of it in the generall is most true in this particular Argontum respondet omnibus money answereth all things Eccles 10 19. this causeth attendance furnisheth the Table fils the Cup opens Locks commands all yea Conscience it selfe many times not excepted that in an Inne is at the beck and command of mony A point so evident that it will seeme time mispent to stand upon any long or large confirmation of it Therfore for Use Vse 1 It may be our wisdome to distinguish betwixt Alehous-friendship and true friendship There no longer pay no longer play Friends there are well read in Theognes They seeme with the tongue to flatter all but in their deeds they love none at all they are like Aristotles fallations and falling Starrs Eccles 6. Videntur non sunt It is the mony they are friends unto while that lasts they will be as thy selfe and at thy service but if that be gone thou shalt find them faile thee as Pompey did Cicero to whose house Tully flying for safeguard of his life Pompey slipt out at a backe doore and would not be seene Three things onely continue them Much spending little asking and taking nothing at all from them Myst In the Mystery The Ministers and Pastours of the Church are this Hoast Doct. Stabularij sum illi quibus dicitur Ite in orbē universum praedicate Evāgelium universae creaturae Amb in loc So they are in regard of their Authority in the Church though not over the soules and consciences of any in the Church yet therin they have rule and command as an Host hath in an Inne In which respect they are said to be Masters of the assemblies Eccles 12.11 Yea Princes of the Congregations Isa 43.28 And to have the oversight therof 1 Pet. 52 and the Rule Heb. 13.17 But besides this generall take we notice of some more speciall resemblances whence Gods Ministers may spell their duties If we consider what Saint Paul writeth to Timothy and Titus concerning a Ministers qualifications we shall find them every way fitted for such a 1 Tim 3 2. Tit. 1.6 16 calling 1 Tim. 3.9 Every one you know is not fit to be an Host First He would be no Youth that keeps an Inne it is requisite an Host should be staied and grave So a Minister he may not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and novice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est nup●r plātatus Ecles●aei situs quates craat cate●hu●●ni one rew en ered as it were into the Schoole of Christ In which respect under the Law we find that only such as were of t●irrty yeares of age were admitted to serve in the Tabernacle and Te●ple 2. An Host would be a man of an unblameable life and conversation So sh●uld a Minister A S●andalous person is not fit for that holy function Tit. 1.6 S. Paul to Titus willes he should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inculpatus one against whom no just exception can be taken None of Arons sons or seed who had any blemish in them might come neere the vaile nor stand before the Altar nor once presse to minister before the Lord Lev. 21.17 the sacrifice smells of the hand that offers it 3. An Host may not be wayward nor selfewilled Tit. 1.7 but of an affable courteous and pleasing carriage such must Gods Ministers be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 froward inflexible and stubborne but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 modest and gentle 1 Tim 3.3 passing by some injuries for peace sake endeavouring to give all good content that may bee and so far as may stand with a good conscience 1 Cor. 9.20 22. 1 Cor. 11.1 4. An Host may not be a wine-bibber or pot-companion 1 Tim. 3.3 Tit. 1.7 drink he may to his Guests and with his Guests but not quaffe nor sit by it So Gods Ministers may not bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given to wine under which one kinde all other kindes of that nature are forbidden He may use that creature for his necessity as 1 Tim. 5.23 Prov. 31.6 Yea and for delight too Iohn 2. but he may not sit at it till he be inflamed by it Isa 5.11 nor suffer his heart to be oppressed thereby and he made heavy for holy duties

followers 2 Pet 2.15 Iude 11. He is a meane person that drawes not some Clyents after him Even Theudas and Iudas shall have their foure hundereds to accompany them Vse 1 Which discovers the folly of those who beare out all Reproofs with this They are not singular And who is Did you ever know Adultery Drunkennesse c. to be without Clyents As Eliphaz said to Iob 15.7 8 9 10. So seemes the sinner to speake Am I the first in wickednesse that was borne Do I restraine sinne to my selfe what know I that others know not or do I that others have not done before With us are both the aged and the gray-headed much elder then thy father But let me tell these the way is broad that leads to Hell and there be passengers enough to accompany such as are bound that way Singularity is a fault in many yet it is a virtue and so to be esteemed when vice growes into fashion Mat. 5.46 Vse 2 See then that we be not infected with the contagion of bad example There will want no enticements unto evill if we have any inclination that way We need not be the first inventors of the trade there are who be before us and divers will accompany us The yce is broken for us the path beaten out and no inducements wanting to bring us into the snare Our watchfullnesse therefore should be so much the more especially considering the pronenesse of our nature apishly to imitate the worst Let but Corah kindle the fire two hundred and fifty Captaines will bring stickes to it and all Israell will be ready to warme themselves at it beeing kindled Further in that the Levite who was inferiour to the Priest followed after in the same Path and Practise Note Doct. Inferiours usually follow the example of their Superiours As the one doth so doth the other Pro. 29.12 Luk. 23.11 Gal. 2 13. The very Heathen had their Imaginary gods for guides as Iupiter or Mercury them they invocated them they imitated Augustus a learned Prince filled Rome with Schollers Tiberius with Dissemblers Constantine with Christians Iulian with Atheists nor is there any such authority given to sinne as by the example of Superiours There is a double beneficiall Use to be made of this Let them that are in Authority and place looke in a speciall manner to their lives It is the unhappy desire of wickednesse to be the ring-leader of sin Every accessary is faulty enough but the first Author is abhominable a● was Ieroboam of whose fact all agea ring with the accent of dishonour Ieroboam the s●nne of Nebat that made Israell to sinne Imitators of evill deserve punishment the abettours more but there is no Hell deep enough for the leaders of publik wickednes eminent persons in sinning with Sampson pull down these pillars of goodnesse that shall not only quash themselves but be the ruin of thousands Their facts become examples their examples Laws and it is usuall with men to follow the Law of Fact before the Law of Faith We read Ezra 9.2 When the people had taken them strange wives of the Idolatrous Nation it was told Ezra and with this addition that the heads of the Princes and Rulers were the cheife in this matter And Numb 25.4 We read that God charged Moses to take the heads amongst the People and to hang them up In the practise of sinne the chiefe and the most eminent are usually most faulty For the multitude as we say of Bees will follow their Master If Ieroboam will set up Calvish Deities he shall be sure of brutish subjects From whence hath growen all our strange disguises Fantasticall fashions painted faces apish gestures but from the example of leaders These are the party coloured rods after which inferiours conceive Till sin got courage from their example it went about like a fatherlesse child every one did shut their doores against it but when once Superiours tooke it in Inferiours fostered it and now it stands up in defiance Though it be a bastard it dares challenge the true heire and wrangle for the inheritance You that are above others give good examples be not to others examples of transgressions lest God make you examples of destruction in the end Vse 2 Secondly this concerns inferiors seeing we are al apt to follow let vs cast our eyes upon those patternes that are best worthy and preferre those Vice should have no whit the more credit with us because persons eminent and great do practise it they are Superiores caet●ri● but there is Superior supremis Eccles 5.8 He that is higher then the highest regardeth it and there be higher then they There is no respect of Persons with God the poorest may say to the richest as the Malefactour to his fellow on the crosse Thou are in the same condemnation with us Say not then I did it but there were better then I did so Such were in the Company whom I durst not displease c. It is better to preferre Gods honour then mans humour and at that day when Scepters and Sepulchers shall be all one you will finde that there is no Protection in any Lord against the Lord of Hoasts Againe observe we Doct. Evill doers are very like in their behaviour and manners As the Priest did so likewise the Levite The world is conformable unto it selfe Rom. 12.2 So 1 Kings 15.3 26 34. 16.2 26 31. 2 Kings 8.18 27. 13.6 11. 1 Kings 17.8 21.21 Iude 7. One uncleane Person imitates an other and verse 11 one Conspirator followes the tract of another So 2. Pet. 2 15. Sorcerers imitate Sorcerers and Act. 7.51 As the Father did so do the Children Reason And no marvell seeing they are Children of one Father They walke by one Law They are guided by one spirit and so cannot but walk in one and the same way Ps 1.1 Vse It may teach us to beware how we follow such if we would not be branded for sinners let vs not conforme unto their practises The world will sweare and lye couzen and defraud that it may grow rich If we do likewise we conforme unto the world The world like a Weather-cocke turnes with every wind if we do likewise we then conforme unto the world The world is impatient of reproofes and will not endure to be told of its faults if we do likewise we then conforme unto the world And in so doing can we expect to be distinguished from the men of this world either here or hereafter So much for the Letter of the Mystery yet further This Levite and Priest who here passed by without helping the wounded man though they looked on him no●e forth unto us the whole Mosaicall Law with the Sacrifices and Ceremonies of the same Sacerdos Levita praetereuntes legem sacrisicia vet Test denotant Chrysost All which look on man fallen and discover his sin but can neither help nor cure they leave man still wounded powring in neither oyle to