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spirit_n	father_n	son_n	soul_n	7,964	5	5.0256	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03930	The preachers president, or, The master and scholler in a sermon preached at a synode holden by the Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Chester, at Wigan in Lancashire, the 21 of Aprill, 1625 / by Iames Hyatt B. of D. and preachers of Gods Word at Liuer-poole.	Hyatt, James, fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 14038; ESTC S2753	13,491	24

Auditories are mixt so should our teaching be we are to sing at once both of Mercy and of Iudgement to bring new and old together out of our treasurie to powre Wine and Oile together into the wounds of our Patients and not to vse one salue onely for euery sore nor to harpe alwayes to them vpon one string And as our matter must be good spirituall food in it selfe and various fitted to their seuerall conditions so must it be cleanly dressed and disht vp and skilfully handled in the preparing of it for them and presenting of it to them Omne tulit punctum c. He beareth away the golden bell indeed that deliuereth a profitable speech in a pleasant stile whereas good matter slubbered vp in rude termes becomes both loathsome to the hearers and disgracefull to the teachers of it Salomon saith in the person of Christ that the lips of his Spouse and they are the preachers of his Church drop as the Hony Combe Cant. 4.11 Hony and Milke are vnder her tongue Now Hony and Milke we know are both sweet and wholesome pleasant in taste and good for nourishment so should a Preachers speech bee clothed with comely words which are as well delightfull to the Eare as profitable to the Hearer The Preacher saith Salomon in an other place did not only teach the people knowledge Eccles 12.9.10 and write words of truth and that which was vpright but he sought to find out acceptable or delightfull words to deliuer his matter in and so should we for our nature is soone wearie euen of good things vnlesse wee take pleasure in them And therfore mulcendi sunt auditores sermonis dulcedine ne vtilia inutiliter audiant wee are to seeke out delightfull words for our hearers least they heare the profitable matter which we speak of to them without any profit to themselues Diuinitie is a graue Matron who as she abhors garishnesse so she loues comelinesse And therefore they doe both alike offer her great indignitie who either pranke her vp in the light and vaine-fashion of wanton words or carelesly present her in a loose and ragged speech to the eares of their Auditors And therefore that we may rightly diuide the word of truth it concernes vs to be carefull that wee shew our selues as well skilfull as faithfull in the teaching of it least our negligent handling of it make it to be neglected of and vnprofitable to our hearers The last thing which they ascribe to Christ is that he was no respecter of mans person in these words neither carest thou for any man for thou regardest not the person of men Which also as it was true in Christ so ought it to bee in euery master For they which will goe about to please men saith Saint Paul are not the seruants of Christ when truth is to be taught Gal. 1.10 falshood to be confuted vice to be discouered and condemned and vertue to be countenanced and encouraged and that in the name and by the word of God what an high sinne were it for vs then to deale partially with men for loue or feare of their outward persons we may not do it and that we do it not let vs call to mind how Eliah behaued himselfe against Ahab 1. King 18.18 in condemning his Idolatrous courses and Elishah against Iehoram King of Israel when he was in the companie of Iehoshaphat the King of Iudah 2. Kings 3.13 and Nathan against Dauid in telling him of his Adulterie with Vriahs wife 2. Sam. 12.7 Luke 3.19 and Iohn Baptist against Herod in reprouing him for Herodias his brother Philips wife and for all the euill which Herod had done though these were Kings And to these might be added the examples of the Apostles and Apostolicke men in the times of the Primitiue Church who neither for loue nor hope nor feare nor any other respect would euer bee drawne to deale partially in their teaching the way of God to the world Let vs therefore follow their examples assuring our selues that what God spake to the Prophet Ieremie is in him spoken to euery one of vs. Gird vp thy loynes and arise Ier. 1.17 and speake vnto them all that I commaund thee be not dismayed at their faces least I confound thee before them And now from these things thus opened and applied to our Masters in Gods house I might gather many lessons too for our schollers to take out But because the time hath preuented me I will but point at two or three of them in a word and so conclude First then seeing our office is as Masters in Gods house to teach his people here you learners may see how you are to esteeme and what vse you are to make both of our office and persons First our office is to teach which infers that your dutie is to learne therefore it is not enough for you with patience to giue vs the hearing but you ought carefully to heed remember and carrie away what you heare for that is the end why masters teach their schollers not that they may tickle their eares with a tale for a while and so farewell but that they may be bettered in knowledge Secondly for our Persons this title of Teachers teacheth you how to esteeme and vse vs 1. Tim. 5.17 let the Elders which rule well saith the Apostle be counted worthy double honour especially they which labour in the Word and Doctrine which double honour hath beene euer vncontroleably acknowledged the honour of reuerence and maintenance such as befits our calling both which those which are taught by vs are bound by the Lawes of God and Nations freely and fully to affoord to vs. First for the honour of reuerence it is the Apostles owne exhortation to hearers 1. Thes 5.12 wee beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you and are ouer you in the Lord that you esteeme very highly of them in loue far their worke sake And indeed not to reuerence Ministers for their work sake is to despise God himselfe whose work they doe and whose Embassadors they are vnto you for so saith Christ he that despiseth you despiseth mee Luke 10.16 and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent mee Secondly for the honour of maintenance it is the Apostles owne rule too Gal. 6.6 let him that is taught in the Word make him that hath taught him partaker of all his goods or as our last translation renders it communicate vnto him in all good things meaning in the vse of all such outward and wordly blessings as God hath bestowed vpon the learner Nor is this any great matter saith he in an other place 1. Cor. 9.11 13 14. though carnall men may thinke it so that we should reap your carnall things seeing we haue sowen vnto you spirituall things nay it is Gods own ordinance that us they which waited at the Altar liued of the Altar so they which preach the Gospel should liue of the Gospel And therfore by force or fraud to detaine that from vs which the Lawes of God doe giue and of men doe confirme vnto vs for our maintenance is to dishonour vs and in vs to dishonour God Malac. 3.9 and to pull downe his curse vpon your selues and vpon all that you possesse Secondly seeing that which we are to teach is the way of God this teacheth you that you are to walke in it for that 's the end why men seeke to know wayes that they may trauell in them to the places which they desire to come to if you had not need to know this way what should we doe teaching of it to you and what vse else can a way be put to by you but to be trauelled in therefore when you haue learned it from vs walke in it accordingly or else our teaching and your learning of it will bring you neuer a whit the nearer to heauen Thirdly as we are to teach it in truth so are you to walke in it that is to beleeue and practise it only without adding your owne deuises to it and wholy without presuming to passe ouer any part of it vnpractised as occasion to doe it is offered vnto you for if any man shall adde vnto it God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in his Booke and if any shall take away from it Reu. 22.18 God shall take away his part out of the Booke of life Lastly as wee are to teach Gods way without respect of men or persons so are you to practise it too you may not conceale nor corrupt the truth in your words nor doe any thing contrary to equity or Christian Charity in your deeds neither for fauour of friends nor feare of great men nor hope of profit nor hatred of enemies nor contempt of Inferiours nor any other respect whatsoeuer for this is to set vp the Creature aboue the Creator God only is to bee loued and feared simply for himselfe and aboue all things else that are and all things else respectiuely to him as hee directs vs in his Word So that if any of you fauour an vniust cause for his sake whose cause it is in so doing you commit Idolatry making him whose vniust cause you so fauour your God in as much as you preferre him and his falshood before God and his Truth and therefore take heed that through respect of mens persons you renounce not your Religion and turne Infidels Amicus sit Plato magis amica veritas It is good for a man though to loue his friend well yet still to preferre the Truth before him And by our thus teaching and liuing and your thus learning and walking both wee and you shall be sure at the last to obtaine the end of our faith and paines which shall be the saluation of our soules Which God the Father grant to vs through the merits of his Sonne Christ Iesus and prepare vs to by the power of his ho-ho-Spirit to which Trinitie in Vnitie the only true immortal and inuisible God be ascribed all Praise Wisdome Maiestie Might and Dominion now and for euermore Amen FINIS