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A77792	A sermon preached in the French church, in London on the 29. day of August 1652 At the imposition of hands on Mr. Stouppe by John Bulteel, minister of the word of God. With the action and circumstances thereof.	J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5453A; ESTC R224358	34,618	48

they might be saved Consider thou Jonas the type of the body of our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore also of his Church thou seest him swallowed up by the Whale thou seest him devoured and thou hast some reason to believe it at the onely word at the twinckling of the eye of the Lord this monster vomits out Jonah upon the dry land a Herald ordained to go from thence to preach unto the Ninivites to a people aliens from the Church and dost thou find it strange that this poore Church which Popery as it were swallowed up God willing it having foretold it heretofore maugre her power and malice she hath vomited it up again and rendered it in our dayes and for to preach the Gospel more gloriously yea and that to our selves So then we bring that which the Apostles have brought have delivered unto us and have taught us and therefore let us retain and maintain these Doctrines And let us reject all false irregular and erroneous doctrines which have too much the vogue and sway in these Countreys For England that was heretofore a Paradise even as the Garden of the Lord is alas become a Bochim a valley of tears an Aceldama a field of blood a Golgotha and Mount of Calvary a Charnel of skulls a common sinke and sewer of all sorts of Heresies and that there are here among us as many or more sects and opinions than there are among all the reformed Churches in Europe There is a place near London named the Isle of dogs but alas how many kinds of dogs are there in this Island of England The sacred Scripture compares divers kinds of persons to dogs the a Mat. 7.6 prophane persons b Phil. 3.2 the Schismaticks c Isa 56.10 mercenary Pastors d Ps 22.17 the persecutors the Apostates and especially those may be called dogs that do bark against the Deity of God or the Trinity of persons e 2 Pet. 2.22 as Arrius Sabellian Servetus Socinus and other blasphemous Hereticks Such an one was Lucian a dog in condition who for his impiety was devoured by dogs Such an one was Julian the Apostata who being struck with an unknown dart casted up his blood with his hand towards heaven crying aloud Thou hast overcome O Galilean thou hast overcome The Arminians and Socinians do agree together in many errors that a man may say of them as of old as of Plato and of Philo either Philo doth Platonise or Plato doth Philonise So either the Arminians do Socinianise or the Socinians do Arminianise in divers points as concerning Predestination original Sin the unperseverance of Saints touching the kingdom of Christ universal grace the Sacrament of Baptisme of the holy Supper of the Lord and divers other things among other points concerning the Son of God saving that the Son of God cannot rightfully truly be called Jehovah God of himself and by himself that the arguments taken from the works of the creation from the attributes of eternity frō the name of Jehovah c. are not sufficient to prove the Deity of the Son of God that Christ is named the Son of God in respect of his marvellous conception his anointing his resurrection ascention his sitting at the right hand of God is it not that which the Catechism of the Socinian Churches in Poland and in Lithuania doth teach affirming that there is but the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only true God that that man Jesus of Nazareth born of the Virgin is not God c. A book full full of blafhemies against the son of God a book that hath been reimprinted in England without the knowledge of the superior powers A book which deserues to be burnt and it is said it hath been the Printers and furtherers thereof worthy to be punished but O Lord how long we read a notable example in the Ecclesiasticall history Amphilochius an orthodox Bishop in Licaonia made a request unto the Emperour Theodosius to be pleased to make a decree for the banishment of the Arrians out of his Empire but the Emperours rejected it as an unjust and cruell request and which could not be executed without danger Now the Bishop thought on a way how the Emperour might be moved to consent to his request He came one day with other Bishops to the imperiall Court Theodor l. 5 c. 16. at the time that the Emperour Theodosius sat on his throne and Arcadius his son sitting on his side newly designed Emperour with him to congratulate them which the Bishops did and did congratulate both the Emperour and his son Arcadius but Amphilochius did bow to the Emperour Theodosius with all reverence and humility but he did it not to his son Arcadius the Emperour thought he did not do reverence to his son either because he saw him not or by forgetfulnesse shews him his son and adviseth him to salute and honour him but Amphilochius told him He that honours the Father honoureth the son the Emperour taking this act this fact to heart with a kind of indignation replyed unto him He that dishonoureth the Son dishonoureth the Father and commands those about him to cause him to avoid the Court. Amphilochius having that which he desired to attain unto his aim and end cryed out O Emperour doest thou take so to heart the contempt of thy sonne dost thou think that in dishonouring thy son I dishonour thee and dost thou not think that in dishonouring the son of God thou dost not dishonor God the Father remember that God hates those that dishonor his Son doth he not say f Josh 5.23 that all men should honor the Son even as they honor the Father he that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father which hath sent him The Emperor was so much moved with this answer admiring the wise boldnes of the old man that he descended his throne embraced the Bishop confessed he had told the truth asked of him pardon and made an Edict banishing the Arrians out of his Empire And certes Saint John saith g 1 John 2.23 Whosoever denyeth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also Whosoever therefore preacheth another Gospel another Jesus another Spirit is accursed and if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 O that these Blasphemers that sin against God the Father in sinning against God the Son either in regard of his person or of his divine or humane nature or of his offices were suppressed in England For how can we be said to honour God the Father if we permit that God the Son be dishonoured 2. The Ministers of the Gospel ought and are to preach the Gospel not onely in regard of the Doctrine but also in respect of a holy conversation of life edifying the Church of God as well with the one hand as with the other by the preaching of

wo he would and should rather have said in that sense wo is unto me that I preach the Gospel and happy should I be if I did not preach the Gospel for the apost●e because of the preaching of the Gospel was in temporall misery in afflictions in tribulations in persecution in prison wipped stoned and in extreme danger of death The prophet Jeremiah cryes out z Jer. 15 1● Wo is me my mother that thou hast born me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth and elsewhere he saith I a Jer. 20.7.8 am in derision daily every one mocketh me for since I spake I cryed out I cryed violence and spoil because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and a derision daily Even so the Apostle might very well say of himself wo unto me that I preach the Gospel for I am esteemed a man of strife for the Gospels sake * 1 Cor. 9.9 13. We are made a spectacle unto the world unto Angels and to men we are made as the filth of the world and are become the off-scouring of all things unto this day The Apostle therefore takes not this word wo in this sense but he means first and principally of internall and eternall wo everlasting damnation and death hangs over my head if I preach not the Gospel and this necessity is imposed on him if he will not incur eternall death therefore he addes in this ninth chapter of our Text Least by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast away And else where b 2 Cor. 13.6 I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates And therefore he exhorts his disciple Timothy c 1 Tim. 4 16. Take heed unto thy self and unto the doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee It is not to say that Pastors are the saviours of men but God doth use and imploy their ministry to save them they are like the finger of Saint John Baptist shewing them Christ and saying Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world Or like unto those that brought unto Jesus Christ the blind or lunatick or that had the palsie or possessed with Devils or such like that he might heal them Now the word of God threatens those shepherds that do not their duty nor execute their office c Ezech. 39 2. Wo be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves should not the sheperds feed their flocks in like manner the Prophet Jeremiah speaks in the name of the Lord e Jer. 23.1 Wo unto the Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my Pasture saith the Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ did pronounce the sentence of wo against the Scribes Pharisees and Doctors of the Law f Mat. 23.13 16. Wo unto Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdome of heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer them that are entring to go in c. Wo unto you blind guides It is not therefore without ground and reason that the Apostle saith here wo unto me if I preach not the Gospel of Christ Observe again that the Apostle saith here if I preach not the Gospel he sayes not if I preach not the traditions of the Pharisees the ceremonies of the Jews the injunctions of men or the Statutes of Princes but the Gospel which Jesus Christ hath preached and commanded and therefore not another Gospel it is not to say that there is another Gospel another Jesus another spirit 2 Cor. 11.4 for there is but one true Christ one true Gospel to speak properly but it is g Gal. 1.7 a perverting of the Gospel of Christ as we call the false Church a Church but abusively and clear from the right use and sense now as wo is unto him if he preacheth not the Gospel so wo is unto him if he preach another Gospel than the Gospel of Christ Therefore the Apostle protests h Acts 20.27 That he hath not shunned to declare all the Councel of God and that he had received of the Lord that which he had delivered unto them 1 Cor. 11.23 not mans tradition in lieu of Gods commandements as Christ reproaches the Pharisees but teaching and observing all that was commanded to the Apostles to keep and teach according to this commandement Saint Peter saith i 1 Pet. 9.1 If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God this was represented by Aaron who had round about the hem of his garment bells of gold and pomegranates between them Exod. 28.33 the sound of the bells signified the preaching and that divine and excellent harmony of the true and pure Doctrine of the word And certes Pastors are the Ambassadours of God Now as an Ambassadour of a King dares not advance any thing of his own nor exceed or go beyond his Commission but governs himself according to his commission and prescriptions that are given him in writing by him that sends him Even so the Ministers of the Gospel who are the Ambassadours of the great God do in like manner The voyce of God saith unto Isaiah the Prophet k Isa 90.6 Cry he dares not notwithstanding cry of his own head or put forth his own intention his own invention but he saith unto God What shall I cry then the voyce doth suggest unto him the matter and subject of the cry thence it came to passe that he was accustomed to close all his prophesies with this sentence as he saith in the precedent fifth verse of that chapter for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it l Isa 1.7.9 The Lord saith unto Jeremiah whatsoever I command thee that thou shalt speak and the Lord put forth his hand and touched his mouth and the Lord said unto him behold I put my word in thy mouth It is that which the Prophet Ezekiel represents unto us what God speaks unto him saying m Ezech. 3.1 2 3. Son of man eat this roll and speak to the house of Israel then I did eat it then he said go get thee unto the house of Israel and speak with my words unto them giving to understand thereby that his prophesies were a recitall of the words contained in the roll which was given him to eat according to which the Prophets ordinarily began their prophesie Thus saith the Lord and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it To give us to understand that the Prophets Apostles and Pastors ought not to teach or preach any thing but the word and will of God for if they prophesie teach or preach any thing but the word of God and the Gospel of Christ wo will befall them These things being thus briefly expounded it remains that we apply them unto our selves to our use and for our instruction From hence we have an use of redargution for this