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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10926	A strange vineyard in Palæstina in an exposition of Isaiahs parabolical song of the beloued, discouered: to which Gods vineyard in this our land is paralleld. By Nehemiah Rogers, Master in Arts, and pastor of the congregation at Messing in Essex.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1623 (1623)	STC 21199; ESTC S122274	258,015	353

many in this world marry some only for beauties sake many againe for riches sake other some for Nobilitie and Gentry sake and not a few for wisdomes sake but where all these meet it is iudged a match vnmatchable Why see all these are abundantly in him and therefore seeke no further for thou wilt assuredly speed worse Standst thou vpon dowry Alas Thou hast little cause for what bringest thou but sinne and beggery And yet he will enstate thee into a kingdome of incomprehensible glory Ahashuerosh promises Esther halfe his kingdome but Christs performances outstrip his promises hee giues his a whole one With ioy and gladnesse shall they be brought they shall enter into the Kings Palace saith the Psalmist speaking of the Church Christs spouse He hath a glorious house a Citie of gold to entertaine thee the foundations of whose wall are garnished with pretious stones S. Iohn in his Reuelation sets downe a full description of it who so will let him reade it and regard it though it passeth the measures of Geometrie to measure it the skill of Logicke to define it and the eloquence of Rhetoricke to expresse it But thus conceiue If the house of this world be so excellent as that it deserues to be so esteemed by vs wherein God lets his enemies dwell and if the lowest pauement of that heauenly mansion be so gloriously bespangled with the Sunne Moone and twinckling Starres as we see it is what then is the Mansion it selfe how glorious must the sides and ●eeling of that eternall Tabernacle be which God hath sequestred for himselfe and Spouse These things being well considered I hope thou wilt forbeare to set thy loue vpon any other Suiter and now at length suffer thy selfe to be wrought vpon by our Ministerie not to gainesay that we with all speed and haste as Abrahams seruant did may returne againe to him that sent vs. And thus much for the Appellation which I could not passe ouer without some vsefull obseruation His warrant is next to be considered which he brings for the publishing of this his Song and is implied in these words Of my beloued i. The song which his beloued put into his mouth and which he had in charge from him to publish for albeit Isay was the Author instrumentall and Pen-man of it yet God was the Author principall We see then he set it forth Cum gratia priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis And hence let Ministers learne To deliuer nothing for Doctrine but what they are able to shew warrant and commission for the deliuery of Good warrant we must haue for what wee teach our people whether it tend to the enforming of their iudgements or rectifying of their affections and be able to shew that we deliuer nothing but what we haue receiued in charge from God to deliuer It was the vsuall manner of the Prophets preaching vnto the people to prefixe before their message these and such like prefaces Thus saith the Lord Heare the Word of the Lord The Word of the Lord which came c. Whereby they shewed they had authority from God And thus doth Saint Paul ground his Doctrine as vpon a sure and certaine foundation I haue receiued of the Lord saith he that which I also haue deliuered vnto you And againe elsewhere thus First of all I deliuered vnto you that which I receiued c. This the Lord himselfe enioynes his seruants Thou shalt goe to all that I will send thee and whatsoeuer I command thee thou shalt speake said the Lord to Ieremiah And to Ezechiel was this charge giuen Thou shalt heare the Word at my mouth and giue them warning from mee So likewise when our Sauiour sent out his Apostles into the world to teach all Nations he willeth that they should teach them to obserue all things whatsoeuer saith hee I haue commanded you Yea our blessed Sauiour himselfe professeth My Doctrine is not mine but his that sent me And againe The things that I haue heard of him those speake I to the world And the reason of this is good viz. that the faith of our hearers should not bee in the wisdome of men but in the power of God which reason the Apostle himselfe renders why he came not with excellency of speech nor entising words of mans wisdome but in demonstration of spirit and power The vse is two-fold First it concernes vs Ministers that we be carefull of our Doctrine and see that it be warrantable sound and good not ours but Gods The Lawyer saith one beginnes with Reason and so descends to common Experience and Authority The Physitian he beginnes with Experience and so comes to Reason and Authority But wee Diuines must beginne with Authority and so proceede to Reason and Experience We are Christs Embassadors and in his stead saith the Apostle Now wee know an Embassador is to speake nothing but what is giuen him in Commission He may not adde nor alter chop and change inuent or deuise any thing of his owne No way is hee to depart from what is giuen in charge but he must be found faithfull in the execution of his office and so see we be Beware wee oh beware wee of propounding any such Doctrine as tendeth either to the infecting of the iudgement with error or tainting the life with vncleannesse Take heed how wee dare to broach any new conceit or vnnecessary quiddite fitter to breed iangling than godly edifying still remembring that it is the conuiction of the conscience the information of the vnderstanding the resolution of the iudgement the gaining of the affections the redresse of the life that should be our aime in dispensing of the Word Now as for trickes and crankles Grammaticall and Rhetoricall descant ends of gold and siluer what helpe they to this businesse Aarons bels must bee golden bels not brasse nor copper nor any such like metall but pure gold Doctrines proceeding from our owne braine coyned on the Anuill of our owne inuentions are not Cum gratia priuilegio Gods pure truth must be dispensed and all the truth and nothing but the truth So helpe vs God Secondly this neerely concernes all Hearers that they receiue nothing into their heads and hearts but what they find Seene and allowed and published by Authority To the Law and to the Testimony said the Oracle of God of old If they speake not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them This is the touch by which all Doctrine must be tried If we haue authority of Scripture for our propounded points it being rightly vnderstood then we haue authority from God himselfe for the deliuery of it else not Too to blame then are our ouer-credulous multitude who hand ouer head admit and receiue for Orthodoxe whatsoeuer is propounded vnto them by their teachers and thinke this is a sufficient warrant for any point they hold Our Minister said it