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A14282	Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1594 (1594)	STC 24599; ESTC S119031	61,414	222

be done with the Toad the Ant the Adder and such small things all the creatures of God are good Gen. 1 31. as he himselfe veresieth and as the proofe thereof plainely sheweth They are to be vsed in their season and to be taken in their kinde so shall we haue vse and comfort by them Luke the Euangelist was a Phisition in Antioch whom Christ would not haue accounted much lesse appointed for an Apostle if his profession had not beene lawfull and necessarie And why shal I stand colouring of pure Corrall or preseruing of pure Ciuet that will neuer leese his sauour as the one will not receiue to it and the other will not leese from it euen so Phisicke is so exquisitely excellent that it need not haue any counterfait helpe and the other haue their commission so lawfull that they cannot be condemned nor iustly disdained Nature and Necessitie are two handmaids that attend vpon Phisitions the one enforced to seeke their helpe the other inforced to yeeld thē their guerdon reward As it is to be proued by Gods word damnable sin for a man to kill himselfe with fire water sword or with such like so is it sinne for a man to destroy himselfe in not seeking after Phisitions and Chirurgions when time and opportunitie is offred for recouery As men may be too carefull in seeking after Phisitions to remoue the diseases of their bodies so may they be too too carelesse in seeking after Christ to remoue the sinnes of their soules Whence comes all maner of infirmities and diseases of the bodie comes it not from the sinnes of the soule All the inconueniences dangers Pro. 18 7. Iere. 26 19. Eze. 18 4. Mat. 17 26. miseries troubles and wretchednesse whatsoeuer vpon the body comes as a punishment for the sinne of the soule Thence comes the originall thence comes the cause A good Phisition or Surgion will first remoue the cause ere he begin to heale euen so he that enterpriseth his health must first of all goe vnto Iesus Christ the Phisition of the soule that the cause may be remoued then Phisicke hath vertue and power to heale and not before All power of healing and doing good proceeds from him As the vertue attractiue to draw Elisha from his worke was not in Elias cloake 1. King 19 19.20 but in the power of the word euen so the vertue of healing is not in the Phisitions nor any thing they take in hand but in the Lord of life From the most high commeth healing Eccles. 38 2.3.4 the Lord hath created medicins God hath giuen men knowledge that he might be glorified in his wonderfull workes Men may not seeke to Phisitions nor blame them if they be not healed when they must seeke to God neither may they seeke to God when they should seeke to Phisitions The best Phisition cānot heale where God sets not to his hand Luke 8 43. therefore blame them not As for their liues and conuersations to speake truely and in the feare of God indifferently I take them for the most part to be men most ciuill in their behauiour chast in their bodies moderate in their diet and most religious in the seruice of almightie God And so I end for the Phisition desiring God to increase his graces in them and to blesse their labours in others Their cause is good Vi●um hoc gestit veritas ne ignoranta damnetur Men doe hurt and endamage themselues by committing their bodies into the hands of such as are not warranted by the degrees of learning to be Phisitions indeed If you adhibit any credit to my councell be sure to know the knowledge and the conscience of the Phisition before you commit your life into his hands euerie one cannot heale a sore that can make a salue so euerie one is not a Phisition that makes the profession Parishioner You haue said well for the Lawyer the Phisition now I pray you what is your iudgement concerning preachers and ministers for all the world saith they feed themselues with the sweat of other mens browes Whilst they are busied with the cares of their wiues and their children they starue the soules of Gods people and their ill life marres all Pastor YOu blame the ministers for neglecting their charge and for their ill life and conuersation you make no exception you conclude all and euerie one within the compasse of your condemnation as the Pope doth comprehend all England within the compasse of his curse The Elder that is fullest of pith is smallest of strength the emptie Caske will giue a great sound and the bird Taurus hath a great voice but a little body euen so you and such like haue great will you haue many great words but God be thanked no power to hurt And againe that which you allow is ill that which you mislike is good because you haue no knowledge to iudge according to truth you haue no conscience to iudge according to charitie and you haue no place of office publickly to iudge according to iustice Your accusing of others is but the excusing of your selfe your medling with the ministers shewes that you cannot away to be reproued you hate to be reformed as the holy Ghost witnesseth saying Ioh. 12 35. 1. Cor. 3 1.2 2. Thess 3. 2. Pet. 2 1. Iohn 2 1. He that walketh in darkenesse hateth the light meaning that such as liue lewdly lasciuiously doe hate them that liue godly and honestly A matter very strāge to be shewed and hard to be beleeued that vice should hate vertue or that the sheepe shuld controle the shepheard therfore Christ foreseeing it answereth by way of interrogation 2. Cor. 6 14.15.16 What fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse what communion hath light with darkenesse and what concord hath Christ with Beliall wherein his diuine maiestie doth shew the ods the difference the contrarietie the debate and the inequality that is between the right and the vnright betweene the ignorant and the learned between Atheists Epicures such like the true followers of Christ The vnrighteous the open the obstinate sinner cannot away with the godly and sinceere man the ignorant can not away with the learned the base-borne cannot like with the noble and it is too true that the carelesse and vnconscionable liuers will shun and auoid the company of the members of Christ You and the rest of your fellow bretheren and partners haue no other quarrell to the ministers of God but that they also doe disdaine shun and auoid your companies there is such inequalitie betwixt you and them that they admit not of your fauour neither doe they at any time feare you Therefore I need not studie to answere your friuolous questions particularly but rather in few words to reproue and with plain tearms to reprehend your baiardly boldnesse in medling with such as are so farre aboue your selfe as you are herein beyond the measure of modesty and christian duety Euery

their wealth to suppresse the truth and by long delaies so to impouerish their aduersary as they should neuer be able to bring the cause to hearing haue in the bitternesse of their heart and in the heat of their furie vttered these words I will not leaue him worth a great I will make him daunce the beggers galliard before I haue done with him with such other cruell and vnchristian speeches And these and such like minded men for the better effecting of this their wicked intention labor and endeuour to seeke vnto themselues such lawyers as will sit their humors wherevpon if God for the hardening of their hearts doe send them vnto to such a one then they haue their desire if otherwise they light vpon such a lawyer that will not fauour nor further that their extreame bitternesse and cruelty then they themselues partly by wrong informations giuen to their lawyer and partly by other subtill and secret practises find out the means to delay lengthen their suits and to hold detaine and keepe both themselues and their aduersaries in long and tedious actions to the poore mens great decay and impouerishment if not to their vtter vndoing By means whereof the law is euill spoken of and the lawyers are slaundered whereas indeed the law it selfe is good and holy and may be well vsed and so is by a great many of the professours thereof and when it is otherwise administred the fault is not in the law but in the practisers thereof that are defectiue either in learning or conscience but most commonly in the clients themselues Parishioner As you thought me to speake ill of Lawyers vpon spleene onely by reason of some grieuance receiued by or from some of them so I thinke that you speake well of Lawyers by reason of some fauour or good done vnto you by some Lawyer as partly it appears by the dedication of your booke There were many better men and greater in account more likely to gratifie you than a Lawyer Pastor Esa 15 20.21 As he that iustifieth the wicked is subiect to woe so he that condemneth the godly is subiect to woe as it is a sinne to arrogate for him that deserueth ill so it is a sinne to derogate from him that deserueth well you can not denie but all that I haue said concerning the law and the professours generally is true And whereas you seeme to charge me with some benefit past which makes me partiall I confesse that euen he was the pleader and that by his learning and paines yea without fee he deliuered me from a greedy Informer who through his subtiltie and my simplicitie had condemned me in a hundred marks more than I was worth to which worshipful Lawyer I dedicate this my labour thinking it a sufficient gratification in that it pleaseth him to patronize the same and me also who as a poore Doue among Kites Crowes am throwne into the world into many dangers and hard aduentures whose loue and faithfull friendship towards me I assure my selfe is sealed and deliuered whose readinesse likewise to helpe all such as are helplesse if it be desired and whose vprightnesse in his profession towards all hath many yeares appeared And shall I suffer this man to be obscure no no I will not no he is not no if I you and 1000 more with vs both tooke in hand to dimme that he hath done the saincts in earth would praise him and the angels in heauen would pray for him that God might regard and reward him Carpturum alios immaculatum esse oportet Parishioner For my question I rest satisfied Now therefore I pray you what is your opinion and iudgement of Phisitions they robbe men of their liuings and spoile men of their liues vnder the pretence of doing good they heale few and kil many Pastor PHisicke is a preseruer of health Hipocrates De arte and the repulser of sicknesses Phisicke is a putting too and a taking from that is to say It doth adde encrease strengthen and augment good blood where it is decaied by age by imperfection of nature by surfait or by any other means howsoeuer and it doth take away cut off kill destroy purge or by some such way it doth discharge the body of that which is ouer aboue nature as of chollor rheume corrupt blood impostumes c. The body of man is subiect to infinite diseases and therefore through the corruption therof it is likened by the holy Ghost Esa 6 4. to a filthie clout or the cloath of a menstruous woman Exo 9.9.17 2. King 1 2. 2. Cron. 11 14. It is subiect to the leprosie to the pluresie to the dropsie to the frensie to the palsie to the botch to the canker and to other infinit diseases which will soone infect ouerrunne and destroy the body if it be not aided maintained supported and defended by Phisicke whence our sauiour Christ said The whole haue no need of the Phisition as well to confound the opinion of those that trusted in their owne righteousnes as also to shew that it was a matter necessarie requisite Mat. 9 22. that he which was sicke should seeke to the Phisition Answerable to this Eccle. 38 1. c. Iesus the grandfather and Iesus the nephew gaue in commaundement highly to esteeme and reuerently to account of the Phisition with this great word Honor which indeed is a word of great dignitie and commonly yeelded to Lords of nobilitie Honor saith he the Phisition with that honor which is due vnto him which is as much to say He deserueth to be honored it doth pertaine vnto him it is his right and his duetie to be had in aestimation and to be reuerenced not because it doth any way good vnto him not that he hath any vse of thy honour reuerence or seruice but in respect of thy owne necessitie for thine owne need thou shalt haue continuall occasion to vse him Honor therefore the Phisition because of necessitie And for another reason he is to be honored because the Lord hath created him the Lord hath ordained and constituted him forthy sake and for thy good as thou wilt not be found to neglect the good gifts the good ordinances of almightie God Honor the Phisition A third reason enforceth this honor to weet his studie his calling and his profession which commeth of God his maiestie hath created it he it is that hath instituted and ordained it If Phisicke be not the ordinance of Almightie God I would faine know what vse haue we of diuerse roots hearbs flowers trees plants licours and many other things in beasts in foules in fish and creeping creatures whose effects are verie strange and wonderfull all working the health and preseruation of mans bodie or were they created in vaine we haue in our knowledge no other vse of the Rose than the sight the sappe and the sauour yet it hath many other excellent vses and effects simple or compounded What shal

base and beggerly fellow euerie lewd and wanton mistres euerie prophane and rusfianly gētleman euerie swearing swash-buckler and many such as make shew of honesty and conscience of religion in their feasting in their gaming in their riding in their going yea in all their affaires they will be medling and sensuring of ministers Some will blame them because of their conuersation some will despise them because of their wiues some will slander thē because of their apparel some wil disdaine them because they be poore some will scorne them because they be ritch and some will condemne them because they be couetous some cannot like them because they preach often some will discōmend them because they preach seldome and some will not fauor them because they preach too plaine and easie and some will not loue them if they preach too prosound and deepe some will not loue them if they pray for Bishops some will not loue them if they pray not for Bishops some cannot away with Latine Greeke and Hebrue some cannot away without it and some can not away with neither Alas poore silly souls of all sortes the greatest some mislikes you scornes you disdains you hates you and condemnes you O how few are there that likes you and loues you But be of good cheere saith Christ I haue ouercommed the world Ioh. 15 20. The seruant is not greater than his master if they persecuted me they will also persecute you all these things will they doe vnto you for my names sake 1. Cor 15 14. to 21. Blessed are yee c. reioice and be glad for great is your reward in heauen If our reward were not with God then were we of all men most miserable Parishioner You are beholding to your selfe and the rest of your bretheren haue cause to praise you and to pray for you You haue condemned me as a man of no knowledge of no conscience and of no charitie and you haue made others my partners and assotiats that said nothing at all to you to iustifie your selfe and all sorts of ministers good and bad and yet neuerthelesse you assure your selues of Gods blessing in earth and of aeternall fauour in heauen Pastor Good Sir I haue said nothing of my selfe nor for my bretheren but that the Lord hath said and warranted out of his holy word He it is that condemnes all such as you are for medling with other mens matters 1. Thess 3.11 the holy Ghost councelleth you to be quiet to meddle with your owne businesse and to worke with your owne hands Vziah was strucken dead when he did but set his hand to stay the Lords Arke from falling 2. Sam. 6 6.7.8 and shal you remaine aliue yea and vnhurt that put your hands not to helpe but to hinder the Lords proceedings Mat. 18 1.2.3 Christ did promise a woe and a heauie iudgement against him that offendeth a little one in the church or in the society of the faithfull and shall you escape this woe and heauie iudgement that maliciously wilfully and tirannously doe intreat and handle such as are great such as are the ministers the disposers of Gods secreats and his heauenly Embassadours no no. I speake not in the commendation of any such as deserue condemnation much lesse did I warrant their iustification or blessing from the Lord. If their conuersation be euill and their doctrine good take the one leaue the other their doctrine doth belong vnto you their life conuersation to themselues You shall answer for their doctrine not for their doing The Scribes and Pharisies were counted hipocrites painted Sepulchers and deuourers Ma. 23 1.2 yet Christ willed the people to heare them so long as they sate in Moses chaire meaning so long as they preached truely and taught the lawe of Moses And I pray you is the gospell of Iesus Christ more defiled and of lesse force by the ill demeanors of the ministers than the law was through the vilenesse and abhominations of the Pharisies no no so great a maiestie and so great might the preaching of Gods word hath as it cannot be diminished by the vilenesse of the vilest nor augmēted by the vertue of the most holiest and therefore it is a question generally cōcluded That a vicious minister preaching the Gospell truely and continually doth more good and lesse harme in the church of God than an honest minister and good house-keeper that cannot or will not feed the soules of his people with the continuall preaching of the word As a seale of copper or of wood if it be well graued doth make as good an impression in wax as a seale of siluer or of gold so the holy word of God being well deuided and deliuered by an vngodly man doth make as good an impression in the souls of the saints as if it were deuided and deliuered by a most honest and an vpright man God forbid yea let it be farre from any man to thinke much lesse to teach that the vilenesse of the minister should derogate any working or withhold any force or effect from so great a maiestie as the word of Reconciliation for then Lord what good shall it doe all men are sinners we haue all sinned we haue done amisse and delt wickedly We can not exclude the ministers out of this number S. Paule speaking of the Sacrament of Christs death 1. Cor. 11 29. saith Whosoeuer eateth and drinketh thereof vnworthilie eateth and drinketh his owne damnation Is he accounted an vnworthie receiuer in respect of the minister or in respect of himselfe if it be in respect of the minister because he is vile c. then must you make God contrary to himselfe who saith Deut. 24 18. 2. King 14 6. 2. Chro. 2.25 4. The soule that sinneth shall die and shall nor beare the iniquitie of another and then you must also grant that faith in the receauer hath no effect which is contrarie to S. Paule 1. Cor. 13.5 who willeth all men to search and to proue themselues for the same thereby to make them worthie If the receiuer be counted vnworthie in respect of himselfe then it followeth that the receiuer either good or euill doth not helpe nor hurt in the administration of the sacrament As the vertue attractiue to draw iron is not in the iron but in the A damant euen so the vertue and power of saluation lieth not in the minister but in the power of the word wrought by the spirit As the raine and the snow commeth downe from heauen and returneth not thither againe but watereth the earth and makes it fruictfull euen so saith the Lord my word shall not returne vnto me void Esa 55.10.11 but it shall accomplish that which I will and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it Thus much briefly concerning the truth and dignitie of the word preached Wherein I haue said nothing to excuse much lesse to iustifie the vnlawfull and dissolute liues of some