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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96329	The danger of greatnesse: or Uzziah his exaltation and destruction: set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, and the reverend Assembly of Divines, in the church of Martins in the Fields, the 14th day of January, 1645. being a speciall day of humiliation set apart to seek God, for his direction in the setling of the great worke of church-government. / By Jeremiah Whitaker, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1711; Thomason E316_1; ESTC R200519	42,588	49

peculiarities are which Jesus Christ hath committed unto them in the times of the Gospel which God would have kept distinct Whether is it the minde of Jesus Christ in the times of the Gospel 1 Quaere that Ministers should intermeddle with civil affairs belonging to the Magistrate as the Levites and Priests were appointed of old to be judges and to determine of controversi● Are not the Ministers now bound more then the Levites then were to give attendance to reading 1 Tim. 4.13 to the studying of the Scriptures as well as to preach● and to give themselves to exhortation and doctrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophylactus Timothy 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his ●●●o If Timothy so charged why not others whose gifts are weaker Are they not commanded to give themselves wholly to these things meditation them be wholly in them and to this end not to entangle themselves with things of another warfare Whether though Ministers may not meddle with those things that are civil yet may not the Magistrate specially if Christian meddle with every thing that is Ecclesiasticall If God would have the Magistracy and Ministry quâ tales to be distinct 1 Tim 4.5 2 Quaere 3 Quaere Jo● 25.10 1● then what are those limits and bounds that God hath set both to the one and to the other Hath God done to them as he hath to the sea set bounds and doors and said Hitherty shalt thou come but no further 1. Are all particulars herein jure divine Is this a truth cleerly expressed in the word or strongly deducible from it 2. Or is nothing at all jure divine 3. Or if both the former be equally groundlesse and the truth lies between these two extreams and that something be determined cleerly to be jure divine and some other things only fall under generall comprehensive rules which may admit of a variety and a latitude in practice without any manifest transgression so the generall scope of these rules be observed Then we would know what are those speciall both of the first kinde and of the later that we may neither assume a liberty wherein God hath made a restriction nor groundlesly binde up our selves with restrictions where the Lord hath left a latitude to Christian prudence and pious moderation These and the like questions Sol. are fitter for a thorow debate elsewhere then for a Pulpit and in debate no question is more tender then that of power and about power what more intricate then positively to determine and set exact simits for power thus far you may and in case you must or else sin and yet no further Disputes usually herein have more heat then light and I am not here this day to adde fewell to the flame but powre out water and if it were possible tears of blood tears of blood to quench that burning which our sins have kindled We are all met here this day together not to hear a private mans determination but to seek direction from the publike Spirit of the only wise God the good Lord helpe us all to do it in all sincerity that there may be no Idol in your hearts Ezck. 14.4 lest the Lord answer us according to the 〈…〉 of our Idols● but that we may all lay down all preingagements at the foot of the throne of Jesus Christ that we may all cry with one heart and one mouth Lord Psal 43.3 send out thy light and thy truth let them guide us Make thy servants to know the way wherein thou wouldest have them to walke and as the Church in former times O thou that dwellest between the Cherubims shine forth before Ephraim Beujamin and Manasseh So wein our generation may cry O thou that hearest prayers shine forth before the Lords Commons and Assembly before England Scotland and Ireland stir up thy strength and come and save us But is there no direction to be given Quest. that at least in some degree may be usefull In answer whereunto Sol. I intreat you give me leave to lay down at your feet a three-fold consideration 1. Consider the difficulty in determining the wisest of men 1 Consideration when left to themselves how subject are they to miscarry when we seriously take into our thoughts the greatnesse of the danger that may ensue upon mistakes it may make every mans heart to quake and tremble and rottennesse to enter into our boues 1. If the Lord helpe not marvellously mistakes are easie 3. If you sin herein you sin not alone it is not the sin of so many private men Noble Senatours you are the pillars of the land the stay of the Tribes thereof if the supports fall what can become of the rest of the fabrick When Rehoboam forsook the Lord 2 Chro. 12. all Israel followed after him therefore the Lord speaks to you as Joshua to the men of Gad Reuben and half Tribe of Manasseh Did not Achan commit a trespasse Iosh 22.20 and wrath fell on the whole Congregation of Israel and that man alone perished not in his iniquity 3. This sin is likely to live when ye are dead and of all sins every servant of God had need take heed of those sins most which may diffuse themselves not only to the men of the present age but to after-generations which may both go before Basil Magn. apud Theophylactum in ●oc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Magn. apud Theophy in loc and follow us to judgement which some do not only restrain to the case of Ordination but extend to other sins that are exemplary Some sins are only private and personall when the sinner dies they die with him but when men erre themselves and lead others into errour these errours and mistakes follow the sinner unto judgement and they shall give an account and suffer not only because they themselves were seduced but because they were authours of seducements unto others 2. Consider not only difficulty in determining but the danger in delaying 1. Delayes do not lessen difficulties there will ever be some impediments and that which hinders will hinder till taken away 2. Breaches and differences grow wider all the soundations seem to go out of order when a bone is gone out of joynt is it not wisedom rather to suffer the pain in setting 2 Consideration then to suffer it to abide so long in the dislocation till at last it fistula or gangrene and then after far greater pain no hope of cure but by resection 3. Spirits of men grow higher 4. Expectations of the most in waiting grow weary 5. Religion it self through needlesse disputes is greatly endangered to run out wholly into opinion as seed in a wet season runs up into bulke the straw is long and ear short and when the crop for the burden of it is very great yet the return for profit and use very little Some compare it to the disease called the Rickets in tender children who in the face