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A47643	A practical commentary upon the first epistle general of St. Peter. Vol. II containing the third, fourth and fifth chapters / by the most Reverend Robert Leighton ... ; published after his death at the request of his friends.	Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684.; Fall, James, 1646 or 7-1711.	1694 (1694)	Wing L1029; ESTC R36245	321,962	503

to Christ that there be nothing save the matter of your rod keep the quarrel as clean and unmixt as you can and this will advantage you much both within and without in the peace and firmness of your minds and in the refute of your enemies This will make you as a brazen wall as the Lord speaks to the Prophet they shall fight against you but shall not prevail Keep far off from all impure unholy ways suffer not as evil doers no nor as busie bodies be much at home setting things at rights within your own breast where there is so much work and such daily need of diligence and then you will be vacant to unnecessary idle pryings into the wayes and affairs of others and further then your calling and the rules of Christian charity engage you you will not iuterpose in any matters without you nor be found proud and sensorious as they are ready to call you 2. Shun the appearances of evil walk warily and prudently in all things be not heady nor sel● will'd no not in the best thing walk not upon the utter brink and hedge of your liberty for then you shall readily overpass it things that are lawful may be inexpedient and in case our fear of scandal ought either to be wholly spared or used with much prudence and circumspection Oh! study in all to adorn the Gospel and in sense of your own unskillfullness and folly beg wisdom from above that annointing that will teach you all things much of that Holy Spirit that will lead you in the way of all truth and then in that way whatsoever be suffer it and however indignified and reproached happy are you for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you Inf. 2. But if to be thus reproached be happy then certainly their reproachers are no less unhappy if on those rest the spirit of glory and of God what Spirit in those but the Spirit of Satan and of shame and vileness Who is the basest most contemptible kind of person in the world truly I think an avowed contemner and mocker of holiness Shall any such be fou●d amongst us I charge all you in this name of Christ that you do not entertain godless prejudices against the people of God Let not your ears be open to nor your hearts close with the calumnies and lies that may be flying abroad of them and their practises much less open your mouths against them or let any disgraceful word be heard from you and when you meet with undeniable real frailties know the law of love and practise it Think this is blameworthy yet let me not turn it to the reproach of those persons who notwithstanding may be sincere much less to the reproach of other persons professing Religion and then cast it upon Religion it self My Brethren beware of sharing with the ungodly in this tongue persecution of Christians There is a Day at hand wherein the Lord will make enquiry after those things if we shall be made accountable for idle words as we are warned how much more for bitter malicious words uttered against any especially against the Saints of God whom however the World reckon he esteems his precious ones his treasure You that now can look on them with a scornful eye which way shall you look when they shall be beautitiful and glorious and all the ungodly cloathed with shame Oh! do not reproach them but rather come in and share with them in the way of holiness and in all the sufferings and reproaches that follow it for if you partake of their disgraces with them you shall share of glory with them in the Day of their Lords appearing The words have two things The evil of these reproaches suppos'd and the good exprest The evil suppos'd that they are trials and hot trials of this already The good exprest ye are happy even in present in the very midst of them they do not trouble your happy estate yea they advance it Thus solid indeed is the happiness of the Saints that in the lowest condition it remains the same disgraces caves prisons and chains cast them where you will still happy a Diamond in the mire foyled and trampled on yet still retains its own worth But this is more that the very things that seem to make them miserable do not only not do that but on the contrary do make them the more happy they are gainers by their losses and attain more liberty by their thraldomes and more honour by their disgraces and more peace by their troubles the World and all their enemies are exceedingly befool'd in striving with them not only can they not undo them but by all their enmity and practises they do them pleasure and raise them higher with what weapons shall they fight How shall they set upon a Christian that are his enemy where shall they hit them seeing all the wrongs they do him do indeed enrich and ennoble him and the more he is deprest he flourishes the more certainly the blessedness of a Christian is matchless and invincible But how holds this Happy in reproaches and by them 't is not through their nature and vertue for they are evil so Mat. 5. 20. But 1. By reason of the Cause 2. Of the accompanying and consequent Comfort First the Cause Negatively we have it verse 15. Positively ver 14 16. Not as an evil doer that stains thy holy profession and damps thy comfort and clouds thy happiness disprofits thee and dishonours thy Lord. But for the name of Christ and what is there so rough that that will not make pleasant to suffer with Christ and for Christ who suffered so much and so willingly for thee hath he not gone through all before thee and made all easie and lovely hath he not sweetned poverty and persecutions and hatred and disgraces and death it self per●um'd the grave and turn'd it from a pit of horrour into a sweet resting bed And thus love of Christ judgeth thinks all lovely that is for him is glad to meet with difficulties and ambitious of suffering for him scorn and contempt a thing of hard digestion but much inward heat of love digests it easily reproaches bitter but the reproaches of Christ sweet Take their true value Heb. 11. The reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt his very worst things better than the best of the World A touch of Christ turns all into gold his reproaches riches as there and honour as here Happy not only afterwards ye shall be happy but happy in present and that not only in apprehension of that after happiness as sure and as already present which Faith doth but even for that they possess the presence and comforts of the Spirit For the Spirit of Glory This accompanies disgraces for him his Spirit the Spirit of Glory and of God with your suffering goes the name of Christ and the Spirit of Christ take them thus when reproaches are cast upon you for his name and

stile who loved me and gave himself for me Of the glory to come as their Inheritance they are partakers of it their home as strangers meeting together abroad in some foreign Country delighting to speak of their own Land and their parentage friends and their rich patrimony there abiding them And this ought to be the entertainment of Christians when they meet Away with triffling vain discourses cause all to give place to these refreshing remembrances of our home Were our hearts much on that rich Inheritance above it would be impossible to refrain our tongues and to pass on so silent of it to find matter of empty pratings and be pleased with them and no relishing this whither go your hearts they are out of their way and abase themselves that turn so much downwards and are not more above the Sun eying still that blessed Land where our purchast Inheritance lies Inf. Oh! seek after more clear knowledge of this glory and of your interest in it that your hearts may rejoyce in the remembrance of it that it be not to you as the description of a pleasant Land such as Men read in History and have no portion in they like it well and are pleased with it while they read be it but some imagined Country or Commonwealth finely fancied But know it to be real no device and seek to know your selves partakers of it This confidence hangs not upon a singular revelation but on the power of faith and the light of the Spirit of God which clears to his Children the things that he hath freely given them though some of them at sometimes it may be all or most of their time do want it God so disposing it they scarce clearly see their right till they be in possession see not their Heaven and home till after they be at it or hard upon it yet truly this we may and ought to seek after in humility and submission that we may have the pledge and earnest of our Inheritance not so much for the comfort within us though that is allowed as that it may wean our hearts from things below may raise us to higher and closer Communion with God and enable us more for his service and excite us more to his praises even here What were a Christian without the hope of this glory as one said tolle Religionem nullus eris And having this hope what are all things here to him how poor and despiseable the better and worse of this life and this life it self how glad is he that it will quickly end and what were the length of it to him but by the long continuance of his banishment holden long from home and how sweet is the message that is sent for him to come home The glory to be revealed It is hid for present wholly unknown to the Children of this World and even but little known to the Children of God that are heirs of it yea they that know themselves partakers of it yet know not much what it is only this that it is above all they know or can imagine they may see things that make a great shew here they may hear of more than they see they may think or imagine more than either they hear or see or can conceive of still they must think of this glory as beyond it see I pompous shews or read I or hear of them yet this I say of them these are not as my Inheritance it is far beyond them yea does my mind imagine things far beyond them golden mountains and marble Palaces yet those fall short of my Inheritance for it is such as eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entred into the heart of Man to conceive Oh! the brightness of that glory when it shall be revealed How shall they be astonisht that shall see it and not partake of it how shall they be filled with everlasting joy that are heirs of it were the heart much upon the thoughts of that glory what thing is there in this perishing World that could either li●t it up or cast it down Verses 2 3. 2. Feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind 3. Neither as being Lords over Gods heritage but being ensamples to the flock EVery step of the way of our Salvation hath on it the print of infinite majesty wisdom and goodness and this amongst the rest that Men sinful weak Men are made subservient in that great work of bringing Christ and Souls to meet that by the foolishness of preaching so appearing to carnal wisdom the chosen of God are called and come in to Jesus and made wise unto Salvation and that life which is conveyed to them by the word of life in the hands of poor Men is by the same means preserv'd and advanc'd and this is the standing work of the ministry and this the thing here bound upon them that are imployed in it to feed the flock of God that is among them Jesus Christ he descended to purchase a Church he ascended to provide and furnish it to send down his Spirit he ascended and gave gifts particularly for the work of the ministry and the great use of them is this to feed the flock of God c. Not to say any more of this usual resemblance of a flock importing the weakness and tenderness of the Church the continual need of inspection and guidance and defence and the tender care of the chief Shepherd for these things it inforces the present duty of subordinate Pastors their care and diligence in feeding of that flock The due rule of discipline not excluded the main is by doctrine the wholsom and green pastures of saving Truths revealed in the Gospel accommodating of the way teaching to their condition and capacity and to be as much as may be particularly acquainted with it and suit diligently and prudently their doctrine to it to feed the Sheep those more advanced to feed the Lambs the younger and weaker to have special care of the infirm to learn of their Master the great Shepherd to bind up that which is broken and strengthen that which is fick those that are broken in Spiri● that are exercised with tentations and gently to lead those that are with young in whom the inward work of grace is as in the conception and they heavy and weak with the weight of it and the many difficulties and doubtings that are frequent companions and symptoms of that work Oh! what dexterity and skillfullness what diligence and above all what affection and bowels of compassion are needful for this task who is sufficient for these things who would not faint and give over in it were not our Lord the chief Shepherd all our sufficiency laid up in his rich fulness and all our insufficiency covered in his gracious acceptance Ins. This is the thing we have to eye and study to set him