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A17335	The moderate Christian a sermon preached in Exeter at a trienniall visitation of the Reverend Father in God, Ioseph Lord Bishop of that see. March 24. 1630. By Iohn Bury, sometime Fellow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Bury, John, 1580-1667.	1631 (1631)	STC 4180; ESTC S107147	15,741	34

〈◊〉 in whose coat Momus may find no hole but what his malice shall make that we may shine in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation as lights in the world Such lights to our people as the Starre to the wisemen h Math. 2.9 going before them till we bring them home to Christ that calling them after us as Phil. 4.9 doe the things which ye have heard and seene in me to all our Christian exhortations our good example may come in with Amen Even as I. But you Beloved Brethren of the Laity that use to see the light and not heare the voice here is no lesson for you either to neglect your Ministers good doctrine when his life is bad or to follow his bad life when his doctrine is good If his life confute his doctrine you may not stand of with Barak i Iudg. 4.8 If thou wilt goe with me I will go else not Noahs Carpenters may build a good Arke to save others though themselues be drowned for not entring A sicke Physitian may make thee whole and the Feriman may row thee right though his face turne the contrary way If for heeding your Ministers evill life yee should not heed his good Doctrine take heede you be not Donatus his Disciples rather then Christ's who tutored the auditors even of Scribes and Pharises k Math 23.1 to doe as they say though they say and doe not If on the other side his doctrine condemne his life he teacheth you better then to do even as I. Examples doe well to second rules not to make them yea rather an example without especially against a rule is an unruly example Lot in his drunkennesse David in his adultery and Peter in his denyall give us example not to trust examples even of the best He that will draw after every light may hap to be misled by some ignis fatuus or deluded by rotten though shining wood It is the royall prerogative of the Lord Paramount to take from none but give to all both rule and example l 1. Pet. 1.16 Be ye holy the rule his owne As I am holy himselfe the example His only sonne onely shares with him in this royalty m Ioh. 13.15 I have given you an example and that example may stand for a rule that yee should doe as I have done to you but all subordinate examples like generasubalterna take from their superior as they send downe to the inferior nor may you safely write after their Copie where they recede from the originall Archetype but must alwayes understand what we find here exprest the patterne for imitation even as I to draw after it a faithfull limitation Be yee followers of me as I am of Christ in the very next verse n Ro. 15.3 for Christ pleased not himselfe I doe please even as Christ do you even as I please and that is the Quid The second quaere what is the example I please That bedroll of persecutions which he reckoneth up to these Corinthians 2. Ep. 11. will teach us to understand it conatu non eventu I affect it though I cannot alwayes effect it Some are ignorant and cannot some froward and will not some envious that cannot will not be pleased but I endeauour to please all that I can though I cannot all that I would But what is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now clapt on as a crowne on his head which else-where hee shaketh off as the viper from his hand o Gal. 1.10 Doe I seeke to please men If I should please men I should not be the servant of Christ Distinguish then There is a pleasing carnally and a pleasing Christianly the first he there detesteth as damnable the second he here professeth as laudable and imitable Carnall pleasing is propterse determineth in our selves and our owne ends Christian pleasing is propter Deum looketh over and beyond our selves to the salvation of men and glory of God Not seeking mine owne profit but the profit of many that they may be saved How then did he please and not please men not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 making merchandize of the Word either for favour profit or credit the three golden Balls that men pleasers usually run after Heare his owne protestation 1. Thess 2.5 Not with flattering words to curry favour nor a cloake of covetousnes for turpe lucrum nor of men sought we glory digito notari dicier hic est Thus he did not please men How then did he please v. 7. Wee were gentle among you even as a Nurse cherisheth her children yea more then a Nurse a servant 1. Cor. 9.19 I have made my selfe Servant unto all that I might gaine the more not more money to my purse but more soules to God Thus to please men for Gods sake is not to please Men but God yea Nonianhomosed Deus placet it is not the Apostle but God by the Apostle that doth please and gaine Pleasing hee was both in his Doctrine and Conversation first in teaching hee pleased not so much in the matter seeking placentia that is p Ier. 6.14 a badge of salse Prophets as for the manner speaking truth placenter faithfully yet wisely to become with men he could handsomely close q Act. 26.27 with Agrippa that he might get within him but would never have humored his Vncle Herod with his Herodias nor sow pillowes under any sinners armehole no pleasing in dispendium veritatis all his pleasing was in Compendium Charitatis How easily may we trace in his Epistles that artificiall piece of Oratory to make and keepe Benevolos auditores to hold their eares while he teacheth and their hearts while he turneth them But there are Impenitent sinners those hee must needs displease yet even in displeasing he will please what he may Must hee needes launce the impostume of sinne yet even in that he will please as the Chirurgion in Seneca did by the Kings daughcer who gently fomenting her sore breast with his launcet hid under the spunge opened it ere she was aware Si scîsset ferrum praesens repugnâsset The Patient would have beene impatient except with the Lions heart of resolution there were ioyned the Ladies hand of tender Compassion The earthly-minded Belly-God shall be told his owne roundly that r Phil. 3.19 their end is damnation and yet even there he will please the teares of his eyes shall testifie the bleeding of his heart ſ ver 18. I tell you weeping Gutta cavat lapidem such drops might pierce even a stony heart Thus our Apostle And now deare brethren iudge whether it be Apostolicall to gall our hearers with tart invectives to exasperate them with conceited nickes and to please our selues in displeasing them Did you ever know any soule converted any man cured with such gall and vineger wee shall as soone catch fish with a naked hooke I may not presume I know my unworthines to teach teachers especially such as many of you It

is our Apostle to whom now we all goe to schoole and he teacheth us to please that wee may profit 2. Tim. 2.25 26. to instruct with meeknesse c. as the way to recover soules Reprehensions like Pils are naturally distastfull wee had need administer them with the sirrupe of good affection Yee know the good Mother Truth hath a bad daughter dogging her Gal. 4.16 veritas odium our Apostle either was or feared to be haunted with her I am become your enemy because I tell you the truth now must our skill be to get in the Mother and keepe out the daughter and how may that be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 4.15 let naked veritie goe no longer naked but be clothed with the robes of her sister Charitie Speake the truth in Love and then it may be Hatred that knoweth her Mother but naked may passe by and not owne her in that attire Suppresse wee Anger eagernesse indignation and such other passions as may arise from displeasure in the speaker and are apt to breed displeasure in the hearer and expresse a loving feare a wel-wishing tendernesse pitty and such other affections as are both the Daughters and Mothers of Love And to follow our Apostle in this holy art of pleasing let the soules wee labour to save see in our face theare in our tongue and fecle in our heart that we grieve for their sinne and feare for their danger and pitty them for both and speaking out of these bowels of love and compassion I hope these precious balmes shall not breake their head but may in time by Gods grace supple and mollifie their heart Againe he pleased in his conversation carrying himselfe not onely with plausible affabilitie and a gentle placiditie but also by a pliable humilitie condescending to all that he might give offence to none Omnis alteritas discors saith Boetius a sullen differing occasioneth difference while likenesse breedeth liking Heerein therefore hee complied with all sorts that indifferent things might make no difference he would conforme and subscribe so farre as omnialicent would reach A skilfull fisher of men that could fit his severall baites according to the severall seasons and divers kinds of fish one time he circumciseth Timothy to please the Iewes another time hee refuseth to circumcise Titus to please the Gentiles See how hee did turne and winde to give content on all hands Cap. preced 20. To the Iew I became a Iew that I might gaine the Iewes to them that are under the Law as under the Law that I might gaine them that are under the Law to them that are without Law as without Law c. I became all things to all men that by all meanes I might save some What now Paul become a politique Proteus a time serving Dissembler No that good Father will come into be his Compurgator Non simulantis astu sed compatientis affectu All this his turning was but to turne them unto God being covetous of nothing but men and fishing for nothing but soules being loath to loose so precious a substance by standing on a circumstance or to hazard a soule by nice sticking at a Ceremony Who will not rather commend then blame the tender Nurse k 1. Thess 2.7 to whom hee compared himselfe for playing the childe that shee may still the childe or who ever counted it a Diminution to Elishaes greatnesse that he contracted and drew in himselfe 2. Kings 4.34 that so he might apply his face to the childes face his hands to the childs hands c. thereby to recover the dead childe to life In the like posture is our blessed Paul bowing himselfe to please that he might save and in this posture calleth upon us to follow him and with him to follow the things that make for peace and things whereby one may edifie another Rom. 14.19 What peace and edification both to bee followed and both at once Not two but one or two in one the things that make for peace make also for edification no peace no edification Salomon the King of peace is the only man to build Gods house Division is fit to build nothing but Babel confusion The Trowell is for building not the sword the sword in the other hand of Nehemias builders l Neh. 4.17 is for necessary defence not unnecessary offence to keepe off enemies not to foine at their fellowes Our Master is the Prince of peace Esay 9.6 and his flocke are peaceable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inoffensive creatures not snarling Dogs but gentle sheepe Iohn 10. gentle in their inward quality gentle in their outward Coate Mistake not then my brethren as Samuel did Gods call for Elies this pleasing and peaceable gentlenesse is a vertue not only in Aristotles Morall but in Gods Theologicall Philosophy not a complement of a Courtier but an ornament of a true Israelite Said I an ornament I wronged it it is the soft wooll of Christs sheepe the very liverie of Gods Elect Col. 3.12 Put on as the Elect of God bowels of mercie kindnesse c. Thinke then on this I beseech you deare brethren you that please your selves too much in the neglect of pleasing others and in a good if moderate opposition to flattery and time serving run too much on the other hand while you entertaine a Cynicall roughnesse or selfe-conceited Stiffenesse too forward to give offence and breake Christs peace If our Lord should come to feele out his sheepe by the wooll to examine your faith by your carriage how may you expect to passe for sheepe if with the Hedge-hogge yee be all prickles to offend any hand that shall touch you yea with the Porcupine yee dart quils of censure at those which touch you not Come about then I pray and be Saint Pauls Schollers that his teaching may metamorphose you into sheepe teaching by precept Rom. 15.2 Let every man please his neighbour and here teaching the same by example even as I please And Who is my Neighbour is the Lawyers next quaere Luke 10.29 quibus whom must we please is the next circumstantiall question 3. All men that is as some would have it all good men and so make the Iew Gentile to meet in the Church of God Verse preced But it may plainly appeare to bee a large circumference drawne about that triangle the Iew and Gentile and the Church of God standing in triangular opposition each to other and each both to the third the Iew that was under the Law the Church that was under faith and the Gentile neither under the Law nor under faith As hee offended not the fish alreadie within the net lest they should run out so hee pleased the fish without the net that they might come in that they which obey not the word may without the word be wonne by conuer sation 1. Pet. 3.1 As he was 2. Cor. 11.28 iealous ouer these Corinthians whom he had alreadie espoused to Christ so was hee zealous in wooing more