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truth_n	believe_v	pleasure_n	unrighteousness_n	2,527	5	11.3215	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89597	The Kings censure upon recusants that refuse the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in three sermons, containing a refutation of some dangerous common errors, and a remonstration of the duties of administration and participation of that holy sacrament. Proving the necessity of receiving it. Reproving the neglect and contempt of it. Disproving the exceptions and excuses alleged against either the giving or taking of it. Set forth to publick view for the hungry and thirsty souls sake that desire to be satisfyed. By Thomas Marshal minister of the doctrin [sic] and sacraments of the Gospel.	Marshall, Thomas, 1621-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing M808; Thomason E732_24; ESTC R206892	44,049	52

this end that they all might be damned which believed not the Truth but had pleasure in Unrighteousness Whether the thoughts of Mens hearts be the dictates of God's Spirit they must prove by comparing them with what the Spirit of Truth writes in holy Scriptures And if the Spirit that speaks in thee contradicts the Spirit that writes in that 't is not of God neither are they his Servants that obey that his Servants hear his voyce that is the Master of the Feast And so from him now we come to them He said unto his Servants And they are mentioned before 3 Quibus to his Servants verse 3. the Men he sent out to call the Guests to the VVedding They ran not before they were sent as did the false Prophets but staid for their Mission and that was their Commission 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the verb the same from whence the name Apostle springs And again Luk. 10. Mat. 28. in the 9 verse he saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Go a word of Authority wherewith Christ sent out his Apostles in other places Observation Without Letters of Orders to take the Ministerial Office upon us is in the Church but disorder None ought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to call the Guests by preaching of the Word or wait on the Table of the Lord but whom he appoints to that Service And here the Servants are not to be taken in the common and largest sense for all that worship him and serve him as the People do but in a stricter and more peculiar way for them that officiate in his service as the Priests and Ministers do Kings make a difference in their Servants some wait more nearly upon their Persons some in Offices further off So doth God the King here who makes a distinction betwixt his Ministers and his People though all serve him together yet they in a nearer way Num. 16.9 God hath separated them to be near himself in the service of the Tabernacle and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto him They are his Stewards the People his Houshold they his Embassadours but those their Auditors they his Servitors those his Guests The Guests are sent for the Servants sent the Guests called the Servants call them Vers 3. He sent out his Servants to call them that were bidden A distinction then sure must be betwixt these two Vse 1. of Instruction Priest and People Clergy and Laity God hath ordained it so and gives no license to private men to take upon them the publick Ministring without a Lawfull yea and an External Calling To do so upon presumption of Gifts and Abilities is as great disorder in the Church as for the Common Souldier upon pretence of his skill and valour to usurp his Captains or chief Commanders place in the Camp or for the Common Lawyer upon pretence of his Learning and Judgement to set him down in the Judges place in the Court This to do without Commission brings all in all the three into confusion But for private men to officiate in the Priests room 2 Of Con● So 〈◊〉 though a Heathen yet a Wise Man so abhorred that he counted it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a deed deserving many deaths He it may be you will think was severe But God who is gentle and mercifull censured it worthy a foul Disease when he for offering Incense in the Priests office punished Vzziah the King with the Leprosie VVorthy of deprivation in King Saul 1 Sam. 13.11 12 13 14. who but once played the Sacrificer in case of necessity yet for this was cast out of the Throne both he and his Posterity Nay more than so worthy of death and that a strange death too Numb 16.40 in the 250 Princes of the Congregation that for offering Incense were consumed with strange Fire that came out from the Lord. And that for a memorandum That no Stranger which is not of the Seed of Aaron come near to offer Incense before the Lord that he be not as Corah and his Company And these all had the natural gift sufficient abilities to act those parts of the Priests Office they enterprised But God that was not therewithall pleased severely punished it as a prophanation for want of lawfull Calling and Consecration If private men for their practice of unlicensed preaching pretend there is more liberty under the Gospel to take on them the publick Ministry they are deceived there is no such warrant from the Word of God Not from the Prophecy of those times by Joel Ioel 2.28 which St. Peter saies was fulfilled in the Apostles speaking with Tongues those Magnalia Dei upon the day of Pentecost Act. 2.16 17. This is that saies he which was spoken by the Prophet Joel that in the last daies meaning the daies of the Gospel at the beginning of them not the last daies before the end of the World God will pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and Daughters shall prophecy as did the Daughters of Philip the Evangelist for this was a prediction of the holy Spirits emanation at the first plantation of the Gospel Act. 21.9 not of phanatique spirits eruption towards the end of the World when false Christs and false Prophets shall arise Mat. 24. and Mockers be in the last times which walk after their own lusts And these are they saies St. Jude which separate themselves Iude 18 19 and are sensual having not the Spirit Nor have they precept as they pretend for their practice That of St. Paul That all may prophecy one by one 1 Cor. 13.31 will not patronize them in it That is not to be understood of all the People private Men and Women which he forbids elswhere to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14.34 but of all the Prophets or Preachers lawfully called to instruct the Church of God as appears by the Context 'T is great boldness then without an external Calling from Men to assume that high Calling under God and to be as St. Basil tearms it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mans self-ordainer Yea a madness Lib. 4. Instit cap. 3. sect 14. saies Calvin Vt ab hominibus designetur Episcopus omninò ex ordine legitimae vocationis esse nemo sobrius inficiabitur That a Bishop or Minister should be designed of Men none but a mad Man will deny to be a lawfull Ordination Heb. 5.4 Exod. 29.1 St. Paul saith No man assumed the honour of the Priesthood unless he was called of God as Aaron was who was consecrated by Moses with a great deal of Ceremony But that none should upon a conceit of an internal Calling or Gift of the Spirit go out to preach without the external Consecration by Imposition of Hands the Holy Ghost hath given us a plain direction Act. 13.3 saying Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Called they were to the work of the

by the name of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is blood as ye see Pluta de adulat Amici discrimine no such humour flows from the immortal Gods Or else to secure his person and put him in safe custody as many better than they have beene and then tell him he is no God God is nusquam inclusus never kept within the walls of a Prison Cyclops that derided Ulysses for saying his wine in a Bottle was the God Bacchus would never take him for a God that should look out at a Grate No such condition is competible to our Sovereign God no corruption no restriction but rather the Majesty of a King upon his Throne And none of them dare challenge that I am sure None dare say he is King though more bold with God to say in these times he is God And our God is even so Rex quidam The certain King that made the marriage-Feast for his Son I have been somwhat long in the person of the King 2 The mo● dus dicendi how he speakes his Rights now in question required it I will be brief in the next His Speech unto his servants He said unto his servants God speaks three maner of waies First verbis creantibus with creating words Secondly verbis vocalibus with vocall words Thirdly verbis mentalibus with mental words to the minds and understandings of men After the first maner he spake when he made the Worlds He spake the word and they were made saith the Psalmist 148 Psalm 5. 4 Deut. 15. He commanded and they were created Sayd after the second maner when he gave the Law The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire saith Moses and ye heard the Voice of the words And after the third way he sake to the Prophets informing their minds and understandings Prophecy came not of old time by the will of man saith St. Peter 2 Pet. 1.21 but holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost And this last way he speaks still to his servants under the Gospel not with words of his voice unto their eares but with words of his mind or Spirit to their hearts The Spirit testifieth to our spirit saith St. Paul 8 Rom. 16. that we are the Sons of God Dicuntur tibi quaedam verba arcana intrinsecus ut dubitare non possis quin juxta te sit Spiritus saith St. Cyprian There are certain words spoken to thee inwardly so that thou canst not choose but know the Spirit speaks unto thee These are the good motions of the Spirit that speaks to inform thee in the truth perform good duties reform ill maners 30 Esay 21. and admonish thee of dangers Thou shalt hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it when thou turnest to the Right hand or the left And after this way the King intimates his pleasure now concerning the Feast and the Guests when he saies to his servants The Wedding is ready but they that were bidden are not worthy And of this manner of speaking Application to two sorts I should now say no more but for those of our times that forge the Mandats of this great Monarch and wrest the words of his letters Patent and say Sic dicit Dominus thus saith the Lord when the Lord hath not so spoken And they are of two sorts some publike Pastors and others privat Professors as they have used to stile themselves And first 1 To some Preachers 5 Ier. 30 31. some Pastors there are or Prophets that do so In the Jewish Church were such A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the Land the Prophets prophesie falsly saith Jeremie and the People love to have it so And a Conspiracy of such Prophets Ezekiel speaks of 22 Ezek. 25. that destroyed Souls for love of Luore made many Widdows and dawbed the Princes with untempered morter 28. divining lies and seeing vanity and saying Thus saith the Lord when the Lord had not spoken But there are no such in our Church if every one may be heard speak for himself They will say every one with Saul to Samuel when God sent him against the Amalekites I have obeyed the voice of the Lord 1 Sam. 15. But what mean the bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxen which I hear in mine cares said Samuel So what mean the crying Sins and Blasphemous Heresies of the times which we hear in our eares God sends thee to cut down these as he sent Saul to slay them But they spare them as Saul did the Amalekites for favour or feare love of Lucre and Preferment whereby they spread and increase 22 Numb Oh that we had no such Balaams among us that will be hired with promotions to curse Israel and yet say they will not speak more or less than the word of the Lord for an house full of Silver and Gold But they are not to be trusted upon their word in a matter of that moment as is the everlasting estate of your Souls that will be drawn with the byass of by-respect from the scope and mark that they are chiefly to aim at Such as are the cause of Schisms and Sins contrary to the sound Doctrine ye have learned St. Paul bids Mark and avoyd Neither is this the fault of some publick Preachers onely 2 To some Professors but of some private Professours too who of late have learnt a way to counterfeit the King's Coyn and set his own stamp upon their own base adulterate Metal put a Verbum Domini or a Sic dicit Deus upon the thoughts and imaginations of their own hearts A conceit so full of deceit and delusion as nothing can be more Ger. 6.5 Every imagination of the thoughts of Man's heart is evil continually said God Not the suggestions of Satan onely but what imagination proceeds from Man's heart is evil not some thoughts onely but every imagination of the thoughts not sometimes neither but so continually Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders Mat. 15.19 adulteries fornications false-witness blasphemies saith our Saviour No such ungodly motions can be of God unless they mean another God the God of this World an expression of St. Paul's wherewith he dignifies the Devil 2 Cor. 4.4 Prava cogitatio Sathanae seminatio Evil cogitation is the Devil's suggestion Mat. 16.23 who as he spake in Peter an Apostle to Christ to favour himself so may better be thought to speak in People apostate to prompt them on to errour and sin A strong delusion it is which God justly sends upon some of this Nation to their damnation for their wilfull descrtion of the Truth which was so plent fully preached among them And so St. Paul saies 2 Thess 2.11 12. That for this cause God shall send a strong delusion that they shall believe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an untruth falshood or heresie or lye to