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A88600	The watchmans watchword. A sermon preached at White-Hall upon the 30 of March last, being the fifth Wednesday in Lent, and the day of the monethly fast: by Richard Love D.D. Master of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplain in ordinary to his Majestie. Published by command.	Love, Richard, 1596-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing L3193; Thomason E145_4; ESTC R19765	34,052	46

come no Advocate for pompous ignorance or learned silence This particular prophesie in the verse before the Text is called ye know The burden of Dumah and Dumah from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence perhaps our English dumbe doth come is silentium silence Duma vel similitudinem vel silentium sonat Hieron in locum Dumah interpretatur silentium saith S. Bernard then surely to an idle silence wheresoever it is found there doth belong a burden a heavy judgement is threatned from the mouth of God Neither our Watchmans seeing nor his overseeing must stop his saying Let the Watchman have his Watch-tower but let not that tower be so high that his voice may not be heard below Prepare him a table but let not his table be made a snare unto him to stop his breath God as he hath placed the eyes in the head so the tongue too The Bishops chair is not a chair of state or chair of ease S. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 3.2 must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His chair is then Cathedra doctoralis it is the chair of Moses and thence they are to teach and preach even by their example to encourage preachers to preach up preaching Praedicatio praecipuum munus Episcoporum The very Councel of Trent determines it Sess 5.10.2 Preaching is the chiefest flower in the Bishops garden An unpreaching Bishop is an Idole in the Church That hath eyes and sees not at least he hath a mouth and speaks not It was a fearfull complaint that of S. Gregory of his times Ad exteriora negotia delapsi sumus aliud ex honore suscipimus atque aliud ex officio actionis exhibemus Ministerium praedicationis relinquimus ad poenam nostram ut video Episcopi vocamur qui honoris nomen non virtutis tenemus Greg. Hom. 17. in Ev●ng I will not english it But if we stop our mouths it is no marvell if the people open theirs When the watchmen were asleep you know the story Anseres clangore alarum crepitu M. Manlium excitarunt Liv. Dec. 1. lib. 5. etiam striderunt anseres the geese once gagled to save the Capitol The onely way to stop their clamours is to use our own Clama nè cesses Cry aloud and spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet Isaiah 58.1 This voice will drown their cries It is not all the learning in thy brain will do it Scire tuum nihil est Pers It must be thy learning in thy tongue The Lord hath given me the Tongue of the learned Isaiah 50.4 It is the Priests lips and not his head that must preserve knowledge and the people seek the Law at his mouth Mal. 2.7 Good Zachary indeed though a Priest was dumbe Luke 1.22 but when his tongue could not his pen did speak He made signes for his writing-tables Luke 1.62,63 In that case his pen may be his tongue but otherwise his tongue like Davids must be his pen My tongue is the pen of a ready writer Psal 45.2 They say in the fable that when Argus was set a watch to Io Mercury the feigned Deity of eloquence did charm him Ovid. Our Watchman must have the eyes of Argus saith Hector Pintus In Isai●… and the tongue of Mercury He must open the doore of utterance by the key of knowledge He must both see and say yea and say what he seeth That is the third branch Otherwise he is but a treacherous Watchman a false and lying Prophet A Prophet a true Minister of the Gospel whatsoever the world now thinketh is an Angel of light an Herauld of heaven an Embassadour of God Especially an ancient and Reverend Father of the Church he is the head The ancient and honourable he is the head Isaiah 9 15. But on the contrary a lying a flattering and seducing Prophet he is the tayl The Prophet that telleth lyes he is the tayl what more base Metaphora à canibus serpentibus ducta qui caudâ blandientes sensim illabuntur venenum evomunt Cor. in locum O take heed of these the poyson of asps is under their lips and the sting of death is in their tayls These leaders of the people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed Isaiah 9.16 Such are Romes Scouts their Emissaries their Spies even treacherous Watchmen who hold out false fires to poore straying souls and give false alarums to frighted consciences You know who it is that is a lying spirit in the mouth of the Prophets 2. Chron. 18.21 As for us we have our light too and our alarum even Gods word and the true preaching of that word We have also a more sure word of prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place 2. Pet. 1.19 But with the word must go the alarum The faithfull Belman the walking Watchman of the night commonly is furnished not onely with his lantern but his bell A Minister of Gods Church he must have his lantern Not one borrowed from Faux not Romes lantern not a dark one the lantern of humane Traditions by which they can turn the light of Doctrine which way they please no Judas lantern John 18.3 to betray Gods truth but Davids lantern the written word of God Thy word saith David is a lantern unto my feet and a light unto my paths But as he must have Davids lantern so he must have Aarons bells We hardly think a Churchman possessed till he have rung his bells That is but a supposed Ceremonie at his entrance but the ringing of this bell the constant and faithfull preaching of the true word of God is the main substance of our performance By this he rings all in he rings the truth of Christ into the peoples eares and hearts he rings both himself and all his auditours into heaven Take heed to thy self and to thy doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt save thy self and them that heare thee 1. Tim. 4.16 Blessed are those watchmen whom the Lord when he cometh shall find thus watching If he shall come in the second watch or in the third watch blessed are those servants Luke 12.37,38 And such we may suppose was the Watchman of the Text a seeing saying faithfull Watchman As it seemeth he did not onely vigilare but excubias agere he kept both watch and ward like Jacob he watched his flock both day and night Gen. 31.40 The Watchword doth import no lesse Here are tidings of the Morning and tidings of the Night The morning cometh and also the night Like the vigilant and spritefull cock the native watchman of the house he no sooner perceiveth the morning dawn but falls a crowing Nay like S. Peters cock Matth. 26.75 he croweth and crieth for our repentant tears To Inquire to Return to Come