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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79867	Plain truth, or, A seasonable discourse of the duties of people to their pastors In an essay upon Heb. 13:17 Obey them that have the Rule over you, &c. / By a well wisher of all good Christians.	Well wisher of all good Christians.; Clark, James, 1660-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing C4465; ESTC R171375	13,320	18

PLAIN TRUTH OR A SEASONABLE DISCOURSE Of the DUTIES of PEOPLE To their PASTORS In an Essay upon Heb 13 17. Obey them that have the Rule over you c. The first Book of Discipline Heed 4. p. 30. The People would be exhorted to Reverence and Honour their Ministers chosen as the Servants and Ambassadours of the LORD JESVS Obeying the Commandement which they pronounce from GODS Mouth and Book even as they would Obey GOD Himself Pooles Annotations on 1 Kings 6 7. It is the Duty of the Builders and Members of the Church as farr as in them lyes to take care that all things be transacted there with perfect Peace and Quietness and that no noise of contention or division or violence be heard in that Sacred Building Jo Davenantius Sarisbur Episc de pace Eccles p 89 90 Omnes necesse habent confiteri veram genuinam Charitatem esse omnibus Ecclesiis Christianarum Ecclesiarum Membris non minus ad salutem necessariam quam fidei Orthodo●●● salutiferae veram Integram Professionem By a Well Wisher of all good Christians EDINBURGH Printed by J Reid in the Year 1693. To be Sold by James Wardlaw at his Shop opposite to the midle of the Lucken-Booths A SIGH AND A VOTE OH were my Head as full of Tears As is my Heart of Fears With watred Cheeks I would Lament Because the Church is Rent All say we should in Love Vnite As is both Just and Meet Yet none will quite a hair or * I mean ●● of Truth hoove For the Churches behoof GOD knows this shows not Wit nor Grace Base Self takes too much place LORD send me Joy in stead of Tears And Hope in stead of Fears The Churches Peace LORD let me see Matched with Veritie And let me see Vniting Love Working like Thine above That Saints each others faults may hide For all are apt to slide LORD make Thy Grace 'bove self ascend So be it to the end Some Necessary ADVERTISEMENTS to the READER CHRISTIAN Reader I Have been in manie Debates and perplexities of mind anent the publication of the ensuing Discourse having suffered a smart conflict through the interchangeable blows of these contending Parties in my bosome viz Scripture Reason Conscience Self Hope and Fear But while I was languishing under the wounds of this warfare I received some recruite of Spirits and strength from the same Divine Oracle that the worthie and pious Mr. Burroughs tells us did quiet his mind in a like case I will give you his own words He that meddles with the division of the times may expect to be divided himself to have his name his repute to be cut assunder and thrown this way and that way But seeing Providence hath brought it so fullie into my way I shall now venture upon it with my heart cast and fixed upon that promise Prov. 11.3 The uprightness of the upright shall guide him Irenic c 3 11. I was also induced to offer this Essay from the consideration of the seasonableness and usefulness of this subject and several other motives all which I will not here mention but seeing a better hand has penned some of them I will give them in his words Mr. James Fergusson Expos on 1 Thess 5 12 p 234. So great an enemy is Satan to the Ordinance of a publick Ministry so necessary is it that People do countenance that Ordinance and encourage those who are intrusted with it so ignorant unmindfull and neglective are they of those duties which they ought to perform that the Servants of CHRIST should with much seriousness and affectionate Insinuation press upon the LORDS People all such duties of Respect Reverence Love Obedience Submission Heb 13.17 And gratitude Gal 6 6 as they owe unto their Ministers so far should they be from a total neglect of pressing any such duties under a pretence of self-denyal or from preposterous modestie Thus far that wise and pious man I am not without some dumpish apprehension I wish they be not Ominous that I may be evil spoken of and misconstrued for my pains in what I offer in the ensuing Lucubration for there is a prodigious Plague-spirit of detraction and evil speaking raging at this time as also of too credulous entertaining Jealouzies and Reproaches but I hope the sincerity of my Intention and the kindness of the great Patron of Truth will support me being resolved to expose my self to a fair Venture seeing I am persuaded it is Truth and seasonable Truth that I have delivered but though I may sustaine the dammage of evil speaking yet if I understood that but any one got solid good I would rejoice more in that then I will he sorrie for what rash Censures some Scores may pass upon me for very commonly the less Judicious and intelligent are most ready to carpe and censure Hos 4.4.6 Prov 26 12 16. Which therefore should not be thoughtfully heeded Bue if any good Souls whom the LORD knows I intend not to offend or griive shal either inadvertently mistake or uncharitably misjudge me as I hope GOD will not by imposing Sinister Senses on any thing I say I pray GOD may forgive them as I do and that the Judge of all Flesh may he more mercifull to them then they are Just to me And more specially I caution here that seeing the Tendency of some Passages in the following Essay is for recomending Vnion and Charitie I may not be mistaken for I am far from Heterogeneous mixtures or such pieces of Alloy as may corrupt or damnifie Religion for it s my hearts wish there may he a holy Ministrie and a holy People And O that there were a Gospel Spirit poured forth kindly disposing all parties People to say by prejudices Animosities seriously consider what may most probabl● contribute for the credit safety of the Protestant Christian Religion and for my own part I have smal hopes of the further propagation thereof or that its primitive puritie lustre will be recovered till all parties see the Ingredient hand they have had in obstructing destroying the Comon Interests thereof and thereupon repent and turn unto GOD whom we have provocked to divide us in his anger And if we take Godly and Christian Methods for this effect there is yet hope in Israel concerning this thing for our GOD who is the same Yesterday and to Day and for ever has cured as desperate Maladies as ours are I thought fit to tell thee that I have industriously and of design cited some passages from the Writing 's of Masters James Durham G Gillespie Samuel Rutherfoord Jet Burroughs Richard Baxter Richard Vines Wil Green-hill and Rich Alleine all of them unquestionably pious and able Ministers of the Gospell to homologate what I say that if thou will quarrel and censure all the burden may not ly upon my weak shoulders alone but I may have stronger then my self to help me with a lift In the last place I