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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64178	Love one another: a tub lecture, preached at Watford in Hartfordshire at a conventicle on the 25. of December last, being Christmas day, by John Alexander, a joyner. His text was taken out of the epistle of Saint Iohn, and himselfe was taken by Captaine Bird, Lieutenant Rock, and other officers, from whom he received such usage as his doctrine did deserve; for which the said officers were commended by the Parliament.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T476; ESTC R6037	5,311	9

Love one another A TVB LECTVRE PREACHED At Watford in Hartfordshire at a Conventicle on the 25. of December last being Christmas day by JOHN ALEXANDER a Joyner His text was taken out of the Epistle of Saint Iohn and himselfe was taken by Captaine Bird Lieutenant Rock and other officers from whom he received such usage as his doctrine did deserve for which the said officers were commended by the Parliament Printed in the yeare of private instructing Love one another BEloved you are well met in this solemn Synagogue to hear from me those words of Truth and wholesome Doctrine which this day you shall receive from me your teacher And you are to understand that although I have had but six shillings at a collection for my other Sermons which like good seed I have sowed among you and the fruite whereof in a plentifull increase to your great advantage you have reaped yet for this Sermon I shall well deserve twelve shillings both for the solmnesse of the day and the sweetnesse of the Doctrine that floweth from my Text and the gravity and Authority of me your Teacher I will dispense a little with your Christian patience with the two first reasons or inducements and begin first with the last which is the sufficiency of your Teacher And what man indeed more fitting to direct your understanding in this point then I who am your known your deare your persecuted Alexander whose life you have seen whose Doctrine you have heard whose zeal in the holy Cause you have admired This is not the first time you have heard of my prayses nor shall it be the last To whom is it more sutable to discourse upon this Text of Love then unto me who by profession am a Joyner a man ordained to joyne and settle things in order and if the husband of the Virgin Mary as the Text saith was but a Carpenter I believe a Joyner is not to be despised A Carpenter Beloved doth raise Seats or formes in the House of God but it is the office of a Joyner to make the Pulpit but when the Joyner doth not onely make the Pulpit but is the Preacher that is in the Pulpit who joyneth Truth to Falshood Ignorance unto Knowledge and Misdevotion unto Zeal what a Joyner nay what a Conjoiner must that be and this Beloved is the happinesse which you all behold and injoy in me this day and so much briefly for my self who am your Teacher I will now return unto my first particular which is the solemnesse of the day And in the first place not to conceive of me to be so superstitious as to make any conscience of the solemnity of this day because the Church hath ordained or doth enjoyn no God forbid I should be so prophane it is a detestation of their blindnesse that have brought me hither this day to enlighten your eyes and to informe your eares how much they are abused and doe abuse the ignorant and a consciousnesse withall of my present wants which crave a supply from your Christian charities to relieve them and in the first place I give you to understand that the very name of Christmas is Idolatrous and prophane and so verily are the whole twelve dayes wherein the wicked make many daily and nightly sacrifices to Riot and sensuality The Papists Christmas pardon me Beloved that I am forced to repeat the word doth begin in Holland ten dayes before it doth in England for so I have been informed by a godly brother from Amsterdam wherein they make more haste the good speed and in their doing so three things offer themselves to our observation There are three sorts of men that make haste The first that make more haste then good speed The second those that make haste with good speed The third those that make neither haste nor good speed of these in their order and first of the first They that make more haste then good speed those I say are the Popish and the Idolatrous Churches that in their Superstitious Rites and Ceremonies follow them and this indeed is the way of all sinners and Reprobates whatsoever thus in the Gunpowder-Treason they made more haste then good speed Thus Guido Faux that limb of the Devill with his dark lanthorn which was another limb of the Devill for every work of darknesse is a limb of the Devill made more haste then good speed Thus the Earle of Newcastle at this present with his Papisticall Army makes more haste then good speed to overthrow our Ierusalem and to ●oot out the true Reformed Religion from amongst us but God I hope will put a bridle in his mouth and send him back the way he came or send ●im to those whose battells he fights whither yet he never came The second sort of those that make haste are they that make haste with ●ood speed and those Beloved with teares of joy I speak it are your ●elves who are met all together to heare me this day Thus the Prodigall makes hast with good speed to discharge the Usurer before the use of his money doth eate into his acres and leaves him and his posterity desolate The third sort of those that make haste are they who neither make haste nor good speed And these Beloved Let it not trouble your patience for I must needs speak the truth are our carelesse servants at home I am afraid now who while our pots are boyling over make no haste ●ill all the fat is fallen into the fire Thus the foolish Virgins would put no oyle into their Lampes untill overtaken by the Bridegroome they were refused as unserviceable And thus the slothfull in the Proverbs deferreth his travell from day untill at the last he is inforced to goe in the rain and not able in it either to make haste or good speed is sowsed to the skinne And thus I have done with my three observations occasioned on my meitation of my first inducement which was the solemnes of the day I now come unto the second which is the sweetnesse of the Doctrine that is flowing from my Text My Text you heare is Love a very necessary Text in these contentious times whenever we our selves are troubled are persecuted and routed in in our Synagogues when we cannot have those expositions and preachings with that priviledge and security as becometh us when the Reprobate and prophane intrude themselves into our assembly and catch at our words to make us or odious or ridiculous When our feastings are made the admiration of the gluttons and our Graces thought longer then the Prayers of the Liturgy-mongers when our honest desires of competency in wealth is accounted coveteousnesse and the closenesse and wisdome of our carriages passeth for hypocrisie Brethren and Sisters these are the last dayes into which we are fallen and it behoveth us mark what I say to be as wife as Serpents and because we are pursued derided and traduced though if all things succeed according to our prayers there