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A43040	The sectaries downfall: or, A treatise of the calling of ministers Wherein the orthodox clergie are approved to be the onely true and lawfull pastors of the Church of God. That all others besides them, (pretend what they please) for their usurping the ministry, without any lawfull call, are but thieves and robbers, and seducers of the people. By William Harvey, minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.	Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1093A; ESTC R218427	16,757	49

as much danger as a Ship in a storme without Anchor or Cable ready every minute to be cast away for I may say of them as Solomon of a whore Their house is the way to hell going downe to the chambers of Death Prov. 7.27 O Lord J pray thee so to open the eyes of thy People and so to inlighten their understandings that they may know thy voyce alone in the mouth of thy faithful Ministers and that among all the changes and chances of this mortall life they and wee may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen And now I come to my fourth and last Particular viz. That every Minister being lawfully Called must attend upon his calling without medling with Secular affairs No man that warreth saith St. Paul entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life c. 2 Tim. 2.4 Which words saith * Super locum Theophilact are spoken to all Bishops When there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes because their Widowes were neglected in the daily Ministration Then the twelve saith the text called the multitude of the Disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of GOD and serve Tables Acts 6.1,2 Pluribus intentus minor est ad singula Sensus A mans mind busied about many things is lesse intent to any one thing alone I hope you will beleeve him that said it a man cannot serve two Master for either hee will love the one and hate the other or else he will cleave to the one and despise the other wee cannot serve GOD and Mammon Even so a man cannot serve two Callings well for if one be followed the other will be neglected If a Divine hath his thoughts too much upon the world he must of necessity be more remisse in the Service of God one cannot Plough and Cart at once The mischiefe of this was so well knowne to our fore-Fathers that Clerks were forbidden to meddle with Civill affaires as unbeseeming Divines and such as serve at the Altar Can Apost 6. 82. and Concil Chalcedonens can 7. act 15. Non Convenit unum duplicem habere Professionem saith St. Ambros It is not for one man to have two Professions The Prophet Isaiah will tell you what the Office of a Minister is Chap. 52. vers 6 7. J have set Watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem which shall never hold their peace day nor night Yee that make mention of the Lord keepe not silence and give him no rest c. When the Apostles were sent forth our Saviour saith And as yee goe Preach saying The Kingdome of heaven is at hand Math. 10.7 and Math. 28.19,20 Goe yee therefore and teach all Nations c. Teaching them to observe c. And to make an end St. Paul saith Woe be unto me if J Preach not the Gospell What can our Laicks then say for themselves What starting holes have they now By what Divinity or by what Logick can they prove it lawfull to Cobble all the weeke and Preach upon the Sabbath day To throw a Shuttle and cry What doe you lack Sir the six dayes and then presume in God his house to tell a Tale or their owne Dreames to the people Proh pudor Quis cui as they said of a simple unlearned man that succeeded St. Chrysostome Alas what a sory fellow is this In whose roome is he placed So may wee justly exclaime against this froth and filth who leap our of their Shops into a Pulpit Alas what sory fellowes are these In whose roome do they stand And as for that Common objection to maintain their actions St. Paul was a Tent-maker and some of the Apostles Fishermen c. it is so poore and void of Sence as it s not worth the answering In the meane time if they be still hardened seeing their wayes are perverse before the Lord as the Angel said to Balaam Num. 22.32 God give the People grace to avoid them as Mariners doe rocks and ●ands And as for them Hee that is filthy let him be filthy still Apoc. 22.11 And now my Brethren and fellow labourers in the Lord's harvest Let it be farre from you to doe the work of the Lord negligently Heare this and tremble J charge thee therefore before GOD and the Lord JESVS CHRIST who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and Kingdome c. Preach the word being instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine 2 Tim. 4.12 Never were there more ravening Wolves that come in Sheepes clothing in the memory of man Let us have a care Sirs then of the flock The thief we know commeth not but for to steale and to kill and to destroy Iohn 10.10 Let us then stand up and defend the poor Sheep of CHRIST If by our default any shall dye in his iniquity his blood will God require at our hand Ezek. 3.18 How doth it behoove thee then thou man of God to looke to thy charge and to take heed to thy Selfe and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made thee Over-seer to feed the Church of God which hee hath purchased with his owne blood as St. Paul chargeth the Elders of Ephesus Acts 20.58 But I blush to speaste it There be many Ministers that mind the world more then the weale of their Flock Here one is a Physitian another a Lawyer a third a Merchant One minds more the Ploughing of his field then the ploughing up the fallow ground of mens hearts and delights more to sow his Land then to cast the seed of God's saying word into the hearts of his Congregation You shall have them oftner at a Faire or Market to buy and sell then at their Studies for the good of mens Soules Hence it is that they are so cold and faint in their Exhortations and Reproofes to the people When they should be bold and lift up their voyees like Trumpe●s shew the people of God their transgressions and the house of Iacob their Sins Isiah 58.1 Then * Exod. 14.25 the Chariot wheeles of their zeale and devotion are taken off so that they drive heavily Not long since if a Minister was abus'd undeservedly hee had the Law to right him though that hedge be broken downe But saith Bishop * Babing in P●… Babington If hee follow the Cow faire and Sow faire and so happen to get a broken pate as the Law saith he in this kind will not help him so I for my part and I too will not greatly pitty him And so I will conclude with that of St. Hierome Hierom. ad Nepot Neg●tiatorem Clericum ex inope divitem ex ignobili gloriosum quasi quandam pestem fuge A worldly Minister growne rich from poverty glorious from baseness avoid and shun as a kind of Plague But againe in case of Necessity a Minister may step aside when