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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15400	An harmonie vpon the first booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode obserued in Hexapla vpon Genesis, and Exodus, but more compendiously abridged, these speciall things are obserued vpon euery chapter: the diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controuersies briefly touched, and morall collections applied. Wherein aboue foure hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 25678; ESTC S120031	271,285	362

workemanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which God hath ordained that we should walke in them Eph. 2.10 but the decree of election is not grounded vpon any such condition respect or foresight of our workes and faith for then contrarie to the Apostle Rom. 9.15 it should be in him that willeth and runneth and not in God that sheweth mercie 14. Quest. v. 23. Whether Samuel should haue sinned if he had ceased to pray for the people and to shew them the good way 1. There are sinnes of omission when a dutie commanded is left vndone as there are sinnes of commission when things are committed which are vnlawfull and forbidden to be done of duties omitted some are priuate and in them there is lesse daunger some are publike the omitting whereof is a losse and hindrance to many and the default herein is more grieuous and offensiue And of these duties some concerne the ciuill and politike state as the administration of iustice some the spirituall estate condition of the soule as in teaching and instructing and preaching the word And of all other the omission of these duties is most displeasing to God discommodious to his Church and dangerous to their soule by wome the default is committed And therefore Samuel saith here in direct tearmes farre be it from me that I should sinne against the Lord and cease praying for you yea I will instruct you in the good and right way Samuel confesseth he should haue sinned if he ceased or intermitted to pray for thē and teach them and to execute his Propheticall office among them as the Apostle saith Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel 1. Cor. 9.16 2. If such necessitie be laid vpon Prophets and Apostles then and Pastors and Ministers now to preach the Gospel doth it not follow that euery Pastor in his particular charge is bound to preach vnto his people continually and to sanctifie the Lords day with them in preaching the word and that a Pastor beeing not necessarily letted omitting to preach doth not hallow the Lords day as the Lord requireth and will it not follow vpon Samuels conclusion that whosoeuer ceaseth to pray and preach for and to his people especially vpon the Lords day which is consecrated to those exercises therein sinneth This position then that euery Pastor not necessarily absent or otherwise necessarily letted is bound to pray with and preach to his people euery Lords day and in omitting these duties vnhalloweth for his part that sacred day it may be iustified by the word of God and by the continuall practise of the Church For the Lord saith by his Prophet If the watchman see the sword comming and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken for his iniquitie but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand Ezech. 33.6 7. When should the Minister blow the trumpet but vpō the Lords day which is as it were the feast of blowing the trumpet of the word of God and is there not feare of Gods iudgements continually and doth not the Pastor daily see the Lords sword drawne out against sinne if he then spare to tell the people thereof his danger is great Moses was read and preached in the Synagogues euery Sabboth day Act. 15.21 S. Paul saith Necessitie is laide vpon me and woe if I preach not the Gospel The Prophet saith Cursed is he that doth the worke of God negligently Ierem. 48.10 S. Peter is an ensample to all good Pastors who saith I thinke it meete as long as I am in this tabernacle to stirre you vp by putting you in remembrance 2. Pet. 1.13 For if parents are bound to whet vpon their children the law of God Deuter. 6.7 often to inculcate vnto them the Lords commaundements much more is it the dutie of the Pastor if bodily almes is not to be deferred till to morrow if we now haue it Proverb 2.28 how much more is not spirituall almes to be deferred Further if a Pastor preach not vnto his people where he is not letted by necessarie absence publike imployment or sicknes and infirmitie and so is staied by the hand of God by his priuate necessary affaires beeing abroad or by the publike busines of the Church what is the cause of his not preaching either it is his want of abilitie and then he is an intruder or if he can and will not it is his want of zeale and sheweth idlenes and negligence which in Gods busines is accursed as the Prophet saith or he would and can not by reason of many Churches which he hath cure and charge of which proceedeth of greedines and couetousnes so then which soeuer of these causes is pretended whether it be the ignorant idle or couetous Pastor he can not be excused in leauing such a principall dutie vndone vpon the Lords day for euery one according to his place is to sanctifie the Lords day he that is taught sanctifieth it in hearing the word reuerently communicating with the praiers of the Church deuoutly but he that teacheth must sanctifie the Lords day not as one of the sheepe but as a Pastor not as an hearer but as a teacher or els he sanctifieth it not as he ought and his fault and negligence is so much the greater because he onely doth not faile in sanctifying the Lords day himselfe but is the occasion that others sanctifie it not as they would and might by hearing the word preached I doe reuerence in this behalfe that worthie Canon of the Trullan Councell Oportet eos qui praesunt Ecclesiis omnibus quidem diebus sed maxime dominicis populum docere pietatis eloquia ex divina scriptura colligentes iudicia veritatis They which are set ouer the Churches ought vpon all daies but most of all the Lords daies teach the people the precepts of pietie gathering out of the Scripture the iudgemēts of truth Trul. c. 19. Augustine hath an excellent reason to shew the necessitie of the often preaching of the word Certissime scitote fratres quia qualis est caro quae post multos dies percipit cibum talis est anima quae non assidue pascitur verbo dei c. Know ye brethren for a certentie that as the flesh is which after many daies receiueth food such is the soule which is not continually fed with Gods word de Temp. Serm. 56. Origen long before him saide In nostro dominico die semper pluit Dominus Manna de coelo In our Lords day the Lord alwaies raineth Manna from heauen hom 7. in Exod. Who will not embrace that worthie saying ascribed to Damasus Omnis negligenter pascens toties sibi commendatum dominicum gregem convincitur summum non amare pastorem nec eius se velle discipulum fieri cuius exempla negligit imitari Euery one negligently feeding the Lords flocke so often commended vnto him is conuinced not to loue the