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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

time supported possessed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with assurance of obtaining her suit Secondly it appropriats and applyes the promise of salvation personally as it doth also other the treasures of Gods Church Act. 15. 11. David by this faith praiseth God for the forgiuenesse of his particular sinnes Ps. 103. 3. Paul assureth himselfe of Gods favour and loue in this life and of his vndoubtable salvation in the next Gal. 2. 20. Iob comforteth himselfe with the assurance of his redemption and r●surrection to life Iob. 19. 25 26. 27. I knowe c. This Christ iustified in Thomas crying my God and my Lord when he reioyned thou hast beleeued Thomas Mary of her selfe when her soule reioyced in God her Saviour This kinde of beleefe our adversaries vtterly renounce and revile which yet makes the difference betwixt Christian obedience and godly honestie and civill carriage and honest in●ideli●ie and without which it is impossible for to please God Heb. 11. 6. Gal. 2. 21. Eph. 2. 9. Gal. 5. 4. Tit. 3. 5. Heb. 10. 14. Eph. 2. 5. Rom. 5. 6. 8. Rom. 5. 10. Rom. 5 6. Heb. 5. 9. 1. P●t 1. 18. 19. Heb. 9. 22. Eph. 1. 6. Eph. 2. 7. Rom. 11. 6. Rom. 5. 1. Gal. 2. 21. Rom 4. 16. m Which is yet the fittest mean to set f●rth the grace of God as the Apostle himselfe there imports ●uk 17. 8. 10. God owes vs no thanks though we doe all things commanded bec●use wee ought to doe th● Where or what is our desert then who doe not all 1. Ioh. 4. 19. 1. Cor. 4. 7. Phil. 1. 6. 1. Cor. 15. 10. n Papists confine Gods kindnesse in Christ to this present life averring Christ to haue merited gra●● for them by the right vse whereof they truely and properly merit for themselues and are fully worthy of everlasting life after that insolent assertion of the Rhem. 2. Tim. 4. 8. Hereby 1. they make Chri●●s merit a remote and inchoating cause in this businessē their owne the compleat and immediate 2. Christs infinite worth of finite efficacy their owne sorged finite defiled workes of infinite force 3. the sure●y to pay a debt not for the discharge of the debter but to the end that the debter should more fully and sufficiently discharge it himselfe 4. Men more beholden to themselues then they are bound to God sithence he only enables them by grace to doe well they are thenceforth to depend vpon their own deeds by which they deserue that life to the attainement whereof all that ever Christ did serues but as an introduction or disposition which they can accept of or reiect at their pleasure 5. They set vp too arrogantly mans ri●hteousnesse against the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10. 3. 6. So should workes merit which are 1 too due to deserue as Christ Luk. 17. 2. Too impure and void of proportion with eternitie as Ferus grounding on Isa 4. and Rom. 8. 18. 3. Not our owne but his workes in vs as Paul Eph 4. Then good habits and deeds which God hath enabled vs to doe binds him in iustice to giue vs more so that he should be vniust if he gaue it not Against Durands vnanswerable reason that no mans free gift can bind him to giue more 7. Then should that grace either make our workes perfect o● mans imperfect workes should thereby become meritorious If the first whence come the complaint● of men in the state of grace yea of highest stature in that state Rom. 7. Psal. 130. If the latter the● must God who is perfectly iust change this righteous sentence of his law that every transgressor is c●r●sed and only the perfect keeper thereof blessed Gal. 3. 10. 12. Ioh. 3. 16. Gal. 3. 10. 2 Tim. 1. 18. Heb. 9. ●8 2. Cor. 5. 21. Luk 21. 28. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Heb. 10 19. Ioh. 14. 2. Eph. 3. 6. Eph. 1. 5. Eph. 2. 7. Ps. 103 13. 14. Rom. 9. 11. 1. Sam. 12. 22. Isa. 43. 25. Ezek. 36. 22. Rom. 9. 11. Rom. 11. 35. Mi● 7. 18. 19. Isa. 65. 1. Iohn 6. 44. Phil. 2. 13. o If nature the● pride her selfe of any inb●ed vertue and pro●er power of so much as assenting to her first call cut her in the mouth with that negation Not vnto vs O Lord if of strength to concurre and cooperate with grace assisting curbe her againe with Not vnto vs. If yet borne vp with her borrowed plumes she soare so high as to claime heauen by merit for her habitation conuince her of pride and pr●sum●tuous intrusion by warrant from him vnto whose name we giue all the glorie of our pre●ention employment compensation 〈◊〉 3● 10. Psal. 143. 2. Iob. 9. 20. Verse 2. 3. 2 Cor. 12. 1 Cor. 15. 10. 2 Cor. 11. Phil. 3. 9. Papists act their opposite part on the Popes owne theatre Stell in Lue. 7. pag. 215. Non me aspicias c. Moriar peri● The defect whereof caused God in iealousie as ho●e as fire to renounce the ordinances of his owne lips the sacrific●s and other seruices of the lewes Isa. 1. 12. 15. Rom. 3. 27. Isa 42. 8. and 48. 11. Rom. 4. 16. The second difference about the assurance of saluation q Conc. ●rid Sess 6 c●p 3. 〈◊〉 15. r One reason why the Church of Rome cannot attaine this assurance lyeth pa●tly in the change partly in the corruption of that seed and food whereof she sho●ld ●e b●●d and brought vp For where the right seede is rightly sowne where the true bread of life is faithfully broken with●ut m●xt●re of mans leauen and the milke of the word s●●cerely suckt in there it attaines the end for which it was dispatched by causin● the faithfull soule to put off in the Apostles sense feare of death and loue of life to assront Angels withstand principalities contest with powers to dispense with things present for passing things to come for suspend●ng with the affrightment of height and discouragement of depth as vnable any or all of them backed with the countenance of any other creature to separate it from the loue of God which 〈◊〉 in Christ Iesus Rom. 838. 39. Act. 19. 25. 28. Act. 16. 18. 19. 1 Tim. 6. 6. Eph. 2. 2. s O. a●u●o vocis mundi mode●aris habenas 〈◊〉 merito in terris diceris esse deus If the seuerall points of Popish doctrine with the meanes of planting and supporting them be throughly weighed Poperie will appeare to be but a wittily contriued policy ingrossing prioritie wealth and worldly pleasures The third difference touching mans perfection in this morta●l life Rom. 7. 15. 18. 19. 21. Prov. 26. 12. Act. 17. 12. Heb. 12. 14. Math. 9. 12. Paul Rom. 7. 24. Dauids Psal. 119. 5. Psal. 130. 3. Math. 19. 26. Math. 7. 14. Iohn 3. 7. Rom. 8. ● The fourth difference about subiection to temporall sowers which they discl●i●e themselues and dispence with in others Rom. 13. 1. Isa. 1. 2● 1 Tim. ● ● t The bl●●s●d Tri●i●ie w●●h which the true

therefore that loues God must spare no paines to keepe her chast If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning my pulses beating my lungs breathing let his tongue cleaue to the roofe of his mouth who preferres not Ierusalem in him mirth that is the welfare of Christs flocke before all other ioyes in the world besides This glory of ours my brethren so David calls it and all other the instruments God hath lent vs of his glory and our husbandry if they be not kept in vse they will become vnserviceable shall be eaten vp with the rust Wee are called by God into his vineyard which if we dresse not with diligence prune uot with care and wisely vnderprop by our good example the Master will come pull vs out by the poles of our heads and put vs to tread the great wine-presse of the wrath of God Christ compared his Disciples to a cittie that is set on a hill we may also compare them to the hill or mount whereon the cittie stands 1. Montes are eminentiores terrae partes more seene and obiect to mans eye then plaines lower places so in that height of place wherein they were set to be seene of all more integritie and pietie was required then in the ordinarie ranke of professours 2. The grass springs purer more wholsome for pasture on those tops and heights of hills so the Lords flocke and sheepe of his pasture feed better and fat sooner by Pastors examples then by private persons Tum demum exempla probantur Quando rex aliis quod inbet ipse facit Thirdly the dewe and moisture which falls from heaven vpon Hermon descends from thence vpon the plaine of Bashan clothing her vallies so thicke with grasse that they laugh and sing so from those mountaines of Mir●h Incense drop and distill the dewe of heavenly doctrine godly consolation and saving grace such as causeth the Saints to reioyce for their glory to sing lowd vpon their beds This was prefigured in the law by the golden bell pomegranate placed about the skirts of Aarons robe The pomegranate signified the sweet savour of Christs death the golden bell the Gospell preached the ioint mixture of them both did intimate thus much that God would make manifest the savour of his knowledge the saving knowledge of his sonnes sufferings by his Aarons and preachers in every place Now what is the doctrine which Timothy must teach and take heed vnto for matter the truth of God without traditiō for measure fully keeping naught backe for manner in a holy boldnesse discreet roundnesse in loue with diligence applying himselfe to the hearers capacitie with desire of Gods glory and their good His words thus guided by knowledge backt by truth tempered with loue applyed with discretion and forced from a knowne watch over his owne waies shal be like apples of gold in pictures of silver like the words of the wise which are as goads nailes fastned by the Masters of the assemblies As goades they shall rowse them out of the sleepe of sinne as nailes fasten and ioyne them close to Christ their head Hee shall be vnto them the sweet savour of God vnto salvation they an acceptable sacrifice vnto Christ by his admonition But where is this truth found in the Turkes Alcoron or Popes Canon No but with him alone who saith of himself I am the way wherein walking we stray not the truth which imbracing we erre not and the life without which we die although we liue a spirituall death in a naturall life To this Christ all both Prophets and Apostles send vs as the welspring of life and Christ to the Scriptures search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me Where he is so far from impeaching that authoritie sufficiency which the Iews gaue vnto the Scriptures that he doth not only as it were countenance and covertly commend that their opinion but openly argue and reason therefrom Notwithstanding the Church of Rome doth not only wrest corrupt misconstrue contradict and disanull these Scriptures but teach for doctrines mens precepts Rome was sometimes a famous Church her faith was published throughout the whole world sed quantum mutatur ab illa How farre is she fallen from her first loue for her children haue committed two evills They haue forsaken the fountaine of living waters which refreshed the Saints hearts in their necessity with sound comfort and digged them pits that cā hold no water to comfort her now revolted brood withall S. Paul taught and Rome receaued it that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the law The Romanists maintaine a iustification by workes and a merit of the same without the faith which Paul meant 1 Against the professed and profound disputes of our Apostle there and elsewhere 2. Against the end of good workes supreame which is Gods glory 1. Cor. 1 21. subordinate being ordained for vs to walke in Eph. 2. 10. By walking therein to winne others 1. Cor. 7. 14 witnesse our faith I am 2. 18. Testifie our thankfulnesse Luk. 1. 74. 75. and settle vs in the assurance of our salvation 2. Pet. 1. 10. 3 Against the law and Prophets Moses proposing a reward of mercy not merit to them that loue God and keep his Commandements Exod. 20. 6. David deriving expresly all reward therefrom Psal. 62. 12. and pronouncing him a happy man to whom the Lord imputes righteousnesse without workes as one interprets who could neither mistake his meaning misconstrue his scope nor erre in right conference of the Scriptures Rom. 4. 6. 4 Against the tenor and title by which the state of salvation is firmely holden which is the adoption of sonnes no earned hire of mans service since the seed of the bond-woman cannot inherit with the free-borne Gal. 4. 30. 5 Against the light of reformed reason since wee afford 1. nothing vndue for he made vs and not we our selues yea and made vs againe both in our redemption and renovation Psal. 100. 2. Nothing proper he working in vs as subiects by vs as instruments both wil and worke Phil. 2. 13. 3. Nothing profitable for what can wee doe so well as to deserue of him to whom our weldoing doth not extend Psal. 16. 4. Nothing proportionable to Gods bountie whether we doe or suffer obey or beare for what is a light and momentary affliction to that glory which for first weight cannot bee countervailed by a world of woes 2 Cor. 4. 17. Secondly for eternitie admits neither abatemēt limit nor intermission Rom. 8. 18. Thirdly for excellency surpasseth all that eye hath seene eare hath heard or any heart of man can conceaue 1. Cor. 2. 9. Fourthly so farre as no speech can vtter because it is vnspeakable 6 Against the drift and