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A96416	Joshua's resolution; or the duties of houshold-governours discoursed of, and fairly stated; their failures therein mildly consider'd, and without favour or affection impartially weighed. The subject suited to the capacities of tamworth auditory, and preached there, and elsewhere, by John Wagstaffe, A.M. and rector of Little Wenlock, in Shropshire.	Wagstaffe, John, rector of Little Wenlock.	1684 (1684)	Wing W199B; ESTC R186141	18,928	34

lie in my power to set them at Christ's left and right hand if they would but unking Kingdoms and set the World it self in a combustion * Act. 17.6.6 and on a flame and then would have them with Pilate wash their hands in innocency * Mat. 27.24 wipe their mouths too and say What have they done that should so incense all Parties against them I would further strive to make them believe that they did God good service thereby * Joh. 16.2 that they should at last have a Coronation instead of meeting with a Damnation day * Rom. 13.2 If they would but like the Evil one in the Gospel * Mat. 13.24 25 28. sow Weeds and Tares in the Protestants Wheat not only in private Assemblies but in the Publick ones that are allowed by Authority and when they had done that to bundle them up Wheat and Chaff all of us together especially the most remarkable opposers as the most combustible matter fittest for the Papists Bonfire or to take that easy plausible way as to throw Bones of Contention amongst us and then glory in it * Phil. 3.18.19 which some I am afraid already have effectually done making us to bite tear devour one another * Gal. 5.14 without so much as putting to their helping hand and then such shall be said to do God good service thô they were immediately imploy'd in Satan's Drudgery Thus thus would I do were I to serve my self or the vain World thô not so bluntly as I have done it here for this was done designedly to let you see through the thin Vail that was drawn over a little to disguise varnish it dele ovee but remembring remembring that I am a Servant of the high God therefore as Heaven's Ambassador I bespeak you beseech you in his most glorious Name having to do with a better Pay-Master than such Bragadosia's or meer puffs of Wind can pretend to promise me or any other do roundly not mincingly tell you over again by way of general direction 3. In the last place If you do not repent you shall all likewise perish * Luke 13.3 It is not enough that you have Abraham * Matth. 3. Isaac and Jacob for your Father I mean no more by it than this thô you be born of Christian Parents and bear so honourable a Name of being Protestants and would continue so from one Generation to another yet that will not serve turn thô you be of the Church of England of Rome of Geneva or of the Brotherhood or of separate Congregations * Gal. 3. Col. 3. it will be no acceptable service at all * 1 Cor. 7.19 unless you do the injoyned Will of your Father in Heaven be Israelites without guile in deed and in truth And that you may be throughly known whatever Names you may go by 't is demanded from the Church-Party to see their Faith by their good works * Jam. 2. of all others to know the Tree by its Fruit * Matth. 7. this takes most thô both Scripture expressions and the sense partly the same the former to see their Principles by their Practices the latter to know their lives by their fruit bearing I mean by their upright honest conscientious living Therefore this is known for a great truth to be the Lords Livery wherever 't is worn throughout the parts of Europe Cease to do evil learn to do well * Isa 1.16 17. If you 'l be stil'd the Lord's Servants a great deal is coucht under those two short Sentences as to the particulars I refer you to what hath been already offered to you but if you would have it over again in other words look in the Prophet Micah * Mich. 6.8 What does the Lord require of you but to do Justice love Mercy and to walk humbly with thy God That is in short let Sobriety and Temperance be practised on your selves Righteousness and Justice to your Neighbour Piety and Godliness to your Maker and you will find * Luk. 13.13 that you are not then to be found in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness not in Strife and Envy c. but imitate the Lord Jesus as he hath already given us an Example I can only now touch on things and as it were dart Truths at random yet as you have it in the first Book of Samuel * 1 Sam. 17. a stone being slung by a contemptible Stripling what effect it had Now God's Spirit and your own Conscience levelling this and the other Truth that it may hit the white the mark sink down into the heart and kill a Goliah a Gigantick sin whatever you may tearm me for throwing my poor Mite into the Treasury and Corban of the Lord's Service * Mark 12. I 'le not go on in reparteeing as to call you uncircumcised Christians whilst I am upon serving England's living God but accost you with all the respect and tenderness that the Subject is able to bear I 'le treat you yea address my self to you not as you are the poor despicable Subjects of a great Prince but as if ye were so many Grandees and Monarchs of several little Worlds and Countrys which was the first Original of Families as you may see at large in the Old Testament every Head of a Family being a kind of a petty God or King and still in many respects you are so within your Precincts and Provinces within your own proper Stations and Boundaries within your own Dominions and Domestick Territories if you do not forfeit your right and title thereto by a false Religion by Rebellion Sacriledge or the like which is cry'd out against as much as the deadly sin of Sorcery or Witchcraft * 1 Sam. 15.23 Therefore 't is to you pious Parents and worthy Governours of your Families thô you have never so mean thoughts of your selves the more you are so for being humble meek lowly and submissive that my suit is in the behalf of the great Majesty not only of Earth but Heaven that you and your houses would resolve * In what manner Dr. Calamy has done 't you may see on that Text Rom. 3.8 pag. 28 29 30 31. 't is with that confession solemnity protestation nobleness of spirit that it deserves to be ingrav'd in Letters of Gold if it would but excite all others to take up the same Christian alike resolution in the behalf of God the Church the King the present Government the Country against either Popery or Fanaticism to serve the Lord There There there you are so many petty Kings to controul and command according to your own private will and pleasure and your dutiful Children are as so many little Princes about you and your trusty Servants are as so many Lords not Slaves attending on you Now is it not great pity that such a glorious Equipage heavenly Retinue should be badly imploy'd in Satans drudgery

in Heaven * Phil. 3.20 whilst I am boasting what the Lord hath done for my poor Soul * Psal 66.16 that I am not given up to my self to run with the vile world to all excess of Riot to be taken with the Vanities Fopperies Follys of an abused Age how he has rescued me as a Firebrand out of the Jaws of Death and Hell whilst I am instructing the Ignorant reclaiming the Extravagant and advising the Runagate and Prodigal in my Family to return I am serving the Lord whilst I am letting them know what pleasure I have in being truly Religious what secret Raptures ravishing Transports unknown Pastimes and Extasies of Joys I have in doing the will of my heavenly Father it is such a pious Feast and delightful Banquet that the greatest Epicurean knows not of * Luke 14. That I would not be hired off by the wealth of the Indies though a large bribe to do as I have Done or to be as vain simple and foolish as the world to be as earthly sensual and Devilish as they that are in it * Jam. 3.15 I am serving rhe Lord while visiting the Widdow and Fatherless relieving and comforting of them * Jam. 1.27 whilst reaching out mine hand and administring to the necessities of the weak sick and needy whether in Soul or body Whilst I am Sympathizing and strongly phancying my self in their deplorable circumstances and then calling to mind my own happy Condition I cannot chuse but be chearful Bless and Adore my God it is not so with me whilst I am setting my hand to the Plow or to the Needle * Prov. 31. Doing good Offices at home for them Catering for my self the family any body towards clothing the naked feeding the hungry nay giving but a Cup of cold water to the thirsty a poor business yet sufficient If I have no better * Mat. 10.42 Now no Divine or humane Law with us that I know of forbids or restrains any of us from doing any of these things And lastly to instance in no more whilst I am giving a good Example to all that are round about me that either converse with me know me or hear of me and do as I would be done by * Luke 16. Luke 17.10 and when I have done all * Col. 3.11 as if I had done nothing at all to look for salvation through the Merits onely and Intercession of a mighty Saviour and the blessed Spirit and not by my own worthless works and services I am more truly serving my God and doing what he requires of me then were I with my weak hands with my feeble power upholding a tottering Ark * 2 Sam. 6.6 7. though honestly meant poor Vzzah's life dearly paid for it or more plainly thus were I with my shoulders supporting a reeling Church unless extraordinarily called thereto which if otherwise 't is to suspect or Distrust the Lords Ability and that the Almighty God has need of our poor help But more particularly whilst I am Doing the aforenamed things I am as sincerely serving and honouring my God and doing that which is as well pleasing to him as if I was hearing a Well composed Sermon that did hit my humour in every punctillio or as if I was in my study or closet reading a good book or upon my bended knees Devoutly praying or privately keeping a voluntary Fast thô these are excellent things in their places and must by no means be neglected I Repeat it that I may not be mistaken thôugh these are excellent things in their places and must by no means be wholly neglected and will not be by any Godly Person yet truly the others are the main ones that must be done remembring too that these may not be left undone * Mat. 23.23 for if Comparison are not too distastful may but be admitted of The very Life and Soul the visible Effects and blessed fruits the very juice and quintescence of all these as of Praying Reading Hearing Fasting and the like are the former As it is notably confirm'd in Isaiahs prophesy ch 58. at large from one end to the other and let this one place suffice for many because it takes in all others But now to encourage you in so noble a service as Serving the Lord that is an easy service first * Mat. 11.30 Not onely easy but secondly pleasant * Prov. 3.17 And 3. Not onely pleasant * 1 Tim. 4.8 but profitable And lastly Not only profitable but honourable * 1 Sam. 2.30 What would any of us desire more in any service They are such special Ingredients and taking qualifications that would highly recommend to us any Course of life besides And now what strange ill humour'd Creatures are we that are so averse and obstinately bent against our own Interest here and happiness hereafter But to come to the other thing that was promised Application surely 't is now needless yet for the sake of the meanest I 'll make bold with the quickest of Apprehension as formally to tell you the first use will be of Exhortation the next a mild way of reprehension little exprest but a great deal to be understood and the last a general and particular Direction or two First To begin with the use of Exhortation to exhort us to the service of God whether of Paul Apollo or Cephas or Christ for I conjecture all these kinds and perhaps many more that make up this flourishing Congregation I do not now call you to answer to those unhappy unchristian-like names that you have branded each other withall and as if you delighted in what you have done taking a kind of a secret vaunting pride in being so termed paying it off in thinking and forecasting what you will do * Jam. 4. But whatever your private sentiments may be of the transactions of the world let me prevail with you in this one thing 't is no unreasonable request at all for then I should not Expect to speed * 1 Pet. 3. that we all unanimously agree in this to serve the Lord to serve the Lord And in that way too which he himself hath appointed yea in those very things which I have instanced in before As for imposing or so much as glancing on mens Consciences they are such nice delicate compositions that they must be gently touched very tenderly dealt withal 't is done to my Hands by a more Able Pen called a Discourse on a scrupulous conscience Therefore to wave that By my worthy Tutor Dr. Callamy My Design is only to strike at Mens sinful Actions and practices and I pray you so forward and encourage me in so good a work sa to bring home the blow If you will not for Gods sake for the Churches for the Kings nor for the Kingdoms nor for Christs sake nor for your poor immortal Souls sake yet out of interest and advantage for by sinister ends serve the Lord.