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A97360	The works of the judicious and learned divine Dr. Thomas Taylor, part 1. sometimes preacher of Aldermanbury, London. Published by himself in his life time, in several smaller volumes, now collected together into three volumes in fol. two of which are here bound together. The first volume containing, I. An exposition on the 32. Psalm ... The second volume containing, I. An exposition of the parable of the sower and seed, on Luk. 8. ... The third volume is in the press, and will containe in it, I. The progress of sts, to full holinesse ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1659 (1659)	Wing T560A	683,147	498

savour Christ needed not to have ascended to send men without gifts hee sendeth no Messenger without a message no Steward without his provision no Captain without weapons no Watchmen without eyes this were a folly which the wisdome and weakness of man cannot brook but hee sendeth an interpreter the Learned tongue the prompt Scribe in the Law of the Lord such as are mighty in the Scriptures and are stored with things new and old Let us not implead the wisdome of the Son of God and say where shall wee have such store of Preachers for our several Parishes If wee want them the fault is our own and not Gods who hath given means men and maintenance enough if all these were wisely and thankfully disposed to his glory and the service of the Church 3 This Doctrin must bee applyed also to the more ignorant sort of men who never as yet came to see the absolute necessity of this Ordinance of Preaching as witn●ss 1 Their formal comming hereunto as forced by Law ●ow men see this necessity of preaching or constrained by custome and thence departing again without any fruit of Faith or increase either of knowledge of obedience or of comfort 2 The inbred corruption yea and malice of their hearts against it which bewrayeth it self in a number of frivolous Objections which they shame not to bolt out among their mates As that this preaching of the Gospel is but foolishness they see other have lived honestly and well without it before them and so have themselves done for many years and yet they live as well as those that are the forwardest to run after Sermons Alas poor souls how hath Satan over-reached them in a matter of such moment as is their whole estate and freehold of Heaven who if ever they come to see their lost estate and what a woful condition they stand in for the present they will tell us another tale with shame in their faces for that they have said they will profess the Ministry of Reconciliation to bee as necessary as their attonement and friendship with God which is better and sweeter than life it self Others conceive and complain as the Israelites Many pl●●● against it that there is too much Preaching and too much of this Mannah and some of better place but no better hearts avouch that it is so common that it grows into contempt Now would I ask of these was it the abundance of Mannah the Angels food that was the fault or their wicked loathing of it even so is it the commonness of the word that maketh the wicked contemn it for the hungry soul of the godly would never dispise it if it were ten times more common or rather because they see not the worth nor taste the sweetness of it des●●s● wee the Sun because it riseth daily and shineth all the day long upo● 〈◊〉 or the air which wee breath in every moment or doth the ordinary and common use of the bread upon our Tables bring bread out of request with us No wee see the necessity that without the Sun and without our daily bread and without the air wee cannot live And did wee see also as clearly that where vision faileth people perish wee should change with our minds our note and highly bless God for the commonness of it as we do in the other and sure I am that either the Apostle Paul did not fear this inconvenience or else hee oversaw it when he enjoyned the Ministers to Preach instantly both in season and out of season Others say the world was better when there was lesse Preaching and thence conclude that it is far worse now because there is more which though it bee a rude fallacy scarce worthy answer as putting that to bee a cause of mens wickedness which is not yet something must bee said unto it and fools must bee answered in their folly lest they bee wise in their own conceit Let these men bethink themselves and then tell us whether the Holy Gospel being the power and arm of God to save every beleever the glad tydings of salvation and word of life can make the World worse than it is For if that bee the use of it our blessed Saviour was far overseen to leave his glory of Heaven to take our flesh and in it to submit himself to the obedience of the whole Law and to the suffering of the whole curse of it for our disobedience if by all this hee leave the World or make the World worse than he found it How shall it bee true that is written of him that the Son of Man came not to destroy but to seek and save that which was lost if the Preaching of him make the World worse than it was wee will easily grant that the Gospel being a great sight it daily discovereth that corruption and darkness which before lay hid as the Sun rising manifesteth all those things which were wrapped up in the darkness of the night But to say that sin is the more because it is more seen by the light of the Gospel is a fancy or if sin it self in these daies of the Gospel by the multiplication of people bee multiplyed shall wee say the Gospel is the cause or rather the malice of men who pervert it to their own destruction taking occasion by it to turn the grace of God into wantonness Let not ●s therefore bee as the old Idolaters in Jeremies time who told him plainly that they would not hear the Word that hee spake in the name of the Lord for while they served the Queen of Heaven they had plenty of victuals and were well and felt none evil but since they left to burn incense unto her it was never well with them they had scarceness of all things and were consumed by the Sword and by Famine Jer. 44.17 18. and therefore they were resolved to do as their Fathers did But let us with thankfulness cast our eies upon the Grace of God that hath appeared and learn as it teacheth to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Many other allegations of simple people against this ordinance I might alleadge but they are well met withall by some others and my self have elsewhere answered many of them Beauties of Bethel and therefore referring the Reader thither I content my self with these few for the present and conclude this point with this exhortation to these poor seduced people that considering the straight charge and Commandement that lyeth upon us to Preach in season and out of season they would bee willing to pick out their duty therein implyed which is to bee diligent yea swift to hear to attend as earnest suters at the gates of Wisdome for their own good to lay up instruction as they would treasure gold and to call after the wisdome of God revealed in this ordinance without which never was any made wise to salvation And let them further know that

our own justification out of the deep with David yea out of the Whales belly with Jonah and in darkness with Job to see light 2 To see things invisible to make things absent present yea God absent present and to set him continually at the right hand Moses feared not the wrath of the King because he saw him that was invisible Heb. 11.17 Elisha being in Dothan feared nothing when his servant cryed out because his eyes were open to see the Angels as fiery Chariots protecting him 3 Faith is never so working as in perillous times because then there is most need most use of it then it sets it self a work and mingles it self with the promises of God by which it quickens and puts life unto a man when he is half dead as Psal 119.49 Remember thy promise wherein thou hast caused me to trust it is my comfort in trouble for thy promise hath quickned me Now it bestirres it self to make Gods faithfulness and truth his shield and buckler Notable is that example of the three Children Dan. 3.16 17. who were in present danger of their lives and cast into an hot Furnace In this danger now their faith bestirres it to provide for their safety not by any yeelding or blanching or buckling to the unjust command but by furnishing their mouthes with a resolute answer Be it known unto thee O King that wee will not worship this Image and by preparing their hearts through their confidence in God who was able to deliver them rather to yeeld themselves to the fire and raging flames than to any part of that commandement And were faith and Gods fear working in the heart it would destroy false fears and infidelity which Satan prevaileth in mightily causing men to seek help by unlawful means if the lawful bee never so little set out of sight Command these stones to be made bread Here is an inference upon the former words If thou be the Son of God upon a true ground Satan raiseth a dangerous consequence Christ was the Son of God true Must he therefore needs make stones bread Satan inferteth mischievous conclusions upon true premises Doct. It is an ordinary temptation of the Devil to inferre mischievous conclusions upon true premises God had no respect to Cains Sacrifice as to Abels Whereas now Cain should have offered of the best as Abel did and have brought faith with his offering by which Abel offered a better Sacrifice Heb. 11.4 Satan inferres upon it Therefore kill thy brother Saul received no answer of God that was true but that therefore he should goe to the Witch of Endor was Satans inference both against the Law of God and Sauls own law God is a merciful God a true premise and the scope of all the Scripture but that Jonah should therefore fly to Tarshish and not goe to preach the destruction of Ninivie was a Satanical inference A man must pity himself and doe what he can to repel evil from him and avoyd danger but that Christ should therefore not goe up to Jerusalem to suffer was a dangerous consequence of Satan in Peters mouth whom therefore Christ calleth Satan Reasons 1 Satan is cunning and seeketh by mingling good and evil truth and falshood to justifie that which is false and to draw it on with the truth If hee should never speak truth he could never deceive half so much therefore hee speaks many truthes to give credit to his lyes and the same hee hath taught all his agents Do we think that a false teacher or heretick could doe any great hurt if he should not lay his leaven in a lump of truth would not every man at first reject him if he should bring never a true doctrin but therefore that his heresie may spread like a gangrene he comes with a fair pretence of many truthes which cannot be denied Doe wee think that the Church of Rome should have so prevailed in the world or that Antichristian state should have been endured or could any Papist bee suffered in ours or any well-ordered Country if they did not colour all their abominations and false religion with some general truths if they should not in word and shew hold and recite the Articles of faith and principles of our religion concerning God in unity of essence and trinity of persons concerning Christ the Church c. were it possible that any Christian state could bear them while indeed and in truth they reverse the whole foundation of religion and are limbs of Antichrist No their deceit is a mystery and walks in darkness and the mask and vizards of truth with pretence of holiness hath held the Swords of Princes from them which else had long since been sanctified in their overthrow 2 Satan can doe no other who cannot speak truth for truths sake for being a Lyar from the beginning he loves not truth and therefore if hee speak truth it is to corrupt the truth or to stablish some lye Lying is the Devils mother tongue Joh. 8. 1 Sam. 28.17 18. Lying the Devils mother tongue Satan in the habit of Samuel spake many truths as that the Lord had rent the Kingdom from him and given it to David because he had so spoken hee would doe it and because Saul obeyed not the voyce of the Lord nor executed his fierce wrath against the Amalekites and that the Lord would deliver him and the Israelites into the hand of the Philistims the next day c. But all this was to feed Saul in his delusion and hold him in his sin as though he were Samuel as vers 17. the Lord hath done it even as he spake by mine hand and vers 19. to morrow shalt thou be with me c. So in the New Testament we have the Devils confessing Christ to be the Son of God the Holy One the sum of the Gospel and Paul and Silas to be the servants of the high God Act. 16. but both Christ and his servants put them to silence and would not have them to speak the truth because it was to deprave and slander the whole truth as though Christ and his servants had been in league and agreement with the Devils and so their doctrin had been not Divine but Diabolical Thus Satan like a Bargeman looks one way but ●owes another 3 Satan sees how our nature is easily carried away through a general shew of good or truth to take in with it error and falshood hand over head without trial or discerning For though our blessed Saviour would not confound stones and bread yet we easily take stones with bread and Serpents with Fishes The whole Masse-book is but an heap of Idolatrous prayers and Ceremonies but yet because there is some shew of good in it many Scriptures and some tolerable and good prayers with many devotions it is wholly received without trial of millions given over to delusion 4 Satan the Prince of darkness can transform himself into an Angel of light 2 Cor. 11.14 and

the false Prophets will be confident that the truth is with them Zedekiah will oppose Micaiah and Hanani will smite Jeremy and make yokes against the King of Babels yoke Jer. 28.11 The Donatists in Africa cryed out that the sound Christians were Traytors to the holy Books and themselves the defenders of them The Papists at this day cry out with Dioscorus the heretick I defend the opinions of the Fathers and their whole doctrin is condemned with mine Vse 1. Let us learn to be wise and try before we trust not taking all things in gross but first examining and proving them False-hood carries often a shew of truth and truth often covers false-hood no vice appeareth in his proper colour but under the likeness of some vertue The Romish VVhore of Babylon offereth not her wine of Fornications in the bark of some poysoned plant or shell of some poysonful or venemous Creature but hath conveyed them all into a cup of glistering gold Revel 17.4 and this hath entised the great ones of the earth who gazed at the glister of the golden boul but never looked what was in it the glorious stile of Catholike Church Vicar of Christ Peters successor hath deceived such as liked not to try before they did trust and so hath universality antiquity fathers consent and the like Eve should have examined the words of the Serpent and Adam the gift of his Wife and then neither of them had been deceived The builders of Babel had they examined the motion before they had made onset had avoyded that confusion Abraham should have tried the counsel of Sarah before he had taken her Maid into his bosome This examination and trial by the touch-stone of the Word will shew the inconsequence of such dangerous conclusions How lamentably are many great wits and gifts given over in Popish Countries for want of this sound trial taking their religion by tradition offering to the shrines of their fore-fathers that often they can spend their goods and lives for it as though it were the only truth Vse 2. Let us labour to avoyd these common darts these falsly concluded conclusions which Satan seeks to have us assent unto It is a great subtilty of the Devil by which he overthrows many and must the more circumspectly be watched against See some instances of this his Stratagem in matters of faith and of practice False conclusions in matters of faith I. In matters of faith 1 In the Scripture it is a frequent ground that God is merciful true therefore saith Satan be bold in sin and deferre thy repentance thou maist repent when thou list Here is a wicked inference indeed for there is mercy with God that he may bee feared and Knowest thou not that the long suffering of the Lord should lead thee to repentance 2 It is a true ground that Christ dyed and that for all i. e. elect and beleevers But Satan saith Therefore what needest thou care why shouldest thou be so precise Is not Christ a sufficient pay-master Yes but he paied for none but for those that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. vers 1. 3 It is a true ground that a man must provide for himself and his family or else he is worse than an infidel Hence Satan collects Thou mayest bee covetous thou mayest scrape and scratch together any thing an Infidel is the worst in the world and so he perswades a man that all is fish which comes to net and any wind good that brings gain with it False conclusions on true grounds in matters of practice II. In matters of practice many ways 1 Thou art the Son of God then make these stones bread thou mayest be a little bolder than other God will not be so angry with thee Here see a plain Satanical inference For the child of God must honour his Father Mal. 1.6 and fear to offend him If I by profession draw near unto God I must the more sanctifie my self and grace my profession 2 If thou beest a man a gentleman a man of valour doe not put up this wrong but revenge this quarrel else every one will point at thee for a dastard Here is another devillish conclusion for a man must not step into the place of God who saith Vengeance is mine and I will repay and a Gentleman must bee of gentle behaviour not savage fierce and cruel a man of valour must pass by offences It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence Prov. 16.32 3 If thou beest an honest fellow drink sit bare upon the ground and pledge so much to such and such a friend drink a health to that and the other boon companion But the inference is like the former it warres with honesty and civility to drink and swill till health be drowned and reason banished and the party sorted with the brute beasts 4 If thou beest a good Catholike a true Romanist defie these Hereticks dye for the Romish religion but before thou dyest kill thy Prince cut the throat of thy countrey blow up the Parliament-House so shalt thou bee a Martyr presently But a true Catholike cannot bee a limb of Antichrist cannot bee a Traytor cannot bee the Devils martyr though a false Catholike a false-hearted Romanist may bee a fox a Fa●● an incendiary a Clement a Ravilliac a Catholike villain or universal mischief 5. But thou art now in danger therefore now deny thy profession forswear thy Religion abjure Christ at least cast one grain into the fire at the Emperours Commandement Here is another devillish conclusion upon a true premise for God bids mee in danger draw near unto him and not renounce him or go further from him Christ did not by any evil means avoid danger for mee and hee hath said hee will deny him before men and Angels that shall deny him in this world And the further from God the nearer to danger 6 Thou art a man of learning and in a populous place why shew thy learning sometimes and preach above the peoples capacity thou canst speak tongues do so and study to bee more eloquent Here is Satans Sophistry and learning upon the learned the ground is often true the inference false and dangerous the Apostle Paul was a man of learning and in a populous place at Corinth but hee thought nothing worthy to be known but Christ and him crucified neither stood his Preaching in the enticing speech of mans wisdome but in plain evidence of the Spirit and in power and that for good reason 1 Cor. 2.2 6. And can I think that Satan hath any care of edifying my people 7 Thou art a man of knowledge and understanding why dost thou hear sermons so diligently seeing thou knowest enough yea as much as the Preacher can tell thee A wicked inference of the Prince of darknesse for true knowledge empties the heart of pride and presumption and the more I know the more I had need bee stirred up to practice that my

understand not the goodly Workmanship of God in the frame of the Heavens and Earth which wee must love and admire but all the Riches Honours Pleasures Profits and Allurements of it without God or before God as when men are willing Servants and Slaves to Worldly Desires and Corruptions 1 Tim. 6.10 The desire of money is the root of all evil a fruitful mother of much mischief There is no sin so impious so unnatural and barbarous that a man in love with the Profits of the World will stick at And more plainly vers 9. They that will bee rich fall into manifold Temptations and Snares and into many foolish and noysome lusts which drown men in perdition and destruction which in sense is all one with this That such a one makes himself a willing spoil and prey to the Devil Hence they are called deceitful Riches because they easily lead us out of the right way Matth. 13.22 and Job 18.8 The wicked walks upon snares and the grin shall take his heel Reasons 1 The love of the World banisheth the love of God out of the Soul Hee that is a lover of the World is an hater of God Jam. 4.4 Know yee not that the amity of the World is enmity to God Whosoever therefore will bee a friend of the World maketh himself an enemy to God now what sin will an enemy of God stick at And the Apostle John plainly divorceth these two which can never agree in one 1 Joh. 2.15 If any man love the World the love of the Father is not in him And if the love of God ●way not the heart Satan will easily incline it to any sin 2 Where there is the love of the World that heart hath already renounced God in Heaven and given it self to bee possessed ruled and commanded by the God of the World For look what a man chiefly loves hee not so much possesseth it as is possesseth by it Whence the Apostle is not afraid to call Covetousness Idolatry Eph. 5.5 and Coloss 3.5 not onely because the chief love but the chief trust hope and confidence goeth with them They say to the wedge of gold thou art my hope And further as the Heathen Idolaters worshipped and served gods of Gold and Silver so these serve and obey their golden and silver god wherein they take up their chief desires and contentment Now having denyed the God of Heaven and thrust himself out of his protection a man becomes to be in the power of the Devil and ruled at his will 3 The love of the World spoiles us of our armour and strength by which wee should bee fenced from Satans subtleties For 1 Whereas our chief fence is in Gods Word it First intercepteth the Word and estrangeth the heart from it as Ezek. 33.31 They sit before thee and hear thy words but their hearts go after their covetousnesse Secondly it choaketh the Word that it becomes as seed cast among Thorns which choak it presently Thirdly it scorns the Word as may appear Luke 16.14 These things heard the Pharisees which were Covetous and mocked Now is not such an one easily snared by the Devil who is thus dis-affected to Gods Word Is not hee easily bound that wants yea scorns his weapons 2 The love of the World whether the Pleasures Profits or Glory of it as a Theef steals and robs our graces which are another chief part of our strength Good Hezekiah a little tickled with vain-glory made himself and his Land a prey and spoil to the Enemy Wise Solomon loved too much the unlawful pleasures of the World and how did it rob him of his Wisdome The Disciples while yet Christ was with them were stirred with love and debate for superiority and greatness which did much hinder them and took up their thoughts when they might have attended to better things How many for love of the World and Preferment fall from their first love abate their zeal become cold and indifferent as the times are 4 The love of the World where it is rooted delivers a man so far into the hands of Satan as hee easily falls from all shew of goodness and dangerously revolts from all the goodness that seemed to bee in him The young man that came to Christ with many good shews and desires hearing of selling all and giving to the poor goeth away heavily and wee hear no more of him Demas once a Companion of Paul but easily forsook the truth when hee embraced the present World Judas an Example almost without example a Disciple at Christs elbow indued with excellent gifts Apostolical of Doctrin of Miracles c. having his heart glewed to the World for a trifle fell from his place from all the affection hee had sembled to his Master from the society of his fellow Disciples and stood with them that betrayed him 5 Experience shews how when Satan hath thrust the love of the World into a mans heart hee hath power enough 1 To binde that mans hands from the works of Piety and Mercy Hee is a bad Tenant the more land he holds the less homage hee doth unto God And as for works of Mercy hee will not part with his crums like the rich man in the Gospel And as hee lives altogether unprofitable to others so to himself hee hath no care of his salvation Thou fool This night shall they take away thy soul 2 As hee hath no power to do any good for God or man so he will suffer nothing A man loving the World flies affliction for Christ Matth. 13.21 when the Sun riseth hee withers when persecution comes hee is offended and falls away to the hinderance of many They that minde earthly things are enemies to the cross of Christ Phil. 3.19 Vse 1. Oh therefore Love not the World nor the things in the World 1 Joh. 2.15 A necessary exhortation to us to whom it is as natural to love the World as for water to run down a Hill And who can hardly affect it without being infected with it Hereunto lay hold on these motives 1 Consider how hard it is to love God and the World too even as hard as to look with the same eye saith Augustine up to Heaven and down to the Earth at the same time The more love a Woman bestows upon a stranger the less shee loves her Husband whence S. James is bold to call worldlings Adulterers and Adulteresses chap. 4.4 whom the Lord will not indure to dally and sport Eph. 2.3 and go a whoring after the World Yee cannot serve God and Mammon 2 Consider that a course lead in lusts is fitter for the Gentiles than those that profess the teaching of Grace Tit. 2.11 For the grace which hath appeared teacheth us to deny worldly lusts Our relation to Christ of whom wee are called Christians must draw our affections out of the World for 1 He hath chosen us out of the World so that now hee professeth of us They are not of the World Job 15.19 2

in their worship and yet if our righteousness exceed not theirs wee can never enter into the Kingdome of heaven Mat. 5.20 3 The righteousness of God goes beyond all civil and outward righteousness it is inward in Spirit and truth It cuts off not onely outward acts of Murder Uncleanness Theft c. but inward motions of Hatred Wantonness Covetousness It strikes at roots and branches and hates the least and secretest evil which civil righteousness makes no bones of Object 2. But this circumspect and strict walking is taken up but by a few and those of the meanest some men of great wisdome place and learning favour it not but scorn and oppose it Answ 1. Christianity was ever hated by the most of the world because of the Cross the Church is black because the Sun looks on her Cant. 1.5 but comely to God and his Angels and this makes few enter that way 2 The Apostle directly meets with this Objection 1 Cor. 1.27 Not many mighty not many noble not many wise but God hath chosen a few poor people Zeph. 3.11 and they shall call upon his Name And why not many of those Because they cannot so easily deny themselves and this evil world which they must do that will bee saved 3 Let us not wholly cast our eyes upon the examples of the world now declining and at last so at worst but upon such as formerly have been set as eye-marks in the Scripture and wee shall finde some both great and noble and learned going before us in strict and circumspect walking The holy Patriarchs Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob godly and zealous Kings David Solomon Josiah the holy Apostles who endeavoured alwayes to have a clear conscience before God and all men Act. 24.16 Yea the most wise noble and learned that ever was the Son of God whose conversation was such as none could accuse him of sin These are the cloud of witnesses which wee must follow in running the race set before us Heb. 12.1 Object 3. But what an impossible Commandement is this and who can bear it Can wee bee Saints in this world thus to order our selves in every thing Wee are sinners and must bee sinners and cannot bee thus strict as you require Wee hope we generally mean well and God wee hope will supply the rest Answ 1. The scope of this plea is to give over all because they cannot attain all which is but a false fire by which the Devil discourageth many from the narrow way and the narrow looking to their own way For true it is that wee call with the Scripture for a keeping of all Gods Commandements alwayes and to live with God and walk with him but with Evangelical interpretation which accepteth the will desire and endeavour to walk with God in every thing which cannot but in some measure bee found in a true beleever and cannot but in Christ bee accepted where it is true and hearty Thus the Scriptures interpret themselves 1 Chron. 28.7 If Solomon shall endeavour to keep my Commandments c. Hos 6.3 We shall endeavour to know the Lord. What can God accept less or a good heart tender less than hearty wishes where strength is wanting to please God in all things 2 Let us by the strictness of the Commandement consider whence wee are fallen and see our impotency and confess our failings but not therefore allow our selves in any evil or venture on any sin which we might by this Circumsspection avoid or remit our endeavour in respect of all Gods Commandements 3 For such as think it sufficient to mean well in general Consider this that as no Master is pleased if his steward bring him in a general Bill of great summes spent wherein hee may hide much deceit but sets down no dayes accounts or weeks bills of parcels no more in the matter of heavenly treasure is it enough to hide himself in general good meanings but in every particular to avoid deceit and suspicion of it And as it is with a Traveller in an unknown way who will not go at random nor count it a sufficient direction to bee set Eastward or Westward but hee will ask every man of every Town and take good heed of every mark to pass him from one place to another so in this our passage to heaven wee must keep our special directions and walk with God in every thing if wee will happily pass unto heaven Object 4. But what need such daily and continual troubling of our selves What was the Sabbath made for but for Gods service and wee keep our Church as well as any but for the week-dayes wee have Callings to follow and cannot intend such things and it were better if some of these nice fellows were more diligent in their Calling as wee be● Answ 1. Seeing the Rule by which wee must walk is to serve God i● holiness and righteousness all our dayes Luke 1.75 wee have no liberty to part the week between God and us Neither must wee put on holiness as an holy-day garment to put it off at night neither may wee bee less holy on other dayes than on the Sabbath howsoever wee must exercise our holiness in the publick worship of God on that day and in the private worship and in the p●rsonal Callings on the other dayes 2 Hee is a good Christian that keeps a perpetual Sabbath and is not onely one on the Sabbath day The trial of soundness is at home Psal ●01 2 in the midst of a mans house and not at Church where the Phariseee is often above the Publican 3 Thou hast a Calling on the week-day in which thou must sweat and abide who ever thou art but thou must not so play the good husband as to become a worldling Vse the world as not using it 1 Cor 7 31. as not affecting it and acknowledge thy special and personal Calling to bee subordinate to the general for in the whole exercise of thy special Calling thou must shew forth thy knowledge and religious keeping of a good conscience once divorce these two and never look for success on thy labours Object 5. But this is fitter for Ministers and cloystered persons who have given themselves to continual devotion than for ordinary and common men who are not acquainted with such novelties Answ 1. If all Christians bee alike subject to sin all have need to bee continually alike fenced against it If all have the same enemies all had need stand upon their ground If one mans heart bee as wicked as anothers every man had need set a watch round about himself And if any have more need than other it is unlearned and simple persons who want such means of helping themselves as learned Preachers have 2 As for the novelty of this Circumspect course wee must needs say it is so to such as are of Festus his suit who thinks Paul learned even to madness to call him to such strictness or Gallio his Disciples Act. 18. who