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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72485	The tell-troth's reqvitall, or, Truth's recompence as it was preached the 12th day of November, 1626, at Eckington: wherein are contained these three propositions, (vindicating Paul from the aspersion of enmity, and laying it on the Galatians,) viz. 1 No grace of God in man can secure him from the enmity of the unregenerate. 2 Sometimes a ministers owne hearers are set in variance against him. 3 The publication of the truth is the cause of this variance. By Samuel Kenrick student in divinity, and preacher of Gods word in the same place.	Kenrick, Samuel, b. 1602 or 3.	1627 (1627)	STC 14933; ESTC S123195	28,422	39

up the head to this height that a Minister should spend his time in study night day break many a quiet sleep to break that pure word aright unto his people poure out many a bleeding complaint unto his God for their obstinacy rebellion labor with might main tearing his sides early and late for their conversion yet for all his pains be counted an Enemy that of his owne hearers ſ Intolerabile fit malum cuius autorem turpe sit confiteri Sen. Probation A griefe surely intollerable to a Preacher since it is a shame to an hearer But so it fared with Christ himselfe that great Doctor of the Church though he spake as never yet man spake yet hee was hated of his owne hearers his owne country-men yea of Iudas too his owne Disciple and for a determinate proofe see Matt. 10.36 A mans enemies shall be those of his owne house Iobs owne wife against him Absolon seekes his owne fathers overthrow Ismael mockes his owne brother what wonder then if a Ministers owne hearers oppose themselves against him For was not God himselfe so used at his owne childrens hands Arg. 1. Esay 1.2 Did not he nourish them as his owne t Hosea 11.4 did not he draw them with the bands of love did not his u Ier. 31.20 bowells yerne over them were not his * Hos 11.6 repentings kindled together for their sakes Did he not x Amos 3.2 know them above all the nations of the earth Yet see now have they rebelled against him What marvell then though Paul be hated as an enemy and Ministers counted the y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 4.9 dregs and off scowring of men what though they be made the Brothers of Owles and companions of Ostriches in the desart A satten suit becomes not the servant when the master must goe in canvas wee must not thinke to live in this life in any other state then Christ himselfe our Lord and Master And t is fit that good Ministers should have their patience and constancy to be proved by such indignities Argument 2. Patience is best seene when an affliction fights most closely with the affection David could say if it had beene an open enemy I could have borne it but it was thou my familiar friend c. yet God will have his patience so tried by setting his owne friends against him So much the rather also Arg. 3. because God will not have his Children and chiefly his Ministers to bee too well conceited of their owne gifts and graces Vaine glory and spirituall pride creepes in with an aspiring facility and is not easily z Vana gloria est ultima Pellis quae exuitur Bern. shaken out If we should heare our Auditors cry out of our Sermons in the language of Herods Parasites The voice of God and not of man we might happely be tickled in the eares and so fall into a spirituall whimsey wherefore lest happely David should cry out in the vanity of his heart Tush I shall never be moved the Lord sets his own familiar friends against him and then he cryed out It is good for me that I have beene afflicted So lest Paul through the large knowledge of words unutterable should have beene exalted above measure he received a pricke in the flesh and see now his owne hearers are set in variance against him But he knowes it to bee as great a priviledge a Agere pati fortia Phil. 2.29 Arg. 4. to suffer as beleeve Lastly a Ministers owne hearers are set in variance against him that b Vt lapsu graviore ruant Mat. 23.32 Jngratum si dicas omnia di●i● they might brand themselves out for persecutors of the Truth and so fill up the measure of their sinnes The persecution of the Truth is the Epitome or Abridgement of all other sinnes for t is ingratitude in an high degree Give me a persecutor of the Truth and give mee a complete sinner We reade of but two that ever were recovered as far as I remember Manasses and Paul Therefore I had rather see a man I thinke I may speake with a safe conscience commit any other sinne then persecute the Truth for this sinne ever comes nearest unto the sinne against the Holy Ghost if it be not the same and indeed when it is not alwayes wholly the same yet it is ever a c Alsted in Lexico branch of it and by this doe wicked men marke out themselves for rebells yea for the destruction to come So for these ends call them arguments if you will does God suffer his Ministers in the meane space to be opposed But in this meane space Paul Applicat 1. and many of us Pulpit-men may take up the complaining lamentation of the Prophet David d Psal 120.5 6. Woe is me that I sojourne in Mesech and dwell in the Tents of Kedar my soule hath long dwelt with those that hate peace And we may justly take up his Motto too I am for peace yet whiles we speake they are for warre and they even our owne hearers account us enemies for telling the truth But see and heare O heavens and hearken O earth stand amazed O heavens and be dumbe O earth yea bee abashed at this ye sonnes of men that the glory of the Almighty should bee turned into obloquy and the Israel of God should lay an aspersion of enmity upon her owne Apostles But what does the enmity of familiars suggest such a wonder or exasperate the griefe why then why wander I in so generall or circular an application as to goe to Israel or Galatia for an instance Come my brethren from your e Nocturnus iuvat impallescere chartis nightly studies and see our Land divided against it selfe see it hating and despising government see it spurning against her owne f Per iram concordia rumpitur per iram lux veritatis amittitur Greg. lib. 3. moral light what if I say against our owne eyes The g Heb. 2.3 great salvation is now proclaimed but we love the workes of death The Sunne of the Gospell the word of truth is now risen h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. upon us all but wee love darknesse more then light Some Travellers have laid this imputation of obscurity upon our Land our England that the heaven above us is ever i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lowring and the Sunne a stranger to our eyes and the reason thereof Because we are encompassed with the Sea from whence there is a daily Exhalation of clouds interposing themselves in our Horizon betweene the light of the Sun and our sight Now God grant that their Geography bee without a mystery I seare lest our light of the Gospell be obfuscated with the assiduous clouds of enmity arising from the sea of anger We must needs confesse that as the Sun so the Gospell is k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉