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father_n	holy_a	know_v	son_n	20,890	5	5.9615	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67768	The proofe of a good preacher the right art of hearing : that good counsel is seldom well taken : that wilful offenders are as witlesse as wicked : with an apologie for wholesome truth, how distasteful soever / by J.F.	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y180; ESTC R8002	18,965	45

shew He that despiseth you despiseth me 1 Sam. 17.45 Isa ●7 23 Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Acts 9.4 Revel 16.9 11. Psal 89.23 To spurn at the Messenger is to strike at the image of God whose message it is What saith Paul 1 Cor. 7.10 I have not spoken but the Lord and therefore as the Lord said unto Saul Acts 9.4 that he persecuted him though in Heaven so they who resist any truth delivered out of the Word do resist God himself and not his Messenger But see further what you do by what your fellow-persecutours have done before you With such impatience does a gauled heart receive admonition that when God himself came to reprove Cain for killing his brother Abel he had no sooner spake these words Where is Abel thy brother but he returns to God himself this churlish answer Am I my brothers keeper Gen. 4.9 Again the Scribes Pharisees and Elders were filled full of madness against our Saviour and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus and how they might destroy him the which you would also do if he were your Minister now upon earth for being so bitter Luke 6.11 For if you cannot away with the light of a candle you would much lesse endure to look upon the glorious Sun Now if God himself was so served if Christs own doctrine could not escape persecution no marvel if his Messengers cannot Here then is some comfort for your Minister Honey out of a Lion Nor is it his shame to suffer what Christ suffered nor your honour to do as Cain Judas and the rest did as Cyprian speaks But secondly take notice what our Saviours counsel is to his Ministers when his holy precepts and prohibitions do either harden men as the Sun hardens clay and cold water hot iron or else inrage them as a furious mastiffe-dog is the madder for his chain What his counsel method is may be seen both by testimonies and examples not a few As Cast not your pearls before swine Mat. 7.6 Into whatsoever citie you shall enter if they will not receive you go your wayes out into the sreets of the same and say Even the very dust which cleaveth on us of your citie we wipe off against you for a witnesse unto you Notwithstanding know this that it shall be easier for Sodome and Gomorrah at the day of judgement than for you Luke 10.10 11 12. Those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me Luke 19.27 And that this is an evident signe of one that shall eternally perish is plain Pro 29.1 read the words and tremble A man that hardeneth his neck being often reproved shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy See more Prov. 1.24 25 26 to 33. Whence it is the Prophet tels Amaziah I know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my counsel 2 Chron. 25.16 20. And that the Holy Ghost speaking of Eli's sons saith that They would not hearken unto nor obey the voice of their Father because the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2.25 Yea it is an observation of Livie that when the destruction of a person or a Nation is destined then the wholesome warnings both of God and man are set at nought And in reason that sin is past cure that strives against ●he cure Herbs that are worse for watering Trees that are lesse fruitful for dunging and pruning are to be rooted out or hewen down Even salvation it self will not save those that spill the potion and sling away the plaster When men are the worse for Gods endeavour to better them the best and onely way is to leave them to their Judge Those Beasts we cannot master we must give up If Babylon will not be cured she must be left to her self given up to destruction without further warning My people would not hear my voice saith God and Israel would none of me Psal 81. and what follows So I gave them up to the hardnesse of their hearts and they walkt in their own counsels vers 11 12. All further patience would prove fruitlesse so he layeth by his rod to take up his sword as God hath Messengers of wrath for them that despise the Messengers of his love Sect. 8. Now to end with a word of exhortation to as many of you as have heard what hath hitherto been delivered from one that is no party and so lesse subject to be partial and that are not yet given over In the first place be not any longer offended with your Pastour for he is appointed a Watch-man over your souls and doth but discharge his office that God hath placed him in Ezek. 3 17. and he should be guilty of high treason against Christ and the souls committed to his care if he should do lesse As the Centinel or Captain that doth not what he can to maintain the wals doth what he can to betray the City The word is no other than Christs though delivered by a weak Instrument Who ever be the Crier the proclamation is the King of Heavens While it goes for mans it is no marvel if it lye open to despite So that in hating your Minister and complaining of his bitterness you do as wisely and justly as if the people should impute the cause of the war to the Herald or accuse the Trumpet for all that their rebellion hath brought upon them Yea consider who is the Authour of the Word what the cause and ends of the Ministers delivering it and that there is nothing can cure your grief but the same Word that caused it and then thou wilt receive him as an Angel of God yea even as Christ Jesus as the primitive Christians did the Apostles Gal. 4.14 who acknowledged to owe even themselves to their spiritual Pastours Philem. 19. And would if it had been possible have pluckt out their own eyes and have given the same unto them Gal. 4.14 15. and 6.6 You have heard sufficiently that this is the true method of preaching though it be little used because discretion with many eats up well nigh all true devotion Their discretion and moderate stayedness much abates of their zeal honesty and goodness Nor can there be a better argument to prove that a Minister studies more to profit than to please men with his wholesome counsel than when he will not let them sleep and snort in their sins but cry aloud against their abominations I grant Corrasives are not to be used in all cases Lenatives and Cordials are of no lesse use to weak constitutions Whence the care of every wise and able Minister that hath skill to divide the word of God aright must be and is to give to each man his due portion comfort to whom comfort belongs terrour to whom terrour is due observing the same rule that St. Paul did who meeting with an Elymas one that resisted the truth and