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B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

such complements which may take vp that time which ought otherwise to be bestowed 2 The other 2. Ioh. v. 10.11 If any come to you and bring not the doctrine of Christ receiue him not into your house nor bid him God speed For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his euill deeds An Hereticke and stubborne maintainer of false doctrine against the foundation is not to be saluted Polycarpus meeting with Marcion the Hereticke refused to salute him and when Marcion said Cognosce nos Irenaeus aduers Haeres l. 3. c. 3. I pray you take knowledge of vs Polycarpus answered Cognosco te primogenitum Satanae I know thee for an Impe of the Diuell Wee may pray for such but we may not familiarly salute them Thus much of the generall doctrine of Salutations now of the particular persons saluted The first whom Paul saluteth are a married couple Aquila and his wife Priscilla who are described in the third and fourth verses which description as the rest following containeth a commendation of them These are here described three wayes 1 By their Names which doubtlesse are from the Romane tongue the woman being here and elsewhere called Prisca in some copies but the Romanes very vsually called women by Diminutiues as Drusilla Petronilla Domitilla Tulliola so Priscilla either noting their loue to them or the softnesse of their sexe or their lesser stature There were other of these names but after them as one Aquila who of a Heathen became a Christian and of a Christian at length a lew who translated the old Testament into Greeke and thereby much peruerted the Scriptures Also there were diuers of the name of Priscilla some vertuous but one infamous namely one of the impure prophetesses of Montanus But these are that Aquila and Priscilla of whom we reade Acts 18.2.3 by nation a Iew borne in Pontus by occupation a Tent-maker 2 By their Helpe which they afforded Paul not onely in making of Tents for Paul was of that trade but in Christ Iesus that is in preaching the Gospell of Christ not that they preached but furthered the preaching many wayes priuately as occasion was offered Act. 18.26 as by Catechizing of Apollos and by protecting of Paul as it followeth in the next verse No man is so meane Obser but hee may be and ought to be a furtherance to the preaching of the Gospell If Parents and Masters would bring vp their children and seruants in the feare of God and vnder discipline it would be a great furtherance to a Minister Also priuate men by their prayers good life and liberalitie may much set forward the Ministery of the Word 3 By their loue to Paul set downe by an infallible token of it which was that for his life they laid downe their owne neckes Greater loue can no man shew then to venture his life for his friend This is amplified by Pauls thankefulnesse and the Churches to them for it When or where or in what manner this was done is no where set downe that euer I read It is supposed to haue bin either at Corinth or at Ephesus in both which places Paul was in danger and they in his company Acts 18. and 19. There are three persons for whom we are to venture our liues Obser 1 For our Naturall parents for we receiue our liues from them 2 And most principally for the Father of the Countrey for the King or Supreme Magistrate 2. Sam. 21.17 as Abishai for Dauid for the King is more worth then ten thousand others 2. Sam. 18.3 3 For our faithfull Preachers being publike persons and such as may by their labours saue many soules Hearers owe themselues to their Pastors as Paul telleth Philemon Phil. 19. and their liues as in the example of Aquila and Priscilla They ought not then to rayle on and slaunder their Teachers neither ought they to defraud them of their due maintenance but they ought to submit to their godly admonitions Thou owest thy life to thy Teacher much more the reformation of thy wicked life at his admonition Paul giues thankes to them so doe all the Churches of the Gentiles also for Paul was the Apostle of the Gentiles and by his death they had had an vnspeakable losse We must giue thankes to God for his blessings Obser 1 also to the instruments by whose meanes God bestoweth them vpon vs. Singular examples of thankfulnesse are Dauid and Elisha the one enquiring for some of the house of Saul that hee might shew kindnesse to them for his friend Ionathans sake 2 Sam. 9.1 the other in studying how to requite the woman of Shunem 2 Kings 4.8.13 Gen. 40.23 On the other side Pharaohs Butler is an example of vnthankfulnesse though afterwards he acknowledged his fault Gen. 41.9 So is Ioash King of Iudah who vniustly caused to bee put to death the sonne of Iehoiada the high Priest which Iehoiada had saued his life and aduanced him to the kingdome For thus is it written 2 Chron. 24.22 Thus Ioash the king remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada had done vnto him but slew his sonne A people are bound to them who shew kindnesse to their Teacher Obser 2 VERSE 5. Likewise greet the Church which is in their house SAint Paul salutes the houshold of Aquila which he cals a Church for the priuate duties of Gods worship as prayer catechising reading the Scriptures c. performed therein and also for the good and orderly life of the family It is not like that Saint Paul meaneth the Saints which met there for the publique seruice of God by reason of the particular salutations of diuers of them following We ought so to gouerne our families that they may bee worthy to be called Churches Obser Adams house was called The face of God Gen. 4.14 And so did Abraham and Iacob Gen. 18.19 Gen. 35.2 Iosh 24.15 Psal 101. Acts 10.2 and Ioshua Dauid order their families Also Cornelius though a military man A house where there are no exercises of religion but where idlenesse lying slandering common swearing cursing are rife and where drunkennesse vncleannes and riotous liuing are ordinarily practised may bee called an assembly of Atheists a denne of theeues and lewd beasts and the Diuels chappell rather then Church of God As our bodies and soules so our families are to be consecrated to God as his holy Temples VERSE 5. Salute my welbeloued Epenetus who is the first fruits of Achaia vnto Christ EPenetus is here saluted and described three wayes 1 By his name Epenetus that is as the Greeke soundeth praise-worthy or laudable and doubtlesse his life was answerable to his name 2 By Pauls loue to him his welbeloued without doubt for his vertues 3 By his forwardnesse in Religion The first fruits of Achaia vnto Christ that is one of the first that in that countrey receiued the Gospell and gaue his name vnto Christ This is expressed by a speech alluding to the Leuiticall Law

vnnecessary bibbing and quaffing Thy conscience tels thee that drunkennesse is a sinne Obs deceiue not thy selfe as to thinke thou art not guilty vnlesse thou make thy selfe abeast to be depriued of the vse of reason is the highest degree of this sinne but to drinke immoderately is drunkennesse in some degree If by thy constitution and strength of thy braine thou beest able to beare as much drink as two or three men without the alienation of thy mind yet know that thou art not the lesse but the more culpable thereby Remember what the Prophet saith Woe to them that are mighty to drinke wine Esay 5.22 and men of strength to mingle strong drink Gluttony and Drunkennesse Doctr. disgrace the persons and profession of Christians Pro. 23.20 We must not be amongst wine bibbers and riotous eaters of flesh much lesse may wee doe such things Luke 21.34 Take heed lest your hearts be ouer charged with surfetting and drunkennesse 1 Peter 4.3 1 Cor. 6.10 Gal. 5.21 Wee may not genio indulgere be greedy of dainty cates Vse 1 like the rich glutton who fared delitiously euery day It is lawfull vpon occasion to exceed in prouision but neuer lawfull to exceed the bounds of moderate eating Iude. 12. nor without feare to feed our selues The Romanes were greatly faulty herein also the Iewes in the dayes of Esay and Amos. These are belly-gods of whom Paul Phil. 3.19 Epicuri de grege porci Swinish Epicures which know nothing nor intend but curare cutem to pamper themselues with dainty fare And surely so exceedingly are wee of this Nation peccant this way that that scoffe may bee returned vpon vs which was cast vpon the Agrigenti●es or men of Megara They build as if they were to liue euer they prouide for their bellies as if they were to dye to morrow But venter paruo contentus si das quod debes non quod potes The belly is content with a little Seneca if you giue it so much as you owe not so much as you can Rich Alcamenes prouided and fed sparingly being asked the reason he answered that it became multapossidentem pro ratione non pro libidine viuere Plato inuited to supper Timothy the Athenian Duke and intertained him with a roote and a sallet but with Philosophicall discourses also for which Timothy gaue thankes to Plato the next day on this manner They which sup with Plato feele themselues the better for it the next day for indeed many through gurmundizing feele themselues the worse many dayes after It hath beene obserued and affirmed that more perish by surfetting then by the sword These examples of the Heathens should admonish vs to beware of excesse whereby we dull our apprehension and vnfit our selues for our duties to God and man The frugality and moderation of the Patriarchs and holy Kings is remarkeable and also of the Christians of former times One instance for many In the dayes of Tertullian Tertull. in Apolog. it was imputed to the Christians that the were prodigall and giuen to belly cheere because of their loue feasts which therefore Tertullian describes thus Non prius discumbitur c. We sit not downe till an assay be taken by prayer to God Wee eate so much as may stay hunger and drink so much as is profitable for the chast and snamefast We are filled so as that we remember that we must worship God in the night we discourse so as they who know that God heares them Post aquam manualem after water and lights euery man is prouoked to sing vnto God something out of the Scriptures or out of his owne inuention by which a triall is made how he hath eaten and drunk Also Grace and prayer takes away and ends the feast and from thence wee depart not to any wanton riotous or lasciuious practices but to the same care of modesty and chastity Vt qui non tam caenum caenauerint quam disciplinam so that you might thinke that they had beene rather at a Sermon or at some Lecture of sobriety then at a Supper Vse 2 Abhorre Drunkennesse and be sober The fearfull effects of Drunkennesse are manifold 1 It wasts our Substance it hath brought many families to lesse then a morsell of bread and hath clothed men of some note with ragges Pro. 23.20.21 Diogenes seeing a bill fastened vpon a drunkards doore signifying that the house was to bee sould I thought said he that he would at last vomit his house also 2 It oucrthrowes health causing Palsies Apoplexies and diuers other diseases as the Physitians witnesse 3 It takes away a mans good name Scurrarum est saith a Father It was wont to be the beggars sinne Hieran ep 83. ad Oceanum according to the Prouerbe As drunke as a beggar but now many that are no beggars are grieuously faulty in this bruitishnes 4 It extinguisheth the light of reason and robbes vs of that pretious Iewell Anima sicca sapientissima the dry soule is the wise soule Many seeme to haue animam pro sale a soule they haue but as salt onely to keepe their bodies from rotting aboue ground They drowne their wits that as the earth oppressed with water is vnfruitfull so they are altogether vnprofitable Nabuchodonosor was not more a beast then is a drunkard 5 It is the sountaine of all luxurious and filthy doings and the cause of much sinne In it is excesse of riot saith Saint Paul Ephes 5.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Drunkards are many of them of the principallest factors for the Diuell for hauing beene ouertaken themselues they neuer cease labouring to make others the children of hell like themselues and therein after a hellish manner reioyce Consul Amb. l. de Elia Jeiunio ca. 11. Amb loc cit c. 17 These are they which knowe no way to honour their friends but by arinking their healths against which Ambrose declaimes and this forsooth is to be done by threes which Saint Austin calles a filthy custome the poyson of the Diuell and the vnhappy vse of the Pagans he saith farther Aug. ser 231. de tempere ad● sinem Quicunque hee in suo conuiuio aut alieno fieri acquieuerit diabelo se sacrificasse non dubitauerit that is whosoeuer shall consent to such healths-drinking by threes at his owne or at any other mans table let him not doubt but that hee hath by so doing sacrificed to the Diuell and therefore hee adiureth his hearers by the dreadfull day of iudgement that they banish this heathenish custome It damnes the soule 1. Cor. 6.10 Gal. 5.20 Howle therefore you drunkards for the misery which shall come vpon you when euery drop of wine or beare immoderately taken shall be recompensed with a sea of wrath If thou desirest to be able to serue God in prayer faith abhor drunkennes for a drunkard is a very Atheist these are they which in Esayes and Pauls time denyed the prouidence of God 1 Cor. 15.32