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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64253	A treatise of contentment leading a Christian with much patience through all afflicted conditions by sundry rules of heavenly wisedome : whereunto is annexed first, A treatise of the improvement of time, secondly, The holy warre, in a visitation sermon / by T.T.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Treatise of the improvement of time.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Holy warre.	1641 (1641)	Wing T571; ESTC R26964	82,319	242

meaning He must absteine from such things as hinder his Calling the course of his publike Ministery for these causes First because of the greatnesse of his function whence S. Paul saith Who is sufficient for these things Secondly Because of his owne weaknesse being an earthen vessell though filled with heavenly treasure Thirdly Because of the contrariety of the Word and the world no man can serve these two Masters Out of the Title or Appellation of a Minister we may learne that Every faithfull Minister is a souldier warring under Iesus Christ not onely as he is a Christian but also as he is a Minister As a Christian hee begins his strife in Baptisme and ends with life As a Minister it begins so soone as ever he sets himselfe faithfully to discharge his dutie Christ no sooner inaugurated but begins combat with the devil As a Christian the place of battell is the world as a Minister the place is his speciall standing office in the Church As a Christian his chiefe strife is with himselfe his reason with his reason his will with his will and every part with other as a Minister his greatest strife is without him fighting with the corrupt reason and wils of the wicked angels and men The Apostle especially aymeth at this latter and so must we A minister by vertue of his speâ—iall calling is a souldier of God and not a common one but a leader First His Ministery is a warfare a speciall calling set apart to batter the walls of the Devils kingdome and maintain Christ in the right of his kingdome so that every good Minister must imitate Nehemiahs souldiers hold the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other fight with one hand and build with the other Secondly his weapons are Ministeriall gifts of sanctification and of his function the use of which is to stablish truth and convince error His contention stands not in the exercise of the strength of the body but of the graces of the minde faith prayers and teares Nor his victory in shewing greatnesse and headinesse of Spirit but in modesty charity humility patience and suffering Christian fortitude is in ferendo non in feriendo not in smiting but suffering Thirdly his enemies are Satan himselfe who stands at his right hand to hinder him as Iehoshua in his Ministery and all the bands of Satan or troups in which his chief power consisteth as idolatry empiety sin error the stubbornnes and pride of mans heart which ever resisteth the truth of God and all such persons as are more speciall agents and negotiators for Satan as first Heretickes who are souldiers but the divels Champions and under his pay Among them all that which we must most oppose is the heresie of Popery which hath many great and resolute Defenders who are souldiers too but not of Iesus Christ but of Antichrist his arch enemie and yet because Popery should be manifest to be the mystery of iniquity under the colours of Christ it fighteth against Christ Secondly openly wicked and profane persons who under a profession of Christianity sticke not to live as heathens following the fashions of the world and trading in the lusts of their owne hearts Thirdly secretlywicked men and hypocrites who in shew professe Christianity also but in heart cleave to the world and their owne lusts as Iudas did Fourthly Apostates and revolters traytors unto Christ who after they have taken his pressemony and good wages turne into the enemies campe Fifthly schismatickes and Separatists who are not able to distinguish betweene the City and the wall the body and the disease the face and the spot id est betweene substance and ceremonie and with as great heat fight against our Church as against a Synagogue of Antichrist Against all these as every Christian else so especially the Minister must contend for the faith which was once given to the Saints Iude 3. But one rule must be observed in all these We must intend paecem cum hominibus cum vitijs bellum peace with the men warre with the vices Fourthly they never want the just and lawfull causes of a necessary warre as First to suppresse spirituall enmities as the Iudges did the heathens Secondly to deliver the oppressed such as are taken captives of Satan and sinne and laden with the bolts of lusts 2 Tim. 2. 26. So Abraham rescued Lot and David his two wives Thirdly to recover things wrongfully taken Gods image holinesse righteousnesse grace and the Kingdome of glory Fourthly warre is publica quaedam vindicta so Israel revenged the wrong done to the Levites wife Fiftly breaking of leagues is a just cause of warre as 2 Kings 24. 1 2. when Iehoiakim rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar God sent against him the Chaldees Syrians Moabites and Ammonites So David served Hanun Now if the Ministery be a warfare certainely it is no calling of ease but he that is to enter into this calling must looke for labour paines perill disgrace persecution and as a good souldier of Iesus Christ suffer affliction Never was there a more difficult and doubtfull warre undertaken First in respect of the adversaries Satan all wicked men who continually bend their forces against a godly Minister Christ was no sooner baptized but tempted nor Paul sooner converted but persecution arose They are hostes iurati the unholy and yet that that calleth it self the holy league Secondly In respect of the invincible holds they are to assault even the kingdome and throne of Satan which he hath been fortifying almost 6000. yeares and hath so entrenched himselfe in the world as onely the power of God is able to cast downe his towers Besides what paines is required to subdue the stubborne heart of man wch standeth diametrally opposite to the Gospel and will not easily yeeld up it selfe With what sweat and labour are those high thoughts that are erected against god brought under Thirdly In respect of the aydes and fortifications which the adverse party daily receiveth from Allyes and Confederates The world the devils faithfull Armour-bearer sets upon a Minister on the right hand with entisements preferments and encombrances and ministereth a thousand occasions to call him from his businesse that the devill may make havocke of the flocke On the left hand it besets him with persecutions if the former succeed not as Iosephs Mistresse first used faire entising speaches and these not prevayling fell foule with him presently Fourthly in respect of the Ministers function and standing He is a leader in the foreward and forlorne hopes that must stand the first encounter with fresh fierce and furious enemies The chiefe ayme of an Army is against the standard-bearer and David knew what it was to set Vriah in the first ranke No marvell then if the Apostle would first of all arme Timothy against afflictions What doe we souldiers dreame of ease and delicacy What

faith inexpugnable They may be slaine but not overcome Enemies may kill the body but withall they free the spirit from the burthen of it Neither can they keep the body ever in dust and ashes no more then by all their strength and policy they could the body of Christ in the grave but it shall rise out of the ashes to a glorious and everlasting life in which faith it is content the life bee laid downe for Christ Hence the Disciples were glad they were accounted worthy to suffer for Christ Hence the Martyrs in the Primitive Church were so forward to offer their lives to Christ as the woman of Edissa came running with her young childe in her armes left the Christians should be burned before she came and shee not burned with them The like of Polycarpâ— of Blanditta a peerelesse woman of Acolus a mirrour of patience and others And what of our owne Martyrs who could sing to God in the midst of the flames By these and the like Motives a godly heart becomes not onely contented to dye for Christ but joyfull and desirous CHAP. XI Of friends unkindnesse or death and Contentment therein WEe have spoken of private evils in the first kind namely more spirituall against all which we have heard how godlines fenceth the heart with contentment Now we are to proceed to temporall and they respect either others or our selves The former is especially when we are afflicted in our friends and that two wayes either in the unkindnesse of them living or losse of them by death Godlinesse contenteth the Christian man in the former upon these or the like grounds 1 It lets him see how unkinde himself hath bin to God and well deserved that his friends should use him as he hath done his best friend 2 It hath this good use to draw neer unto God grow up into familiarity and acquaintance with him as David Ps. 27. 10. my father mother forsooke me but the Lord tooke me up And a faithful heart knows that Gods love is not so flitting but loving once he loveth to the end Al they who were bound in bonds of nature and other offices to David were forced by Sauls malice and tyranny to leave him to himselfe but then God stuck to him 3 It seeth it self in no worse condition then the Saints of old Who slew Abel but his own brother who mocked Noah but his own son Cham who sold Ioseph hated him but his brethren who unjustly blamed our Lord Iesus Christ but his brethren kindred according to the flesh Ioh. 7. 3 4. Who betrayed him but one whoÌ„ he had chosen to be his Disciple he that ate bread with him at his table It was thou my friend and familiar Oh but this is a great crosse out of mine owne bosome from husband or wife or out of my own bowels from childe where should I looke for comfort but from hence True but first So long as the combate is not with God if he looke graciously on thy soule if Christ thy husband smile upon thee thou mayest beare the frownes of a froward husband or wife the better 2 This is a great outward tryall but perhaps other inferior ones have been neglected and small things will not make great hearts stoupe Besides crosses of another kinde would not smart so much nor sticke so long Here is a continuall dropping Bee sure to bee well softened 3 It is neverthelesse no other then the deare Saints of God have bin humbled bettered by Was not Iobs greatest trouble out of his owne bosome Was not his breath strange to his wife who would not be intreated for their childrens sake Was it not Sampsons overthrow Was not David mocked by his Michal Besides had not Iacob his greatest exercise from his own bowels his only daughter defloured one sonne banished another an adulterer another incestuous another yea sundry of them murtherers Was not David exercised by his rebellious Absalom See we not at this day most gracious Parents tryed shamed with most gracelesse children wherein is seene that men beget children in their owne image in corrupt nature not according to grace and that every good childe is of God In the losse and departure of our friends by death godlinesse quieteth the Christian by these Motives 1 The decease of our friends is not by chance but by Gods disposing who turneth man to dust and saith againe Returne ye sons of men And herein we must imitate holy Iob who blessed God as well in taking away his children as in giving them 2 Our good friends perish not neither have we lost them but sent them before unto the Kingdome of Heaven Their death is not an end but a passage They are blessed that are dead in the Lord or rather sleep in the Lord Ioh. 11. 11. We must not envy their happinesse and quiet rest into which they are arrived out of the restlesse sea of this world nor immoderately mourne in blacke for them who are clothed in long white robes washed in the blood of the Lambe 3 They shall be restored unto us in their bodies glorified and made like the glorious body of Christ and joyned for ever unto us again in a better and eternall life 4 Our best friend never dyes nor failes us and therefore we may more contentedly part with other that are not so neer us neither can doe us so much good Strait is the knot between man and wife which so long as it lasteth other losses of acquaintance and kinsfolks are more tolerable if the loving husband and wife remaine together But the love of God cannot be broken there is a neerer and straiter bond betweene him and the godly then between man and wife If we can see this bond tyed between God and our friends and God and our selves we shall in decease of our dearest friends comfort our selves neither fearing to commit them into the hands of their best friend God the father of mercies nor yet our selves without them to be destitute of frieÌ„ds seeing our best friend stands by us in whom and for whom they are to bee loved This consideration may quiet those who are as impatient in the death of their frâ—ends as Annah was in the waÌ„t of children to whom Elkanah said Am not I better to thee then ten sons Say with Elkanah Is not God better to me then ten husbands or ten thousand children Simeon having Christ in his arms could dy in peace 5 We shall not want friends on earth in stead of them who are taken from us so farre as God seeth good for us His hand is not shortened â—ee can raisâ— us better friends and if men were wanting faith in his promises would make the bruit beasts friendly to us before we should faile The Lyons shall preserve Daniel The Ravens shall feed Elias The dogges of the rich glutton shall licke Lazarus sores and shew

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