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The stable trveths of the Kirk reqvire a svtable behaviour holden forth by way of sermon upon I. Tim. 3. vers. 14. 15., delivered by Mr. William Dowglas ... before the provinciall Synod of Aberdene, April 18. 1659.
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THE STABLE TRVETHS OF THE KIRK REQVIRE A SVTABLE BEHAVIOUR Holden forth by way of SERMON upon I. Tim. 3. Vers 14. 15. delivered by Mr. William Dowglas PROFESSOR of Divinity in Kings Colledge in the University of Aberden before the provinciall Synod of Aberdene APRIL 18. 1659. Psal 25. 5. Leade mee in thy truth and teach mee Psal 50. 23. and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God John 17. 17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Act. 26. 25. But he said I am not mad most noble Festus but speak forth the words of truth and sobernesse ABERDENE PRINTED by J. B. in March Ann. 1660. Some Escapes to be thus amended Page 18. lin â— reade enervats and l. 35. r. then it is a. pag. 19. l. 39 r. propose pag 23. l. 30. r. declarations pag. 26. l. 5. 8. infalliblie pag. 28. l 27. adde the word by pag. 29. l. 18. r. concluding pag. 34. l. 4. r. concernment ibid. l. 37. r. vnueâ—eâ—aries pag. 38. l. 19. r. inveigh pag. 43. l. 28. r. feed To the Right Honourable and his singular good Lord My Lord Duffus the Author wisheth such sufficiencie of Grace as may bring to fulnesse of Glory IF true Piety if high esteeme of Learning and true Religion if love to the forme of sound words holding ouâ— saving trueths if due respect to the faithfull Ministers of CHRIST if well purchased Honour if close walking with GOD if ingenuous and honest actings for the good OLD CAUSE may be strong inducements to make vse of such a Patron then for all these jointly let mee be bold humbly to desire to present the following thoughts to publick view under the Patrocinie of your L. honourable Name When these graces in your L. have indeared you to all the Lovers of precious trueths in these parts then why not mee also IT was the earnest desire of some Reverend and godly Ministers both by word and writte that my thoughts upon these verses 14 15 of I. Tim. Chap. 3. should bee published wherein though through much weaknes I confesse I have endeavoured to vindicat cleare diverse precious saving trueths which to make out it behoved me to inlarge some points more fully then were in Sermon delivered wherein my chiefe aime hath been the just opposing of Popery and other Novations the Assertors and Fomenters whereof with a mouth full and foule have poured out all manner of Obloquie and Contempt upon Gospel-trueths and the holy Ministery so to render both odious vselesse ineffectuall which with our own present Coldnesse and Indifferencie in the things of GOD and the not sisting of needlesse debates together with our barrennesse and walking unsutable and behaviour unanswerable to the GOSPEL of CHRIST speak no lesse then the removing of the Candlestick or some great eclipse of Religion among us I have shunned all just offence in owning these trueths if any charge asperitie let these know that were it not That love covereth many blemishes much more might have been spoken If any professe unsatisfaction in some things here let me tell them That I speak the truth in CHRIST that I am for peace but doth not seek to please men I shall spare to adde more onely this That recommending this Treatise both to your L. favourable acceptance and judicious Censure and hoping that your L. will regard the substaÌ„ce of matter accept the minde of the Offerer I recoÌ„mend your L. to the rich Grace of GOD. who hath called you to the unfained love of the trueth and is able to preserve you unblameable therein to the end I do subscribe my self Your L. most humble servant in the Lord Mr. William Dowglas At old Aberdene March 30. 1660. A SERMON Delivered by Mr. VVilliam Dowglas PROFESSOR of Divinity in Kings Colledge before the Provinciall Synod of ABERDENE Aprile 18. 1659. Upon I. TIM Vers 14. 15. These things write I unto thee hoping to come vnto thee shortlie But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy self in the house of GOD Which is the Church of the living GOD the pillar and ground of the trueth IN this first Epistle The Apostle worthily acquireth himselfe three wayes First as a Pastor instructing Timothy both anent the right end of the LAW as also what Gospel-Trueths are to bee taught professed and practised and withall urging his proficiencie in them as in Chap. 1. and 2. Secondly as a Prophet fortelling dangerous approaching times sad Apostasie totall or partiall as Chap. 4. c. Thirdly as an Apostle prescribing Rules anent the oeconomie of the true Visible Church and emitting Canons anent Office-bearers Bishops and Deacons in that Church as in chap. 3. of which the TEXT is In it are two points considerable I. a Reason why he issues out this Directory which is That he might know how c. II. Upon Division of the Text. the mentioning of his sutable behaviour wee have an elegant description of the Church by way of Commendation in that it is The house of GOD c. the ground of trueth a Summarie of which Trueths we have vers 16. As for the first set down in vers 14. and beginning of vers 15. in it two remarkable points are expressed 1. The course he Vers 14. divided into 2. taketh being absent These things write I unto thee 2. The way he purposeth to supplie that hoping to come unto the shortly But if I c. In the First againe I shall shortly take notice but of these In first are three three I. The Course is writing II. Who doeth write III. Who it is hee writes unto As to the first Scripturall Writtings are for three 1. For I. writting for what Memoriall duration see Isai 30. 8. Exod. 17. 14. 2. For Admonition excitation and Christian edification see I. Cor. 10. 11. II. Pet. 3. 1. and I. John 2. 14. 20. 3. For the due regulating Namely for three of Faith and manners as Joh. 5. 39. Joh. 20. 31. II. Tim. 3. 15. 16. Whence we may collect of what singular use for Unitie Concord were the Encyclickes of the Antient Kirk called by AUGUST CoÌ„municaetoriae literae But passing this I the rather note the Ends of the Divine writes to stoppe Stappletons foule mouth Who Contr. 4. q. 5. preferreth the Word-unwritten to the Written for three Respects 1. For Authority in that the Vnwritten Word may define against the Written 2. That the Vnwritten Word is of greater certanty for determinations of Faith 3. That the Materialls proposed in the Vnwritten Word are more excellent then these in the Written Word The very repetition of which blasphemies may be a just refutation of them As to the Second This is undeniable that it belonged to the Apostolick II. Who writes function to emitt Rules for the Church both in generall as also in particular Here briefly take notice of three 1. It belonged to Apostolick jurisdiction
The house of God the 1. The house of God Church in scripture is compared to a garden inclosed to an Army to a City and here to an House but to that of God CHRYSOST affirming the Apostle here to allude to Bethel and to the Temple of the Lord. Here first consider Why the Church hath this denomination then give some vses of it As to the first The very origination or signification of the I. Why the Church is so called word in the Hebrew Greeke and English relates to it as of God In the first it is building in the second it is dwelling in the third it is defending IT is well remarked by D. HaÌ„mond this is a phrase taken froÌ„ that speciall place of Gods presentiating himself For as Ambrose sayes Thoughall the world be his Dominion yet the Church is onely his House For here Hee dwels here hee delights to meete with the pious devout soule here hee receives their addresses here hee answers their petitions here he is worshipped Three-fold hous of God 1. Materiall and without this house is no such communications no such intertainment But further to cleare this the word House of God relates either 1. to the Materiall house whereof reade I. King 8. ordained as an adminicle to advance Prayer praise sacrifices in it Or Sedgwick on psal 23. mantaines this to Of this hous ar these places meaned luke 19. 46 Eccl. 4. last be Gods house both for operation and for separation in that divine duties and services are performed in it and so to be set a part as not to be a Stable or an Aile-house The primitive Christians after the publick peace of Christendome sutably had their Auditories and Oratories which the Grecians and Latines called Basilicae and Dominicae 2. Is the Coelestiall whereof we we reade 2. Cor. 5. 1. 2. and Joh. 14. 2. 3. Is the Spirituall yet 2. Coelestiall Militant the true Church on earth both visible and invisible this is here and of this house are also these places Heb. 3. 2. 6. 3. Spirituall I. Pet. 4. 17. Psal 69. 9. Luk. 1. 27. Ephes 2. 19. Gal. 6. 10. This is that house where fatnesse is psal 36. 8. this is that house wher satisfying goodnesse is psal 65. 4. this is that house of David luk 1. 33. this is that house built on the Rocke Matth. 7. 24. this is that house where holinesse is seemly psal 93. 5. here wee inquire psal 27. 4. here he remains by ordinances and his spirit see I. cor 3. 16. I. Cor. 6. 19. II. Cor. 6. 16. Augustine yet further holds out the resemblance thus 1. A house hath the ground the walls the roofe so the Church hath saith to be grounded upon hope to bee erected by and love that covereth c. 2. A great house hath severall Office-bearers so that the Church I. Cor. 12. 28. Ephes 4. 11. 12. 3. A great mans house hath vessels and vtâ—nfiles of all and for all sorts Now as God is a great Honsholder Matth. 20. 1. so hath he in the Catholick Visible Church vessels of diverse frames II. Tim. 2. 20. 4. In a great house is provision for young and old poore and rich weake and strong so it is in this house see Heb. 5. 12. 13. 14. I. Pet. 2. 2. Matth. 15. 26. Marke the Differences between God his house ours 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 27. 5. In a great house there is but one Head and Lord so here it is Ephes 33. 22. Eph. 5. 24. Col. 1. 18. But yet further to inlarge the point marke the great differences between Gods House and our houses in these 1. Our houses keepe and defend us but God keeps and defends His House psal 121. 3. 5. 6. psal 125. 2. Isai 40. 2. Isai 27. 2. 3. it is not with Gods house as with that of dagon I. Sam. 5. 4. 2. Our houses locally comprehend us but no house coÌ„prehends God as I. Kings 8. 27. 4. Wee may be absent from our houses elswhere but it is not so here see psal 24. 1. Matth. 28. 20. Isai 43. 2. Heb. 13. 5. 5. The strongest of our houses they decay weare away and are perishing as Amos 6. 11. Psal 49. 11. 12 but not so here All true Members of this lower house or Militant Church though now they be Viatores shall be of the vpper house or of the Triumphant Church and Comprehensores see psal 84. 11. The Lord will give grace and glory 6. O how farre is this House surpassing all the magnifick Structures all the sumptuous fabricks of the most curious and exquisite Architects of this world if wee either regard the eminent Structure the situation the accomodation the contrivement the duration the perfection of its beauty see psal 87. Isai 26. 1. 2. Heb. 11. 10. Rev. 21 c. Never talk of the Persian Hispaan the Ethiopian Amara the Egyptian Pyramids the Adrian Mole or the Lorenzo in Spayn for in comparison with this They are but as the drope of the bucket compared to the sea or as the dust of the ballance compared to the whole earth Vses 1 Now in so much That sutable to this House of God behaviour is required my first vse is this Laboure to be within this house Do as David psal 23. 5. I will dwell in it for ever This is the Mother of us all This must be to us as the Ark of Noah not onely to be in it but abide in it see Joh. 15. 6. 7. I. Joh. 2. 19. Away with separation needlesse and unjust IT is a good word of CYPRIAN He that hath not the Church for his Mother he hath not God for his Father If we be Members of this House it shall be our best behaviour to 2. Vse carry so as becomes the house wee are come off Let us look out like vessels of honour fitted for the Masters use a peevish or a ranting behaviour argues a vessell of dishonour Remember that of ps 93. 5. Holinesse becomes thy house O Lord it is good word of Nehemiah chap. 6. vers 11. Should such a man as I flee Should one inrolled in the King of heavens Family carry basesly idlely divisively Remember who are without Revel 22. 15. c. If civill carriage bee much required and looked after in a great mans house how much more is christian and spirituall behaviour required in this great Lords House Then in particular Let each Member minde the welfare and 3. Vse standing of Gods house Augustine being interrogated how this should bee Answered Orando juvando condolendo congaudendo for which acts see these scriptures psal 122. 9. 7. 8. 9. Amos 6. 6. Rom. 12. 15. I. Cor. 12. 26. psal 42. 4. psal 27. 4. c. Our greatest joy and glory shall be to contribute our talents hither to repaire breaches to restore paths to dwell in Then in speciall Let Ministers looke to their behaviour in this house No house requires so wise