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A19474	A hand of fellovvship, to helpe keepe out sinne and Antichrist In certaine sermons preached vpon seuerall occasions: by Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1623 (1623)	STC 59; ESTC S100379	198,722	312

as the Apostle saith God hath put all things vnder his feet and hath giuen him to be the head ouer all things to the Church which is his body Secondly Christ hath most perfectly whatsoeuer may be most necessary for the life and saluation of his Church It pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Col. 1.19 2.9 Iohn 1.16 and out of his fulnesse we all receiue grace for grace he being made of God vnto vs wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Apoc. 9. Ioh. 10 27 28. Eph. 5.26 Rom. 8. He doth redeeme the Church by his bloud preserue it by his power instruct it by his Word renue and lead it by his Spirit Thirdly in all the controuersies betwixt God his creatures and the Church shee hath none to answer for her to pleade her cause and procure her peace Es 9.6 Eph. 5.23 but onely Iesus Christ the Counsellor and Prince of peace as the wife her husb●nd Fourthly Christ doth the duty of a Head that is giue spirituall sense by the sauing vnderstanding of spirituall things and motion by giuing strength and power to walke in them Yea he doth knit and ioyne the parts together to him by merit and spirit Eph. 4.16 and giue effectuall power to euery p●rt to doe its office Yea he so farre doth these good offices for his Church as her Head that as the head cannot be taken from the body without the certaine death and ruine thereof so as it is well said without Christ the Church is nothing else but as a dead carkasse Thus Christ being the vndoubted Head of the Church we may be sure that that is the true Chruch whereof hee is the Head Secondly wee cannot bee assured that that is the true Church whereof the Pope is the head and that vpon these grounds First we haue no assurance that Iesus Christ requires a Deputy in this world to wit as Mediatour for wee know that a Deputy serueth to supply the absence of the principall whereas Christ is alwaies present by his word spirit Mat. 28.20 Ioh. 14 16. Totum Christi secu●●●m esse essent a●c Act. 3.21 Totu● Christus secundum ●s●● p●rson●e Act. 2● 28 Io●●●● If you say that he is absent in respect of bodily presence I confesse that if you respect the whole essence of Christ his body is in Heauen and the Heauens must containe him till his comming againe but if you doe respect the whole person of Christ of whom when the Scripture doth speak● it doth attribute that vnto whole Christ which is proper to either nature so we say that Christ is present with vs though his body be in Heauen because we are not without the blessed communion and fellowship of the diuine nature Neither to his sufficient presence doe we neede his body now for though the Kings body bee onely at the Court yet is he a sufficient head for gouernement vnder God of his whole Kingdomes as his body politike Secondly we cannot be sure if Christ were altogether absent that any man in the world by vertue of any coined diuine anointing is able to supply his place For though as God the Kings and Princes of the earth are his Deputies to see his lawes obserued and to execute his iudgements because he hath made them so yet as Mediatour and Head of the Church he hath none partly because he hath made none Heb. 7.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and partly because his office is such as passeth not from one to another For euery worke of a Mediatour is a compound worke issuing from two natures concurring in the same action as the carued worke of Aholiab and Bezaleel was the issue of their bodies and soules in which respect there is required a strength aboue any created power Thirdly because the Papists say that the Pope is not the head of the Church in such a soueraigne and principall manner as Christ but the Ministeriall Head ouer the whole Church vpon earth therefore I adde this that we cannot be sure that a deputation of any inferiour gouernment and ministery is put ouer to any one man whatsoeuer For there are three things which doe hinder our through perswasion in this point First that Christ doth reserue euen outward administration in his owne power For it is he which sendeth forth his word and spirit which hath ordained a ministery fitted Euangelists Pastors Doctors whence he is called the Arch-shepherd It is he who assisteth his ministery with power and hath prouided the trumpet and sword of the magistracy to call and to dissolue counsels to summon and to disparcle armie● to defend his Church so farre as it is good for her from Satan the liar by heresie and Satan the murtherer by persecution Therefore what need haue we of a ministeriall head Secondly that there is no ministeriall head but must worke ministerially that which the principall head doth principally For else it is but a rotten head such as the Wolfe found in the caruers shop without wit or braines But no mortall man nor Angell can doe that which Christ our head doth because the office of his headship is executed by two natures concurring in one person Christ as I said before Thirdly Christo s●cluso that then there should be a Lordlike power ouer the whole Church vpon earth out of Christ in some creature which cannot be For ye know what Paul saith There are many diuisions or diuersities of ministeries 1 Cor. 12.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or administrations but the same or one Lord. So that as it is with Kings who are neuer out of their kingdomes though there are diuers officers vnder them yet there is but one in whom there is Regall power and that is the king himselfe so in this kingdome of heauen vpon earth the Church I meane though there are diuers offices yet hee keepes the royalty in himselfe which if he haue put ouer vnto another it must either fasten vpon him sloth or at the least ease to put the burthen of gouernment vpon a weaker persons shoulders or it must make vs say that hee hath done a needlesse thing to make a substitute in his own presence to doe that which is impossible 4. Lastly if Iesus Christ were absent and it were possible that there could be a deputy yet wee cannot bee sure that the Pope is he And of this I shall giue you foure grounds of suspicion First because it standeth vpon improbable interpretations such as can neither arise properly nor figuratiuely such as cannot be deriued by any succession to confirme the doctrine which they now hold concerning their great head They say that God said to Peter Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my Church and to thee will I giue the keies of the kingdome of heauen and againe feede my sheepe Therefore they say he said to Peter as their new doctrine concludeth I make thee Vicar and

of the Priests Court and whoso was found perfect and fit was clothed in white and accounted worthy To what end should the care of God and man concurre in this if it were not necessary You haue learned how to apply deeper things I will therefore end this rule with that speech of Ierome to Nepotian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sors Talem se exhibere debet vi ipse possideat dominum pos ideatur a domino Ministers are therefore called Clergie-men either because they are the Lords lot or because the Lord is their lot and portion Now he which either is the Lords part or hath the Lord for his ought to carie himselfe that both hee may possesse the Lord and bee possessed of him The last rule which I would commend vnto you to be obserued that you may proue your selues to bee sent of God is to be in a readinesse to giue your Master an account of your seruice For this is an argument of faithfulnesse and faithfulnesse of a diuine Sender who before he sends can try the heart and reines Put case therefore that now yee heard that voice of God Arise ye dead and come to iudgement that now the earth did vomit vp her dead that Saint Peter stood vp with his conuerted Iewes and Paul with his Gentiles that Iohn came in with Asia Thomas India and Titus Creta What would ye doe What would ye do I say Could ye say Lord I tooke thy person vpon me to feed thy Sheep of conscience not of couetousnesse to build vp thy kingdome not to inlarge my owne praise and purse I haue walked before thee with an vpright heart in the middest of thine house and now Lord behold I am ready to giue thee an account of my sinceritie though not of my perfection If it be thus my Reuerend and beloued Brethren giue me your hands and let vs with comforts goe together and trade into heauen by prayer studie and meditation for the best commodities that in Gods stead we may enrich his people and present such as belong to him as chast Virgins to God in the day of Christ What shall I now say I will humbly beseech you to measure with loue what I haue said and to supply some of the defects in particulars with what I could say in the throng of my businesses in the Sermon following which I offer vnto your eyes as I haue for the most part vnto your eares at our last Visitation as ye freshly remember and with it I present you with the prayers of my heart that this my seruice may in this kind as it hath in another be accepted and also that it may some way be profitable to prouoke against all Antichristian abhominations So prayeth hee who desires euer to rest From my Studie this 9th of May 1625. Your faithfull fellow-helper in the haruest of CHRIST IESVS Robert Abbott DAVIDS DESIRES PSAL. 27.4 One thing haue I desired of the Lord that will I require that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his Temple WE haue often from this place This Sermon was preached at an Assise beene full fed and fatted with Sermons from Texts which haue put both Iudges and Iurers Lawyers Plaintiffes and Defendants in minde of such duties as God doth require at their hands If you will giue mee leaue this one time to digresse I shall striue to winde vp your hearts to heauen to kindle your affections to religion and religious duties knowing assuredly that if once we be good men we shall also be good Common-wealths men and doe nothing but that which is iust in the sight of God and Man We reade of the Bird of Paradise that shee hauing no legs neuer toucheth the earth but liueth in the aire with the vapors which arise from below till she dieth and then shee falleth to the ground and is discouered Many such birds of Paradise hath our God who though they sucke vpon earthly things for their necessarie releefe and maintenance yet haue their conuersation in heauen and are neuer discouered to be more earthly than when by death they are brought into the wombe and embracings of the earth their common mother Amongst the rest DAVID hath been famous in this kinde whose deuotions doe discouer such liuely graces such mortified lusts such a heauenly minde and such an anatomie of a good soule as the Psalmes are aptly called that as it was with Ierome when he had read the life and death of Hilarion he folded vp his booke and said Well Hilarion thou shalt be the Champion whom I will follow so it may be with vs when we reade the sweet precepts and godly patternes of deuotion in Dauid we may iustly cry out Well Dauid thou shalt be the champion whom we will follow Through the whole bodie of the Psalmes he hath discouered wonders in this kinde neither is this Psalme barren For ye may finde a threefold peece of deuotion in it The first is shewed by eleuation when by an exuberancie of speech he lifteth vp his heart and draweth it to cling close vnto God amid all his enemies Verse 1 2 3. as his light saluation and strength The second is shewed by admiration when he draweth his heart from all the world to loue those meanes wherein God doth communicate himselfe vnto vs. Verse 4 5 6. The third is shewed by petition whereby he draweth his heart to rest vpon God to be vnto him as he had said and to doe vnto him as he had desired Verse 7 8 c. We haue to doe you see with the second discouery of DAVIDS deuotion that is his admiration secretly implied in the frame of his whole speech Wherein by the heauenly disposition of his desires hee doth shew his dependance vpon God in his ordinarie course of offering grace For whereas the soules of men are considered either according to their vnderstandings or according to their desires and appetites reasonable sensitiue DAVID hauing exercised his vnderstanding in the beholding of God as he was to him and as he would be to his enemies doth here exercise his desires to Gods house Touching which desires these three things offer themselues to our consideration 1. The office of his desires which is shewed in two things 1. The first is their choise One thing haue I desired They chose one thing aboue the rest 2. The second is their constancie That will I seeke He doth prosecute his desires and will not let them vanish to no purpose 2. The obiect of his desires The house of God There was nothing after which his heart panted more eagerly than Gods house 3. The motiues of his desires which are two 1. The worth of Gods house in it selfe Beauty amenitie or sweet and amiable presentment which it offereth and holdeth out to the godly view 2. The worth of Gods house to DAVID To inquire in his