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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36980	The true and absolute bishop with the converts returne unto him : wherein is also shewed how Christ is our only shepheard, as well as our truest bishop : and also, how lamentable and miserable the condition of those men doth appeare to bee, which are out of Christs fold, out of Christs diocesse / by Nicolas Darton ...	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1641 (1641)	Wing D273; ESTC R10864	47,823	62

The True and Absolute BISHOP With the Converts returne unto Him Wherein is also shevved hovv CHRIST is our only SHEPHEARD As well as our truest BISHOP And also how lamentable and miserable the condition of those Men doth appeare to bee which are out of CHRISTS Fold Or out of CHRISTS DIOCESSE By NICOLAS DARTON Minister of GODS Word at KILLESBIE in NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE HEBR. 7. Ver. 26. For such an High Priest became us who is holy harmelesse undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the Heavens LONDON Printed by Tho. Badger for Humphrey Mosley and are to bee sold at his Shop at the PRINCES Armes in Saint PAULS CHVRCH-YARD 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE and every way RELIGIOVS LORD WILLIAM Viscount SAY and SEALE Master of his Majesties Court of Wards and Liveries an especiall Member for God Glory and Great Britaines safety amongst the Right Honourable Lords in the High Court of Parliament now ass mbled And one of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell Much Honoured LORD LEt the blisfull streames of Gods eternall mercies run plentifully through all your Parliamentary designes and others else to make you as truly prosperous in your Acts of State as Religious in your intentions for Piety that 's my desire for you The next for my selfe is this that some drop of your Honours favour and Clemencie how little soever may through your Honourable acceptance of this my small tender fall on me to make me as truly happy in the enioyment of so great a Patronage as I am forward in the dedication of the same unto your Honour True it is you may wonder I beg thus bold for the latter especially being that I am so farre remote from your Honours knowledge but to speak iustly there 's no iust cause of marvaile for though I am a stranger to your Person I am not to your vertuous practises which make our Hemisphere of Great Brittaine with admiration to be acquainted with you The booke I confesse is not worthy your iudicious eye nor reading but the Bishop in it I am confident you love with all your heart straying sheep I have heard your desire is should returne to the fold imitating here our great Shepheard that makes welcome all the Flock that come VVhat you finde amisse in the handling of the propounded subject which is good let your love to goodnes pardon and what otherwise in the rash attempt of so bold an adventure as this upon your goodnesse is let your wounted mildnesse passe by Greatnesse in you I beleeve is as pardonfull as your goodnesse for O how sweetly in you may both Church and State see how they goe hand in hand together I dare not speake all I beleeve of your almost unparallell'd pietie t is enough for me to see it and to heare it abroad but for feare of suspition of unpleasing flattery to your selfe I dare not speake VVhat now is to bee spoken for the present on my behalfe hath an eye upon your mercy that you would vouchsafe the same though undeserved upon the worke and Author So shall I that am but even the smallest of Christs ministry be encouraged in the painefull worke of the Lord and endeavour daily if not more to bring Goates haire by no means lesse to the building of Gods Temple continually morne and evening as long as I have a day to live praying heartily to the eternal Trinity for you and yours that an encrease of true honours welfare may abound on your Honourable selfe Your truly vertuous and Religious Lady and hopefull Progenie here and that an immortall Crowne of endlesse glory with the communion of Saints through Iesus Christ may be your eternall inheritance hereafter Your Honours Servant in all Humlitie most devoted NICOLAS DARTON The Epistle to the Reader COurteous and Christian Reader if the Title Page do please thee as perchance it may I am confident then that the ensuing Treatise will not distaste at all because it tenders thee a salve for thy sores and a remedy for thy straying thoughts Should now the word Episcopacy draw a dislike upon thine affections or like a blacke cloud darken thine impartiall esteeme hereof it is to be feared then for the present that all is not well within thee for here thou hast the absolutest the truest and the most perfect Bishop that ever was in all the Christian world whose Diocesse also is from one end of the earth unto the other and from the Sea unto the worlds end This is the Metropolitan that governes Heavens Universe and whose See as it is without all contradiction Universall so in like manner is his EPISCOPACIE in all points uncontroleable This is hee that was called from the Wombe hereunto and from the bowels of his mother Isa 49.1 Zach. 3.8 Mal. 3.1 unto whom all the Yles must listen and eke the people from farre who is the branch of the Lord and the messenger of the Covenant who is like a refiners fire and like Fullers sope and will purifie the sons of LEVI meaning all the Ministers of his Word and Sacraments by what names or titles soever they be called and will purge them as Gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousnes I write not this now to barke at or to bite at any in the world for that Hostile and scurrilous humour both against Gods sacred house and Englands Kirk I leave to our brawling and rayling tongues wherewithall our times abound alasse and thrice alasse too too much in every street and corner nay I had almost said in every part and place so that should not the right honourable and blessed Parliament out of their heavenly dispositions forthwith silence the contumelious affronts with irrevocable censures of such black-mouthed Sanballats as without all question the plenitude ●f their gracious judgement and undoubted religious goodnesse will challenge the care hereof both Zion then and all her sonnes may sit downe in the dust and weepe But I write this scribendo proficere proficiendo scribere to satifie the ingenuous reader with some notions of a right and absolute Bishop and that upon his benefit and good liking I my selfe may receive some comfort As for the matter here debated before thine eyes though it doe not come unto thee in the beautifull and gracefull habit of excellent and learned rhetoricke yet mayest thou finde therein many an wholesome expression both for thy soules health and lifes amendment I desire thus much that as thou doest not receive it with the reverence of a Father so that thou wouldst not reject it as the raveries of a child for Apollo yeelded Oracles as well to poore men for their prayers as to Princes for their presents If thou hast bin a stragler from the flock and fold of Christ here are discoveries for to enforme thy conscience and such demonstrative Characters to certifie thee of thy soules state and condition in that particular as that thou canst not unlesse meerely blinded

because the Sonne of God was plagued for thy sinnes Rom. 4.25 Secondly because hee was delivered to Death for thy sins Thirdly Because he was sacrificed as a Passeover for thy sins 1 Cor. 5.7 Fourthly Because hee was made a curse for thy sins that thou mightest bee made the righteousnesse of God in him Gal. 3.13 Lastly Because he hath taken all thy sinnes with the hand-writing that was against thee and hath nayld them to his Crosse Col. 2.14 Yea to conclude all in a word ô be not dismaid then by no manner of meanes in the world for though thou canst not speake for thy selfe 1 Iohn 2.1 2. 1 Tim. 1.15 The third and last encouragement why we should not dispaire though wee have been a long time out of the fold of Christ yet thou hast an advocate in Heaven that will speake for thee even Iesus Christ the righteous and hee is the propitiation and sacrifice for all thy sinnes Yea thou mayest say with St. Paul namely that it is a true saying and worthy of all men to be believed that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom thou art chiefe The last encouragement why thou shouldst not dispaire though thou hast gone astray from the fold of Christ like a lost sheepe is taken from the free welcome which thou shalt have at the fathers hands when with hearty repentance thou dost returne againe Oh remember remember the welcome of the Prodigall recorded in the Parable as soone as hee returnes to his father from his wandring errors First the best Robe is called for to be put upon him Next The Father calls for a Ring to put upon his hand Thirdly for shooes to put upon his feete Fourthly and lastly for the satted Calfe to bee killed for him that so they might solace themselves and eate and bee merry For applications sake ô know that such nay a greater welcome hath the penitent sinner at our heavenly fathers hands when with the Prodigall hee returnes in penitency unto the fold againe for first the best Robe is put upon him even the Robe of CHRISTS Righteousnesse Secondly instead of a Ring and shooes and the fatted Calfe he hath a kingdome assured him and therefore our Saviour saith feare not yee little flocke it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a kingdome Luk. 15.10 Lastly for mirth and joy the very Angels witnesse it joying and rejoycing at the straying sheepes returne and therefore for conclusion of all and to end this point in a word I would intreat all in the feare of God and for the salvation of their owne soules that for many yeares together have any way erred from the fold of CHRIST for to performe now the taske that our Saviour doth enjoyne his Spouse saying Returne returne ô Shulamite Cant. 6.13 returne returne that we may look upon thee And thus much be briefly spoken for the first estate of Saint Peters Auditors which we call'd their preterit estate in sinne Now followes their present condition their present estate in grace specified in these words following but are now returned unto the Shepheard and Bishop of your soules IN this their estate of grace we are to consider two materiall points First their action in the word returned but are now returned c. Secondly their object the object of their action and that is our blessed Saviour set forth here by two Appellations or titles 1. SHEPHEARD 2. BISHOP As we reade in the next words viz. Vnto the Shepheard and Bishop of your soules As for the action that teacheth us what wee must doe and as for the object that teacheth us to whom wee must so returne First againe for the actions that we must observe is to be performed in the practice of two particulars First in our aversion from sinne Secondly in conversion unto God In our aversion from sinne wee are to observe terminum a quo 1. the matter from which we are to turne viz. from the region and land of darkenesse and shadow of death in our conversion unto God we are to observe terminum ad quem namely the fountaine and well spring of life to the which we must bend all our course Jsa 9.2 and that is to the great shepheard and Bishop of our soules We will not speake here touching the first particular namly our aversion from sinne because we are to handle it shortly in another treatise come we therefore briefly to the second namely our conversion and returne to God or as the Text saith to the Shepheard and Bishop of our soules But are now returned c. And happie ô thrice happie were all wee in this world might this heavenly action and practice of Saint Peters assembly be as truly and as really verified of us as it was of them But alasse alasse our times are such and men now adayes so averse from Pietie as that we may say with the Prophet hee that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey yea glomerantur in unum innumerae pestes erebi The mischiefes of hell are got to one Croude and we God wot are scarce free from them Yea and the Prophet Isaiahs reproofe may justly bee cast in our teeth viz. Ah sinfull Nation a people laden with iniquitie Jsa 1 4. a seed of evill doers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the holy One of Israel unto anger they are gone away backward Nay the Poets out-cry may most truly cry downe our corruptions saying Vivitur ex rapto non hospes ab hospite tutus Non s●cer a genero fratrum quoque gratia rara est Imminet exitio vir conjugis illa mariti Lurida terribiles miscent aconita Noverca Filius ante di●m Patrios inquirit in annos Victa jacet Pietas virgo caede Madentes Vltima coelestum terras Astraea reliquit Rom. 3.12 Which words of the Poet are concordant with the Apostle to wit they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one But now to alter the course of these mens sinfull conversations whose wayes are the wayes of death and whose steps goe downe quicke into hell Certaine Motives to move men to returne to the fold againe I would desire them in the feare of God and for their more speedy conversion and returning unto the great Shepheard and Bishop of their soules to entertaine into their considerations these certaine motives which like piercing Goades are able to make to stirre even a very heart of flint The first motive The first Motive why we should speedily bethink our selves of turning the Card of our affections and of returning to our blessed Saviour and his fold againe is taken from Gods infinite love most marvellouslie shewed this kingdome from time to time Oh my deare brethren Mi●ah 6.4 hath not God with a mightie hand brought us out of the land of Aegypt and redeemed us out