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A00286 Certaine aduertisements for the good of the church and common-wealth well worthy the serious consideration of the most honourable High Court of Parliament late assembled, and hereafter to be assembled againe. 1624 (1624) STC 10404; ESTC S101634 62,874 84

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to be still maintained by some great Prelates euen Bishops is the greater sinne because we haue sent some Diuines to the last Synod at Dort for suppressing the same By these how may future Ages be feared to be corrupted And how shall such actuall and mentall sinnes be restrained How shall all vertue and righteousnesse flourish Pro. 14.16 and 22.3 Pro. 29.18 How shall men be prudent to hide themselues from euils to come but by the preaching of the word Doe not the People perish where there is no Vision Though humaine policie and carnall wisedome by carnall and Machiuilian men for State matters and preuenting of euils to come be as much magnified as it were adored Act. 8.11 and 19.28 Rom. 8.6 7 Ierem. 8.9 Eph. 5.17 as Simon Magus in Samaria and Diana in Ephesus yet all true Christians know such wisedome to be death to men and enmitie to God and no wisedome at all yea meere foolishnesse and no better then madnesse Yea it is the best policie to maintaine and support such Ministers as being not onely faithfull and loyall Subiects themselues but also the teachers of all other to be and the Chariots and Horsemen of the Kingdome 2 Kin. 2.12 and 13.14 For certainly howsoeuer they be lightly esteemed by their aduersaries yet they cannot be denied to haue done much good by their Ministerie yea many of their aduersaries I doubt not will acknowledge it The Congregations ouer which they haue beene set and many other cannot but confesse it I dare also boldly say that many of your Christian Court to which I direct these my Aduertisements will testifie it for themseues for their Children for their Seruants I thinke also I may safely say that his most excellent Maiestie will grant those Princely graces wherewith God hath enriched beautified his Royall heart to haue beene especially wrought by such Ministers in his Kingdome of Scotland as now are pleaded for rather then by such as doe most oppugne them Laban and Nabal were both Birds of a Feather and Brethren as it were in euill of the same conditions Laban and Nabal like to two Raine-bowes representing one another in colour the one by reflection hauing the same that the other as the Letters of the one backward make the name of the other forward yet the example of the one himselfe and of the Seruants of the other may prouoke all true hearted Christians to respect the slate of the Ministers before mentioned and to doe what may be for them especially for the better libertie of their Ministerie Laban seeing the Iewels Earings and Bracelets which the Seruant of Abraham had giuen to Rebecca in behalfe of his Masters Sonne Isaack the better to win her loue to be wife vnto him Gen. 24.31 spake thus to the said Seruant Come in thou blessed of the Lord Wherefore standest thou without For I haue prepared the house and roome for the Camels How much more then should any in any place of authoritie and that haue both seene and also receiued the heauenly Earings and Bracelets that those Ministers as the Lords Seruants haue bestowed vpon them and theirs to win them to Christ and to make them fit for Christ labour to bring such Ministers in againe whom others haue cast out with their Wiues and Children And that as those whom the Lord hath blessed and made Instruments likewise to make others blessed The Seruants likewise of Nabal hauing heard the churlish currish and clownish words of their Master to Dauids Seruants sent for some reliefe vnto him reporting the same to their Mistresse pleaded also for Dauid 1 Sam. 25. ●5 16. and for his Seruants saying they had beene verie good vnto them so long as they had been conuersant with them when they were in the Fields yea that they had been a wall vnto them by day and by night to defend them all the while they had beene with them keeping Sheepe How much more then may the Ministers hitherto spoken of be pleaded for in respect that they haue neuer in truth done any hurt vnto any with whom they haue beene conuersant but haue beene a wall vnto them for their defence against principallities and powers putting into their hands yea into their hearts the Sword of the Spirit Eph. 6.17 the Word of God and furnishing them instrumentally with all other parts of the Christian Armour Yea touching Nabal himselfe though he were so hard and vngratefull towards Dauid yet to his owne Sheepe-shearers he made a great Feast a royall Feast 1 Sam. 25.36 a feast like a King Is it not therefore the more lamentable that they should be so hardly dealt with and brought to a morsell of Bread Ioh. 6.27 that haue ministred vnto men the meat that perisheth not but abideth to eternall Life And that haue made a Feast to the Princes of the great King of Heauen and Earth not of an hundreth and foure skore dayes only like to the most royall Feast of Ahashuerosh or of Belshazzar Est 1.3 Dan. 5.3 or of any other such Monarch but an euerlasting Feast according to the nature of himselfe whose Feast it was With the former may be considered the great kindnesse that Pharao shewed to Ioseph and his Father and Brethren Gen 41 3● and 47.5 for the Interpretation of his Dreames For haue not the Ministers restrained depriued c. Interpreted as great Mysteries concerning eternall Saluation as Pharaoh's Dreames were for the preuenting of the bodily Famine The like may be said of Dauid's princely grace to Barzillai for his small kindnesse towards him when he fled from Absalon which notwithstandind as a Subiect he was bound in dutie to haue performed and vpon his death bed giuen in charge to be remembred by Salomon to the Sonnes of the said Barzillai after the death of Dauid 2 Sam. 19.31.33 1 Kin. 2.17 2 Kin. 3.15 The great bountie also offered by Naaman the Syrian vnto Elisha for directing him to doe that whereby he was cured of his bobily Leprosie may here be well remembred The particular application of both which examples I leaue to your wise considerations It is not also vnworthy your most Honourable and Christian Court to consider Many conformable Ministers wish the remoue of the Ceremonies that many conformable Ministers submitting themselues to subscription and conformitie by the seueritie of other because otherwise they can haue neither imploiment of their gifts nor maintenance would be as glad of the remouing the things now hindring the free passage of the Gospel as the Ministers silenced and otherwise molested For though they yeeld for the reasons premised and in a desire to doe good yet they are of the same mind that other are of and would testifie the same vpon assurance they might so doe without preiudice to themselues Ioh. 12.42 As many among the chiefe Rulers of the Iewes beleeued in Christ but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him