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A discourse on the offices for the Vth of November, XXXth of January, and XXIXth of May by Thomas Comber ...
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Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
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patiently A Heathen Slave would do as much as this and more (a) Indigna digna habenda sunt heruâ— quae facit Plaut cap. IV. Act. 2. Se. 1. But if when ye do well and for all this under an unjust and cruel Master suffer for it yet still ye take it patiently and submit this is acceptable with God because this cannot be done for such a Masters sake but purely in respect to Gods Command which you dare not disobey Ver. XXI And to encourage you to so hard a Duty consider this is suitable to your Christian Profession For even hereunto were ye called when you were converted to follow our Saviours Example and we may well bear some evils for his sake because Christ also suffered all sorts of Injuries Ill-usage and Death it self for us not only thereby satisfying Gods Justice for our Sins but leaving us an example also that ye and all Christians when you suffer unjustly should follow his steps and take even that patiently as he did Ver. XXII 'T is certain he suffered for no fault of his own who did no evil deed to any Man in his whole Life neither was any one evil Word of Falshood Malice or guile found in his mouth Wherefore if we would imitate him we must first be so innocent as to deserve no Sufferings yet if they who have Power over us will for all that afflict us our next care must be to bear it patiently till God find out a way to deliver us The Gospel St. Mat. XXI 33 41. § 9. THis Parable directly points at the Scribes and Pharisees who had rejected and slain divers of the Prophets and were designing to murder Christ himself but by way of accommodation it taxes our vile Regicides For their Lord had taken all due care of this Land and trusted divers of these his Subjects in the Administration of his Government expecting nothing but the just Rights and Prerogatives of his Crown But these they deny him and reject his Commissioners who came to treat with them Yea slew many of his faithful Servants in open War and at last seize his Crown murder him and banish his Heir making themselves Lords of his Kingdoms Now if these be ever recovered again we may appeal to all mankind whether they deserve not both to be deprived of their usurped Power for their Injustice and of their Lives for the Innocent Blood they spilt All but the Guilty will own this to be Just This Gospel sets out Inferiours highly injuring their Lord and shews 1st The nature of their Sin aggravated by 1. The equity of the Lord. 1. His care of the Vineyard Ver. 33. 2. His compact with them Ver. 33. 3. His fair demands Ver. 34. 2. The iniquity of the Servants 1. Beating and killing their Lords Messengers Ver. 35 36. 2. Killing the Heir and Ver. 37 38 39. 3. Seizing the Vineyard Ver. 37 38 39. 2ly The measure of their Punishment 1. Enquired of by appeal to the Guilty Ver. 40. 2. Determined by the very Criminals Ver. 41. A Paraphrase on this Gospel Ver. XXXIII THE Injustice and Cruelty of Inferiors wronging and seeking to destroy their Superiors may appear by this Parable There was a certain housholder oâ— Chief Lord that is God the Father who planted a vineyard the Land of Canaan and hedged it round about by Laws of his own appointing whereby the Jews were distinguished from all other People and digged a wine-presâ—â— that is founded a Temple for his True Worship in it and built a Tower that is he took it into his specialâ— Protection and let it out to husbandmen to the Jews to cultivate on condition they should pay an Obedience unto his Laws and went into a far Country that is seemed to retire to Heaven XXXIV And when the time of gathering and pressing the fruit drew near at the Vintage according to the Covenant he sent his servants the first and eldest Prophets to the husbandmen pressing them for the Benefits they had by the Vineyard and the Protection their Lord gave them to make good their promised Obedience that they might receive the Portion due to their Lord out of the fruits of it and give their Master an account Ver. XXXV And the husbandmen were so wicked that instead of paying their Lord the homage and services due to him they took his servants by violence and beat one cruelly even Jeremiah and killed another that is Isaiah by sawing him asunder and stoned another Zechariah the Son of Barachiah Ver. XXXVI Yet their Lord was so Gentle and Patient that he resolved to try Again and therefore he sent on the same Errand other servants raised up other Prophets mo then the first in number to have more witnesses of their Repentance or evidence of their Crimes and they did unto them in the same manner killing and beating likewise as they had done to the former Messengers Ver. XXXVII However the Lord was not yet wholly discouraged But last of all as the only means left to prevail on them and the final Experiment that could be made he sent unto them his Son even Jesus Christ to press them to Repent and keep his Laws and their own Engagements rationally concluding and saying within himself surely they will reverence my Son and he will persuade them to do me right Ver. XXXVIII But it proved otherwise for when the husbandmen saw the Son instead of believing his Miracles reverencing his Person and obeying his Message They said among themselves in their secret and bloody Consults This is the heir who claims a right to this Vineyard which we intend to make our selves Masters of come let us kill him by a violent Death and let us then declare our selves free from all subjection and seize on his inheritance which we cannot be quiet in so long as he lives Ver. XXXIX Nor did they only plot but execute this Cruelty for they hired one of his Servants to betray him and they caught him first by Craft and cast him out of the vineyard by open force renouncing him and his Authority and at last they most unjustly condemned him and slew him barbarously Ver. XL. But such flagrant Crimes cannot be long unpunished When therefore the Lord of the vineyard who is Immortal and very Just cometh by his special Providence to enquire into these horrid Practices I appeal even to you Jews your selves and ask you what will he do think you and what ought he to do unto those husbandmen who had been so obstinate in their Injustice and so daring in their Cruelty Ver. XLI They say unto him convinced by the notoriousness of the Provocation but not perceiving themselves to be the Criminals Doubtless he will as in justice and honour he is bound condemn cut off and miserably destroy those wicked men who had been guilty of so much Blood Robbery and Oppression and will let out his vineyard for the future to other husbandmen which will be just to him and respective