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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

And also in distributing of Rewards amongst them Ephes 1. 4.1.2 Towards his Enemies confounding their Projects holding up his kingdome in the midst of their malice 2. Their Persons so that not an enemy was left unsubdued Not Sin 1 Cor. 15.17 Not Death 1 Cor. 15.54 Nor Hell Revel 1.18 Nor Satan Colos 2 15. Nor the World Ioh. 16.33 Vse 1 The Use of this is first to informe us of the worth of the soule and the excellency of Salvation Were it not a rate and a pretious thing would Gods owne Son have come downe from Heaven and himselfe personally tooke the care therof Had it not bin of great worth would he ever have undertaken such a peculiar charge 1 Pet. 1.10 And yet we neglect so great Salvation We have a care to preserve a plant from withering a beast from perishing a body from dying and count of them who have care and skill this way but who esteemes or accounts of that care which keeps a soule from damning The more grace we have the more shall we be taken up with the contemplation of this subject and with the continuall study and care after it Vse 2 It should teach us dependancy upon Christ for life and for Salvation Paul was not ashamed of Persecutions 2 Tim. 1. because he knew whom he had beleeved he doubted neither of his care nor power and therfore committed his soule unto him against the last day when all forsook him 2 Tim. 4.16 17 18. And surely want of consideration of the care of God and Christ is the ground of all diffidence Math. 6. Why do men trust in themselves and friends but because they rest assured of their care and good-will towards them Did men rest assured of the care of Christ and compare his affections with other succours they would rather choose to build their hopes and assurances on him hence it is that Saint Peter useth this as an argument Cast your care upon him quoniam ipse cura est de vobis for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5.7 A right Judgement of Christ would help us to imploy our Faith in any condition whatsoever be it never so hard as 1 Sam. 26.10 11. While David had Faith in Gods Providence he could say of Saul The Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to dye or he shall descend into the battaile and perish Absit mihi a Iehovah God forbi that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lords annoynted But when he once began to doubt of Gods care and providence then he said Tandem absumar die unaper manum Saulis Surely I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul 1 Sam. 27.1 See therfore that we get Faith in Gods Providence as well as in his Promise and feare not any of our adversaries or their malitious practise against us they shall never hinder us of salvation Psal 23. None shall be lost that are under his hand Ioh. 10.29 It is Gods command that he which hath received a calling should waite upon his calling Go then boldly to Christ thou that art of a drooping spirit beseech him to continue his care over thy poore soule It is of his fold beseech him not be absent when the woolfe commeth Be not thou wanting to thy selfe and rest assured he will no way be wanting unto thee 1 Pet. 1.13 Object But I am weake my sinnes are many How should he take care of such a wretch as I am Resp What was in this wounded man to move this good Samaritane to take this care of him but compassion in himselfe and misery in the object This is it that puts on Christ and causeth him as it were to turne Projector which way to shew mercy and do good So Hos 11.8 The Lord there sets himselfe to study and contrive mercy for his people gathering together his thoughts of mercy to conquer their sinnes which they in pride as it were did set up to pose his Covenant Object But though he hath taken this tender care of the Salvation of poore sinners will hee doe so still Resp He is Iesus Christ heri hodiè Yesterday and to day and the same for ever Heb. 13.8 there is constancy and continuance in this his care his mercies endure his compassions faile not Object But he is now in Heaven how then can he take care Resp He is so but there he is our Advocate and practising for us in that Court Secondly he hath made preparations and provisions for the future for us And on the morrow when he departed Text. c. Vers 35 This good Samaritane could make no long stay upon the Earth but as he tooke care of his Patient while be was present with him so now being to depart he commends him to the care of the Hoast with whom he leaves mony to supply that distressed mans necessities and withall gives speciall charge that he be well lookt unto promising to pay at his returne what ever above that he left should be laid out And on the morrow Text. Prima dies suit dies passionis altera resurrectionis Quis est ille alter dies nisi for te ille dominicae r●surrectionis de quo d●ctum est hic est dies quem secit Dominus Ambr. in loc To handle the words as they lye in order The time when he departed is here expressed It was no long stay he made in this same Inn So soone as conveniently he might he departed thence From the History first observe Victualing houses are not for residence of Travellers guests are to make no longer stay at such houses than urgent occasion requires with the spies in the morning they must be gone at furthest Iosh 2 Doct. Such then as sit from morning to night from day to day yea from weeks end to weeks end tipling and gaming turne the lawfull use of Ins into abuse Vse To prevent which officers should make conscience of their duties and see that such disorders be reformed we having the edge of the sword of Justice backt by laws and wholsome statutes So the poore that are would be better provided for in most Parishes and the increase of poore much abated if the penalties imposed on such disordered persons by the Statute were duely required and inflicted Myst Mystically the departure of this Samaritane from the Inn teacheth us Doct. That this world was no place for Christs aboade longer then while he had finished his worke So soone as his businesse was over Christ made no longer stay upon earth then needs must he departed hence on the morrow as it were and tarried not Ioh. 13.33 14.3.4 16 7 8. Luk. 24.5 6. Act. 1.9 10. Reason For 1. His Kingdome was not of this world as he himselfe avoucheth 2. He had businesse else where Ioh. 16.7 It was expedient that he left the Church on Earth in regard of carnall presence and that for us not for himselfe first to open Heaven for us Heb. 10.19 Ioh.

her selfe with a heap of gaudy Cerimonies which they obtrude upon the people as principall parts of Gods service yea worship them and bind mens consciences unto them on pain of damnation and so fall under Austins censure digging into the graves of the dead for putrified and rotten reliques The Morall part of the Law is that which prescribes the rule of a godly and upright life being divided into two Tables the former concerning God the other our Neighbour Now this Law in Consideration of the Elect is abolished by the comming of Christ and that both Quoad damnandi vim as Rom. 8.1 and Quoad dominandi vim as Rom. 6.14 Notwithstanding this It hath the office of a Schoolemaster Gal. 3.24 Now the office of a Schoolemaster is double Dirigere Corrigere Arctius So the Law directs and corrects By feare of punishment it keeps under the Old-man the remnants wherof are yet in the best and it directs and instructs the new man in the waies of God The Law sends the Elect to Christ to be saved and Christ sends us back again to the Law to learn Obedience In consideration of Vnbeleevers and Impenitent ones this Law is no way abolished It seemeth to convince them and condemne them without all hope of mercy as for the other two profitable Uses it is no whit availeable unto them through their own default The Antinomians then who take away all use of the Law may see their folly Christ met with none on the mount in his Glory but Moses and Elias the Law giver and the Law-restorer to shew that he did not only come to fullfill the Law and institute the Gospell but even to reconcile the Law and the Gospell We must obey what God commanded by Moses and what we cannot performe is supplied to us by our Beliefe in IESVS Luke 16.16 Object The Law and the Prophets were till Iohn why should we now have to deale with it Resp They were untill Iohn as a Preparation and Prediction of Christs comming He being come that Preparation and Prediction is ended but still both Law and Prophets do remain both to confirme us in the Faith of Christ and direct us in the way to Christ Therfore Malachi the last of the Prophets in the very point of his passage towards the prediction of Christ and of Iohn the Baptist seales up the Old Testament in his last Chapter with Remember yee the Law of Moses my Servant A man may not forget his Schoole-master because he hath learned his lesson And to this we have a harmony of the Confession of all Christian Churches Helvet Confes Artic. 12. Gallica Confes Artic. 23. Aug. Confes Pag. 127. Scot. Art 15. Belg. Con. Art 25. Argentivensis Conf. cap. 12. August Conf. Art 6. Vse 2 If it be so that the Law hath its Passe stay it not by the way Seek not for life and Justification where it is not to be had The Law can looke upon you and further exasperat as this Priest and Levite did but it can do no more thanke it for this and welcome Christ But if you look for Salvation by the Law Christ shall profit you nothing The lower the Sunne is the higher is your shadow and the higher it goes the shorter the shadow is Whilst the Sunne is before you the shadow is behind you and you see it not but turne your back upon it and you see nothing but shadowes So whilst you look on Christ you will set by the Law of Ceremonies but if you turne your backes upon him Vmbra rerum will be your ruine Abrogation is a plausible doctrine in popular estates Proclamations concerning immunities from Tributes is wonderfully well taken such should this Doctrin in Divinity be It is one of the great gifts and endowments bestowed by God on his Church we should therfore joyfully entertain it and stand fast in that liberty wherwith Christ hath made us free Gal. 5.1 Onely take we heed that we abuse not our liberty and we abuse it when we use it as a Cloake of maliciousnesse 1 Pet. 2.16 when we plead it for a defence of sin but we are made free from sin that we may be the servants of righteousnesse Rom. 6.18 Secondly when under pretence of Christian libertie we refuse to obey authority in things of an indifferent nature 1 Pet. 2.16 1 Pet. 2.16 The objection seems to be this in hand We are freed might some say from Ceremonies or Ordinances in things indifferent The Apostle answers that our liberty should not be made a Cloake for our ill affectednesse towards authority for the Law of God must still direct and that wills us to honour our Magistrates and in what more then in obeying in such things as are indifferent And so much for the first part of this Parable proceed wee But a certaine Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was c. Text. Vers 33. The Priest and Levite passe by without shewing any compassion A third man comes and he a Samaritane who shews him mercy By the way learn Doct. The most want mercy For one that shews it two shew it not 1 King 19. Rom. 11.3 Ieremy 3.16 Isay 57.1 Hosea 4.1 Amos 8.6 Psalme 12.1 2 Tim. 3.2 Reason And no marvell seeing there are so few righteous Isay 57.1 Iniquity abounds therfore the love of many waxeth cold And few there are that have tasted of Gods Mercy in Christ Secondly those who were are not God hath housed them before the storm comes They are taken away from future evills Isa 57 1. Vse Shall not the Land then tremble for this and every one mourne that dwells therein Amos 8.8 There was a Church called Philodelphia brotherly love but where may it now be found Run ye Ier. 3.1 go to and fro through the Streets of our Hierusalem see now and know and seeke in the broad places thereof if you can find a man if there be any that sheweth Mercy that succoreth the needy and I will pardon The Common-wealth takes up the same complaint whilst those that should bee Eyes to the blinde Iob 24.15 pluck out their Brethrens eyes and make them blind whilst they grinde their faces who should cheare them and robb them of their garments who should cloath them Mich. 3.2 Where is Mercy Whilst there are almost as many Nimrods as Great ones and Tyrants as Land-lords whilst Rich men eat up the Poores Commons and take away the bread that belongs to children giving it to Dogs to Kites that they may be stuffed up and gorged in their mews whilst Christ Iesus in his distressed members hath his face withered back naked c. Where is Mercy Whilst men turne bread into stones A trick beyond the Divell selling good land to build fine houses turning the smoake that ascended the Chimnies of their fore-Fathers relieving edifices through their own nostrils Whilst there is so much Pride so little Pity great Feasts little Charity huge Barns small Alms c

observe all things Phil. 4.8 Whatsoever things c. 2 Cor. 8.7 In every thing 2 Thes 2.17 both word and workes See then thou gettest into thy soule the conscience of every Commandement Legall Evangelicall and keep thy self in a readines to the duty within the compasse of thy Calling and ability Likewise Text. Not as the Levit and Priest but as the good Samaritane did so do thou Whence we learn first Doct. Examples are Instructions God teacheth as well by them as by Precepts Mat. 5.12 chap. 12. Hence it is that Scripture is so stored with Examples of all sorts we may reduce them to two heads Such as concerne God or man Those that concern God respect either his Iustice or his Mercy Examples of his Iustice are written for our profit 1 Cor. 10.11 2 Pet. 2.6 Luk. 17.32 So also those that are of Mercie Psalme 32 6. Iam. 5.11 Examples of Men are either of Saints or Sinners if of Saints then either of Virtue or of Vice the one sort is propounded for imitation as Rom. 4.22 23. Mat. 12.42 The other for Caution being set up as Rocks in a Map to be avoided Examples of the wicked these must likewise teach See Mat. 12 41. 1 Cor 10.6 7 8. Reason The Reason is evident Rom. 15.4 If every thing written be written for our learning then Examples questionlesse Scriptae sunt etiam ruinae priorum ad cautelam posteriorum Ardeus Vse 1 First Take notice of Gods goodnesse to us in providing so many helps for us necessary to Salvation Two Senses there are of learning seeing hearing Neither of these you see are without meanes of Instruction To our sight he hath laid open the book of the Scriptures and the great book of the creatures wherin we may read his Power Wisdome Justice Mercy he hath both described a way to life and set up leaders and guides in that way Not a vertue commended not a vice forbidden but God hath exemplified in some patterne both for the better direction of the faithfull and greater condemnation of the wicked An help it is to have a coppy but a greater help to see the Master make the letter Vse 2 Let us learne by Examples Iob 8.7 and not sleightly passe over those recorded in the Word and daily brought to light as we do strange Countries in a Map but so read and observe as if we did see acted before our eyes what in Scripture is recorded to have bin done by or befallen others Good Examples of the Saints God sets up like lights to direct us in the way of Piety Thou hast a good Neighbour by thee a godly man dwelling neare thee thou shouldest be better by him and profit by his Example as the contempt of the Word so the contempt of Example makes us liable to Gods wrath Object But say he is an ill one Resp Something must be learned notwithstanding How often in Scriptures are the Examples of Heathens in some actions propounded for Instruction If Good to shame and provoke us Ier. 2.11 Mal. 3.8 1 Cor. 5.1 If Bad to worke detestation in us Deut 18.9 Ephes 4.17 Something still must be learned out of the sinners Schoole As Cato senior did sometimes say Wisemen have more to learne of fooles then fooles of wisemen Secondly we learn hence Doct. 2 It was not the Priest and Levite he must imitate but the Samaritane Hence the Example of Angells is propounded Mat. 6. And of the Saints Iam. 5.10 Heb. 11. 12.1 1 Thes 1.6 Phil 3.17 yea of Christ himselfe Heb. 12 2. 1 Pet. 2.21 Ephes 5.2 nor would Paul himselfe be followed further then he was a follower of Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 Reason They are least faulty now every fault in a set coppy is important and may prove a rule of error Vse 1 This condemnes such as still are following the worst they can imitate none but such as have beene gracelesse The complaint in Seneca well suites the times Men commonly live not ad rationem but ad similitudinem and through the vicious dispositions of our heartes it comes to passe that the worst examples have our greatest allowance As for the practise of Saints commended to our imitation we can give their practise the praise Laudamus veteres sed nostris utimur annis Abrahams obedience Sarahs modesty c. shall have commendation but every Iesabell or courtly Herodias every Saul or Achitophell shall rather be followed What is this but to be like the Dogge or Swine to imitate them in their beast●y practises Or if we do follow them it shall be in their erring Noah in his drunkennesse Lot in his incest Iacob in his lying Abraham in his doubting David in his adultery Peter in his backesliding loving that in the Saints which the Saints never loved in themselves their vices Like flyes we slip over all the sound parts of the body and light upon soares and ulcers making the Saints foyle to be our jewell their shame our glory Thus Theodosius excused a fowle fact because David had done the like to whom S. Ambrose makes this answer qui sequutus es errantem sequere paenitentem But this we cannot hit on A light pensill can draw the wharts and wrinkles of the face but not the visage to the life Lapsus sanctorum ut non cadamus non ut cadamus prebentur exempla Such as passe by the good examples of the godly and imitate them in their sin I cannot better resemble then to the Aegyptians who beheld the Sun the Moone and all the glories of nature without admiration but if they meet with a Cat or Crockodile they strait bow their knees and fall downe to worship Vers 2 Seeing we are given naturally to apish imitation let us suffer Christian prudence to make choice patternes Christ he is the patterne of patternes the rule and measure of examples he gave us an ensample that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 The Saints are next and their examples bind us to imitation now how farre we may make their practise our patterne would be enquired And here that usuall distinction of Actions Ordinary and Extraordinary would be remembred Some of their Actions were Extraordinary being done by vertue or Extraordinary calling as Gen. 12.1 2. 22.10 or Extraordinary instinct as Eliah calling for fire from Heaven 2 King 1.10 so Num. 25.7 8. Or occasioned by speciall necessity of times as Act. 4.32 Act. 20.34 Other of their Actions were Ordinary and those admit of a threefold distinction some were good others bad others of an indifferent nature As for those which are noted as sinfull wherein they bewray humane infirmity they are as the darke part of the cloud which waited on the Campe of Israel which while the Egyptians followed they were deceived and in the end drowned These are spectacles of humane frailty not examples for like practise Their good Actions were their practises according with the Law of God as their meekenesse obedience patience