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A77901	Poimēnopurgos. Pastorum propugnaculum. Or, The pulpits patronage against the force of un-ordained usurpation, and invasion. By Thomas Ball, sometimes Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now minister of the Gospel in Northampton, at the request, and by the advice, of very many of his neighbour-ministers.	Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1656 (1656)	Wing B584; Thomason E863_10; ESTC R206670	204,465	356

enter that was not grounded in Geometry that had not Euclides Elements ad unguem others had on their Temples procul hinc procul este prophani none might approach that were prophane but none have so much need as Christians for there the cunning and slight of men is greater by the deceit of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in wait for to deceive (h) Eph. 4. 14. and the danger more pernicious and irrecoverable for its the subversion of the soul (i) Act. 15. 24. and what shall he get that loseth that though he win all the world beside or how shall he repair that losse (k) Mat. 16. 26 The Temple doors had therefore need to be well guarded and the Pulpit doors have written on them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let no unworthy person enter Vzziah was a King yet when he ventured he had his fault written by Gods own finger in his fore head (l) 2 Chr●n 26. 19 20. The Shepheard alwayes enters by the doore and stayes until the Porter open to him and the sheep will hear his voice and follow him a stranger they will not hear for they know not the voice of a stranger (m) Joh. 10. 3 4 5. God sets a Centry upon the Tree of life (n) Gen. 3. 24. yet here is life and death for death and life are in the power of the tongue (o) Prov. 18. 21. behold sayes Moses I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing (p) Deut. 32. 19. we should be careful therefore of these avenues 5. Yet this exact and rigid scrutiny must be no more exact and rigid then the Scripture makes it it becoms not Servants to shut those doors their Masters have set open If he be willing to keep open house we should not envy and repine thereat as Joshua when we heard that Eldad and Medad prophecied but should wish with Moses that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would poure out his Spirit on them (q) Numb 11. 28 29. were it in our power not only to make this way broader and this door wider but even the way to Heaven also we should be cruel if we did it not you are not sayes Poul straitned in us (r) 2 Cor. 6. 12 nor should not be by us we are therefore willing in this as in all things else to stand to the judgement and determination of the Sc●iptures sit liber Judex what they say we are ready to subscribe yet we observe them to be very sparing in giving liberty and allowing any great or boundlesse latitude unto Gods dearest and most faithful servants Moses was faithful in all the house of God (s) Numb 12. 7. Heb. 3. 1. yet had not latitude or scope allowed him in these transactions but patterns given him and others issued for every thing he did about the Tabernacle (t) Exod. 25. ●● according to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all the Instruments thereof and this pattern he is severely charged to observe and imitate (u) Exod. 25. 40. and look that thou make them after the pattern that was shewed thee in the Mount it was much God would not trust him to make boards and Curtains or hooks and taches which were plain things yea would not venture any thing on his imagination and discretion but gives him patterns so David a man after Gods minde and heart exceeding prudent in matters (w) 1 Sam. 16. 18. yet is not trusted in the parts and structure of the Temple though they had the Tabernacle to be their guide (x) 1 Chron. 28. 11 12 13. and though his son Solomon was an acurate and able Architect yet David would not trust him with this Church-work but gives him patterns for every thing he had to do and for the Officers and when Ezekiah doth endeavour to restore the Temples Officers yet he takes no liberty but doth all according to the Commandement of David and of Gad the Kings seer and of Nathan the Prophet (y) 2 Chron. 29. 25. It s much debated and not fully yet agreed on what kind of Officer Timothy was whether an Evangelist only for that we are sure of (z) 2 Tim. 4. 5 or whether besides that he were not a Bishop but it is out of doubt that he was a confiding person one of a thousand for his piety and care in spiritual and Ecclesiastical affaires (a) Phil. 2. 20 21 22. for I have no man like minded that will naturally care for your affairs for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs but yee know the proof of him that as a son with the Father he hath served with me in the Gospel yet when Timothy was left at Ephesus to give admission to these attendants about holy things he is not trusted very much but hath orders and directions sent him whom to admit and is severely charged not to be partial in it (b) 1 Tim. 5 21. Titus was also a very trusty man and had the Ecclesiastical keys of an hundred Cities hanging at his girdle (c) Tit. 1. 5. yet is not left to any prudence or discretion of his own in this imployment but hath Rules and Orders given him in the following verses of that Chapter But be it what it will be the Scripture must be our Judge and we are willing to be ordered and judged by it what liberty that gives we cannot we will not straiten and confine what that restrains we cannot widen and inlarge 6. The Scripture doth not handle any point of Doctrine by way of common place or treatise using a methodical and regular way of opening and explaining of it but toucheth upon things occasionally as it relateth to the mainscope and purpose of the thing intended leaving us for to pick and fish the truth out as we can are called in the Apostle and by him oracles (d) Rom. 3. 2. and oracles we know were wont to be full of sense scant of sayings Kings use short speeches as having more of majesty and vigour in them as he said well imperatoria usus est brevitate when God was pleased himself in person to speak to men he spake but ten words as they are expresly called by Moses that was witness to it (e) Deut. 10. 4 what one sayes of Religion in the generall is much more true of Scripture that it is medicina sanabilium ingeniorum a plaster for wits that are not utterly incurable We must fish out the meaning at our peril God would not have us sluggish and unactive as the Poet sayes of Husbandry that it was left on purpose in the dark to exercise and sharpen the wits of men curis acuens mortalia corda Nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno We must therefore look narrowly and wisely into the Scriptures to see what we can finde concerning this

pathetical and serious exhortation given Timothy (a) 2 Tim. 4. 1 2. and that the Prophet meant these times appears in that place where the same is iterated and repeated though in something other words (b) Jer. 23. 3 4 5 6. In his dayes Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called The Lord our righteousnesse what can more plainly point out Gospel-times for though the Levitical administration of the Covenant was to expire or to be disannulled as the Apostle speaks (c) Heb. 7. 18 19. yet the Covenant was not but was even then an everlrsting Covenant (d) Jer. 32. 40 and Aarons Priesthood however in some sense it was to be determined and cease yet was indeed in some sense an everlasting Priesthood as it is expresly promised to Phineas (e) Numb 25. 12 13. that is the Office and attendance upon holy things was everlasting to be continued in Aarons Priesthood for a time and afterwards to be translated into the Tribe of Judah and Order of Melchizedeck as God hath not only said but sworn (f) Heb. 7. 20 21. where now it is and shall be to the worlds end in the Pastors and Teachers of Gospel-times The Prophet Isaiah sayes (g) Isa 44. 3. I will poure water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground I will power my Spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine off-spring and the Prophet Joel (h) Joe 2. 28 29. I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh now when and where were these great floods and inundations of the Spirit poured out the Apostle Peter tells you that the greatest and most observed inundation was in the day of Pentecost upon the Apostles that were then assembled in the Temple (i) Act. 2. 2 3 4. though there were dewes and lesser showers upon others afterwards (k) Act. 11. 15 and that not only in an extraordinary but ordinary manner (l) 1 Cor. 12. 8 9 10 11. yet in the Prophets these are promised in the reverend and known denominations and Titles of Priests and Levites for when the Jews and Gentiles shall be gathered out of all the Nations and bound up together in one volume and presented in Jerusalem unto the Lord God promiseth that he will take of them for Priests and for Levites (m) Isa 66. 20. 21. properly and litterally they could not be for the promise is to gather all tongues and all Nations Tarshish and Pul and Lud Javan and Tuball are expresly named (n) v. 18. 19. that is the Gentiles as they are called verse the ninteenth for the Priests and Levits properly so called were only Jews and of the Tribe of Levi and Spiritual Priests and Levits they could not be for it is said (o) v. 21. I will take of them not them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex istis as Junius Montanus and others that is ex istis gentibus quae in munus oblatae fuerint domino as in their note now who ever is converted and washed in the blood of Christ is made a spiritual Priest and there is no distinguishing and picking out of some from others of them (p) Rev. 1. 5 6 for all have great dignity and there is no culling out CHAP. XV. The ninth Argument THat ought to be in every setled well-ordered Arg. 9 Church which God hath promised not only in words but also in Figures Types and modelled Representatives where the eye doth give in evidence as well as the eare when God doth not only say but shew not rehearse only but also represent and pourtray paint and engraven to be exposed to the view as well as hearing When God was serious that Jerusalem should be besieged and would have the people be assured of it hee commands the Prophet to expresse it in a picture (q) Ezek. 4. 1 2 3. for God knows that words are but windywinged Creatures that stay not when they have done their errand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Poet often calls them nocte volat caeli medio terraeque per umbras as another sayes of Fame a flying report Curse not the King no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber for the bird of the aire shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter (r) Eccles 10. 20. that is some rumor or report will fly abroad and Kings have long eares as well as hands Christ told the Apostles often of his dying at Jerusalem but his words flew away before they understood them (s) Luk. 18. 31 32 33 34. and therefore when he was to dye indeed and resolv'd they should remember it he closeth those expressions in the amulets and earings of the holy Sacrament that might hang as pendents at their eares continually (t) 1 Cor 11. 23 24 25 26. we confesse one way of chayning and confining words unto there proper office and employment of serving and securing of the memory is to record and write them down some think the reason of that great Apostacy and irreligion that was among the Sons of Noah after the Flood was want of writing for tradition was very easie and apt to be corrupted and therefore Moses was enabled and commanded to write all down and God himself began unto him in the Tables of the Law (u) Deut. 9. 10. but this was not enough to see the Characters and Letters but Portraitures and Pictures were annexed and written also and imprinted because they made a deeper and more palpable impression on the senses when you have a story or fable not onely written but also pictured and drawn in lively representatives before you as all the Prophecies of the succeding times are unto John from the fourth Chapter of his Revelation unto the end But God hath promised a Gospel-Ministry some to attend and act in holy things not onely in words but in visible and reall Types Delineations and Representations for when the City and Temple at Jerusalem were smitten as the Prophet speaks (w) Ezek 40. ● those graceless Jews were apt to think God had forgotten all Religion as Gardiner that bloody Bishop told Henry the eighth when he had pull'd down the Monasteries and seized their Lands unto his own use that now he would be thought the most Atheisticall and irreligious King in all the world and that would have an evill influence upon his discontented Subjects whereby he wrought him to a willingness to enact and execute those six Statutes whereby so many conscientious persons of both Religions were destroyed So the Jews now began to whisper that God now cared not nor looked after any thing but had forsaken all (x) Ezek. 8. 12 and so fell to the worship of other Gods the Lord therefore was now engaged to make it known and certain unto all men that the Jews had not stumbled that