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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03267	Aarons bells a-sounding In a sermon, tending cheiftly [sic] to admonish the ministerie, of their charge, & duty. Preached by M. Samuel Hieron at a general visitation neere Bristow. And now published by them to whom his coppy was entrusted after his death.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1623 (1623)	STC 13385; ESTC S116920	25,064	63

the destruction of Gods people They who are Capteines of two armies Pilots of two ships shepherds of two flocks Pastours of two churches yea and more toe when a Godlie painfull man making conscience of his dutye grones vnder the burden of one but they travailing at one time with two children Gen ●● harder to bring forth then Iacob and Esau were cry not out in sence of any paine as Rebekah did seing it is so why am I thus but thinke that their presence in one place excuseth their absence in the other and the rather because they supply that by their Vicars or Curates which in their owne presence they cannot dis-charge But consider I beseech you as many as be heere faulty in this particular is your absence excused because by others your places are supplyed what then is the election of ministers but a scorne and mockerie as Dominicus Soto speaketh writing hereof at large Lab. 10. If a man may take a benefice and dis-charge it by an other man and seing Christ sendeth you as Labourers Teachers not ordeiners of Labourers and Teachers in your places De vit●… Cap. 22. what is it as Parisiensis speaketh writing much to to this purpose but as if a man should marry a woeman vnder hope to obteine issue of her but by another man what is it but a crosse practise to that of the Samaritan and of Christ Luke 10.35 Ioh. 21.15 Joh. 19.26 of whome the former did not commit the care of the wounded man to the Inn-keeper till he was to depart himselfe The Lord did not commit his sheepe to Peter nor his mother to Iohn till he was now ready to commit his soule to God and his body to the ground as Alphonsus de Castro discoursing hereof at large speaketh vnto whome it you be not yet resolved hereof you may add Buffus and Dumeus de sacris Ecclesiasticis ministerijs but especiallie Dominicus Soto who prooveth this NON-RE sidencie to be vnlawfull by the law of nature by the law of man by the law of God by Councells by Fathers whome he reckons vp And if I did want matter many more things might heere be spoken from him but I onely repeate that sentence of Damascene which he he hath in an Epistle of his which he calleth a golden Epistle where I take it he compareth those that leave their charge to others to cruel harlots that set forth their children to nurse the sooner to fulfill their inordinate lusts So do they set forth their charges to others that they may go whither they will the more freely and intangle themselves in secular affaires To conclude what is it but to send Gehazi with a staffe that can never recover a dead soule to life You your selves must put mouth to mouth and preach the word vnto them you must put eyes to eyes and enlighten their minds you must put hand to hand and show them all good examples in your owne persons which if you will not do but still thinke your Curates presence can excuse your absence Ezek. 44.1 then go to the Prophet Ezekiel and put your finger in the print of the Prophets speeche that you may not still be vnfaithfull but beleeve that it fully concerneth you You have not kept the ordinances of my holy things saith God but you have set others to take the charge of my Sanctuarie As if he should have saide you have received the oblation of my holy things but you have not kept the ordinances of my holy things and as if you were the Lords of my heritage you have put others vnder you to take the charge of my Sanctuarie which yourselves should have dis-charged Thus doeth the Lord plainely reproove you for substituting others vnder you and therefore may you justly feare that which Claudius Espencaus a Papist is bold to write which I am even a-frayd to speake that God shall serve you heareafter as you serve him now you shall be saved by your vicars but damned in your owne persons And now further men and brethren if that blind buzzards onely which know not the price of soules were guilty of this sinne I would not have marveiled or if the purple Cardinall of Rome onely with that accursed rabble of that Romish Court were guilty of this sinne I would have held my peace but that learned men men of judgment and vnderstanding which reade and professe to know the Scriptures and theise words pronounced against them no milder then gall and worme-wood should be so sore blinded by that love of the world as to seeke their owne ease their owne proffit their owne pleasure but not that which is Iesus Christs not his glory nor the salvation of his people ò ye heavens be ashamed at this thou ò earth conceale not this iniquitie Crye out thou hunger-starved-soule as the Soules of the slaine vnder the altar let not your tongues cleave to the roofe of your mouth vntill the Lord holy and true avenge your blood on them that slay you as beasts in the middest of the streete and thou blood of the soule al-ready dead dead in respect of any spiritual vegetation and dead in everlasting malediction never be dryed vp but cry lowder then the blood of Abel against Kaine for vengeance against this sinne and you that are the Lords faithfull ministers on earth regard the soules and salvations of Gods people and let them be as deare to you as they were to him that bought them with no lesse deare a price then the price of his owne blood And you Fathers and brethren who in the ministerie live in this cittie and have now long nayled your eares to the doore-posts thereof I say not as Bishop Latymer sometime said to his fellow-Bishops let the example of the Devill moove you who is ever diligent and never Non-re sident in his great Parish but I humbly beseech you if there be any place for beseechig left let the commandement of Gods word moove you who willeth you to looke to your calling and abide in that let the example of Christ and regard to his glory moove you who himselfe came to seeke the lost sheepe and finding it put it vpon his shoulders and himselfe brought it home let the example of the Levites and all good over-seers incite you oh let the ignorance of the people and dread to murder their soules which Christ hath purchased with his blood provoke you yea let the care of your owne quiet and the peace of your owne consciences which shall heareafter greivously rue it enjoyne you and let the assured persuasion of Gods goodnes who hath promised to mainteine you and will performe it constreine you to redresse all vnfaithfulnrs and thinke on those temptations which hold you therein are they not grosse and such as the shame of the world might shift of how much more should Gods spirit prevaile heerevnto thinke on the gaine you get by spirituall promotions joyned with spirituall ●●structions are they

them to beare the Arke of the Lord and to minister to him for ever therefore when this ordinance of God was not observed but the Arke was put vpon the Cart and drawen by Oxen the Oxen did shake it 2. sam 6. and the Arke of God had almost fallen to the ground right so hath God commanded that the care of the church should be vpon the shoulders of preaching ministers onely and if this ordinance be not observed but neglected as we see it is and the arke be drawne by oxen the care of the church be committed to ignorant men voyde of sound knowledge skandalous to the word the dis-grace of the ministerie the bane of religion and the shame of the church what may we looke for but the daunger of a great downe-fall surely the oxen will shake it Pharaoh so feared the hurt and regarded the good of his Cattell as that he thought none fitt to be their ruler but men knowne to be men of activitie Gen. 4.7 for so he speaketh if thou knowest that there be men of activitie make them rulers over my cattell speakeing to Ioseph concerning his brethren And shall Pharaohs cattell have men of activitie and shall not Gods people have men of knowledge will Pharaoh have none to be his Cow-heards but men skillfull in that trade and shall we thinke men of no learning fit to guide and teach Gods people which is a trade of trades and an art of artes If we be to travell we seeke the cheifest men of skill to direct vs if to goe by sea we desire the best Pilot to conduct vs if we be sicke we wish for the most excellent Physitian to cure vs and shall we be so sence-les and infatuated as to thinke any minister be he never so ignorant good enough to teach vs if you thinke so then looke and behold the miserie that is vpon the mounteine of Samaria behold the blacke countreyes of ignorance yet among vs voyde of the light of Gods word how many of our land are compassed with confusion of hellish darknes as a people vowed to destruction how many be like dragons and serpents in the deepe caves of the earth how many sleepe in ignorance like Molles and battes in the holes how many as the Assyrians in Samaria who know not the manner of the God of our land whose estate is blacke and a dismall day vpon them vnlesse God send them Pastours after his owne heart which may feede them with knowledg and vnderstanding the want whereof let the Popish idolatrie and grosse superstition let the heathenish prophane and palpable blindnes of the common people their vnreverent irreligious behaviour in things concerning God let their Sybaritical feasts and banquets consecrated to Flora Crispin Clement and Bacchus and such bouzing drunken Patrones let the excesse and most lothsome vomit of whitson-ale and Pentecost Lords let the entrance of poperie into England againe with a maine streame as of the Romanes into Ierusalem speake and cry alowde in your hearts and eares and moove you to inward pitty and compassion of Gods church And as for you which entred into this calling and have not knowledg to dis-charge your calling I say not as the Colossians to Archippus take heed to your ministerie but take heede of the danger which you incurre by starveing Gods vnspotted lambs with golden fleeces Remember that you have not the charge of oxen sheepe but of the most brittell and dangerous things in the world even the soules of men that are ready to be mooved by every temptation of tho most choyce and precious things in the world bought with the greatest price even the blood of Christ whose charge is so great that the Apostle well weighing the same crieth out as a man vnder a heavy burden and who is sufficient for theise things 2. Cor. 2.16 and if he being qualified from above haveing excellēt guifts of the spirit did so highly esteeme of the same as to judge himselfe insufficient for al that what base conceite had you of the ministerie how easy did you deeme it to be when you entred thereinto no man will presume to teach an art before he have learned it himselfe Consider how you dis-grace the ministerie and the profession of divine studies by your ignorance For as in times past the people haveing a Ghost in great admiration thought that to be wanting in the religion which was wanting in him so the people which follow you to be instructed by you seeing the lamentable lookes of your ignorance thinke that to be wanting in the minister which is wanting in you Consider the great danger both of your selves and the people whome by your ignorance you keepe in continuall ignorance and therefore both may feare that fearfull doome pronounced by Christ mat 15.14 If the blind leade the blind both shall fall into the ditch If Bezaleel and Aholiah when they were to worke in the tabernacle had not knowledge enough though they were work-men before but had neede to be filled with the Spirit of God in wisdome Exod. 31.2.3 6. and vnderstanding in knowledg and workman-ship then much more thinke you in the secrets of your hearts what knowledge is required of you who worke not in an earthly Tabernacle but in the building vp a temple for God to dwell more speciallie in even in the hearts of the people in reareing vp a chaire of estate for Christ Iesus to sitt rule in even in the consciences of men and in frameing a schoole for Christ to teach even in the soules of men Sitt downe and consider that which Christ shewed before you entred into this calling to be considered of whither you be sufficiently armed to meete your enimies that come against you if not let not ten shekels and a sute of apparel and meate and drinke which was the wages Micha gave to his wandring curate Judg. 17.10 that went vp and downe to seeke a service nay let not a thowsand times so much prevaile with you to incourage you heerein as the feare of that fearefull speech terrifie you when you admonish not a wicked man of his wickednes Nay that wicked man shall die in his sinns but his blood will I require at thy hands Ezek. 3.18 So that if any perish through ignorance your soule standeth for their soules both shall go to hell together therefore take heede to your ministerie The second thing which the ministerie requireth at a ministers hand is not onely that he be skilfull but also faithfull watchfull which Luke 12.42 Act. 20.20 Tim. 4.2 as Christ commanded in a Steward that gives his howse-hold meate in due season so Paul practised as a faithful Steward teaching openly and in every howse laying it to the charge of Timothie with witnes saying I charge thee before God and before the Lord Iesus Christ Who shal judge the quicke and the dead at the day of his appearing and in his kingdome Preach that is his