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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

practise ought What maruell therefore though such depart as emptie of heauenly wisdome as they came voide of holy desire Sobrietie is a commendable and seruiceable vertue in the life of man to order and keepe the same in frame yet this without attendance and looking to may be lost or at least depart for a time as it did from Noah Therefore Saint Peter to backe and strengthen the moderation of affection and conversation requires the attention of the minde that so the enemie through his vigilancie neither withdraw vs from the good which we would and he impugnes nor draw vs to the euill we would not and which hee importunes vs to Pauls Panoplie or Christian armour is so necessarie a furniture as no man can with safety want this Notwithstanding when we haue put on not a part but the whole and haue had proofe thereof by withstanding the enemie yet are we warned to watch withall that we may stand fast So necessarie is vigilancie euen to an armed and weaponed Christian that without it he may be driuen from his stand as were our first Parents in that state wherein they were likest to haue with stood Prayer is the highest linke in that golden chaine coupling saluation to the soule of man yet will prayers be few and those frozen too where no heed is giuen to our selues therefore doth Christ ioyne invocation and attention together saying Watch and pray And his Apostle exhorts to be watchfull vnto prayer Wandring thoughts flye rife at such times chiefly and distract the minde as the fowles did hinder Abrahams sacrifice these attention must restraine There are times wherein wee are more willing yea desirous to talke with God then at other those oportunities must attention take the force of invocation is much abated if it be not accompanied with attention and the eye of attention would close oft-times and steale a nap if it were not kept waking by the voice of prayer In the principall parts of Gods worship either he speaks to vs as in the holy assemblies or we to him in the language of prayer We must avoid Hypocrisie as the bane of both In our conference with God lest the fault of these auncient hypocrites and hypocriticall Pharises be laid at our doore whose mouthes and mindes went sundry wayes we must take heed to ioyne these two together the lippes nigh and the heart farre off and then the King will deny vs nothing Concerning the latter Gods speech to vs lest that complaint of the Prophet or the Lord rather by his Prophet my people sit before thee and heare thy words but they will not doe them rise in record against vs we must be carefull to ioyne obedience to our audience If ye know these things happie are you if you doe them Hitherto haue I shewed a threefold vse of Christian heedfulnesse or attention The first that it keepes vs from sinne viz. grosse and enormous such as Dauid calls the great offence otherwise there is no man iust in the earth that doth good and sinneth not and this is a blessed thing as the Prophet affirmeth in the first Psalme Secondly it prevents many troubles wherewith others meet teacheth cheerefully to vndergoe such as God shall see meet for our exercise the way whereby we come to the Crowne of life and this can be no lesse then a blessed way for it leades to Canaan though it lye through the wildernesse Thirdly that it hath the tuition ouer-sight of all other meanes to set and keepe them on foot that which Christ himselfe pronounceth to be the true happinesse Seeing then there is no diuision of languages in this triplicitie but each doth seuerally promise blisse I may to close the whole point seale vp all with that saying of the Spirit Blessed is he that watcheth c. He shall weane his heart from vnlawfull liberties enlarge his libertie in heauenly affaires fill his heart with sollid delights free himselfe from much in cumbrance and safegard his soule from deadly wounds The second generall head or immediate obiect whereat this watch must begin OVr Apostle hauing exhorted his Scholler Timothie in the 12 verse to the practice of particulars hee doth heere imply no lesse in this one word Tibi then was expressed in those many Hence to set consideration on worke they who teach others ought first to take out the Lesson themselues Thou that gloriest in the Law through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God Some man is wittie and hath instructed many but is vnprofitable vnto himselfe as Balaams Asse rebuked the foolishnesse of the Prophet nothing bettered himselfe thereby Pulcherrimus est ordo saluberrimus saith one vt enus quod alijs portandum imponis tu portes prior It is the most comely and meet method a preacher can vse first to beare the burden himselfe which he laies vpon another Christ taxeth those ●s too hard impositors and immoderate commanders who would lay burdens on other mens shoulders from which they withdraw their owne His Apostle counts those wise men who take heed to themselues whose liues are circumspect Who can commend Noah his shipwrights who made an arke for the safetie of others but were not themselues preserued by it What wisdome is it to send others to the promised land and build Tabernacles in this wildernesse for our selues What charitie to open the kingdome of heauen to others and to beare keys to shut out our selues He can never bee said what can to contradict he I say can never seriously seeke not earnestly thirst after the salvation of others who hath no care to worke out his own Qui sibinequam cui bonus The charge Paul ga●e to Titus was in all things to shew himselfe an example of good workes with incorrupt doctrine c. Mē are sooner perswaded by workes then words eye-sight then heare-say to well doing Non sic inflectere sensus H●manos edicta valent quàm vita docentis Practice will set an edge on the bluntest precept and actiō is the best rule in our Rhetoricke to moue men to put a good lesson in vre The Pharises had tongues which spake by the tal●egrave et but their hands scarce wrought by the ounce Therefore no time shall weare out the staine wherewith our Saviour Christ did blemish them in his time they say and doe not Their breast plate was all composed of Vrim without ●hummim they had knowledge void of holinesse resembling the coine which being in it selfe white notwithstanding drawes a blacke line Or water in great mens kitchins which hauing purged and clensed other things is it selfe cast into the sinke such are all they who Grecian-like knowe what is good but with the Lacedaemonian forbeare to practise the good they know It is said of our Saviour Christ that he spake as never man spake that he did all things well

no man despise youth in a Minister if it bee authorized with competent gifts for wisdome is the gray haires and an vndefiled life is the old age This Scripture doth branch it selfe into two parts 1. An advice or exhortation Take heed c. 2. A motiue or inducement inforcing the same For in so doing c. In the exhortation each word riseth into a head One doth opus imponere enjoyne a taske of attention or Christian watchfulnesse and that sollicite with a care circumspection Cave Take heed or attend An other points at the immediate obiect whereat this watch must begin and that ordinate orderly and answereable to the rule of Charitie which begins at home Cave tibi take heed to thy selfe The third doth onus apponere annexe a further charge of feeding others inferred by a necessary particle of connexion doctrinae and to learning The last toucheth the omission or intermission of this duty he must neither tyre nor retyre but manly march on and stoutly hold out to the last gaspe Permane in istis continue therein Thus Timothie is stirred vp and set on his way as Elias was foure times by the spirit First to a diligent warynesse and wary diligence lest while the husbandman sleepes the enemie come sowe tares amongst the wheate 2. To an eminent and more then ordinarie sanctitie of life for sedes prima and vitaima the best place and basest life sort not well together 3. To the care of a pastorall cure whereof Paul saith Quis idoneus ad haec who is fit for these things 4. To perseuerance in the good begun for he beginnes ill that goes not on therefore hauing put thy hand to the plough looke not backe behinde thee stands a pillar of salt The first thing is the care which Timothie must take or the watch he is to set The word imports in the originall a bent of mind an intention of will ioyn'd with a care and contention of the whole man that his workes warre not with his wordes and his deedes disgrace not his doctrine whence this collection may be made That vigilancie or heedfulnesse is a necessarie companion to all such as seriouslie commence a spirituall course chieflie to Pastors and Superintendents as Timothie was A doctrine which wants not the commendation of a threefold commoditie 1. It is a gratious preseruatiue against sinne deceiuing vs. 2. It is an antidote against troubles and crosse occurrences lest they vnsettle vs. 3. It instils strength and pith into all other duties and parts of Gods worship without which they be either wholly omitted or but hoverly done by which they are quickned cheered and well ouerseene These three things in their order handled you haue my purpose in this first head First it preserues against the deceits of sinne Watch and pray to begin with Christs owne speech lest you enter into temptation What other is the drift of the Prophets demand directing the whole Church in one mans person wherewith shall a young man clense his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word this seede is rife and many wher 's ranke sowen yet growes reformation but thinne and rare because little or no heed is taken of the stonie thornie and high-way hearers How often is attention commanded and commended vnto vs by our Sauiour against intemperancy and worldly cares by Saint Peter that the life breake not out into licenciousnes By the Authour to the Hebrewes that the heart with the seuerall affections may from time to time be held in awe What was Pauls counsell to the Corinthians hee that stands let him take heed lest he fall either it was the Apostles purpose to bring men into a needlesse feare or too much heed cannot be had But good men haue fallen Patriarkes Prophets Apostles yea better once then th● best of men the Angels kept not their first estate This Apostle writing to the same people wills them to watch and hee puts on the Thessalonians in the former Epistle lest they sleepe as others doe who were rockt in a cradle of deepe securitie By immoderate sleepe the humours of mans bodie are so dissolued that naturall heate is thereby much abated and in time quenched So fareth it with the drowsie and slouthfull soule wherein wicked thoughts being bred and multiplyed quench the heate of holy affections and so separate man from God Christ doth checke his heauy-headed Apostles Math. 26. 40. And those foolish girles fore-shewing the time of their preparation leaue a caveat to all that they spend not these houres in idle adoes which God hath giuen to gaine their blisse Of vapours that arise from the stomacke or heart say Physitians of the body and ascend vp into the the braine proceedes sleepe so the vapours foaming and reaking out of the secure and carnall heart send a spirituall slumber ouer the whole man as the Physitian of our soule infallibly defines Math. 15. Against which the wise man giues this prescription Keepe thine heart with all diligence for from thence commeth life Whereunto adde that of Paul in the latter to Timothy and it will adde great strength vnto our ward Evigila t● i● omnibus watch thou saith he not in some few onely giuing way to other nor in many omitting some nor in most passing by the rest but in all watch thou in all things A hard saying who can heare it What action is heere excluded What occasion is not meant What place can bee exempt Or who are the persons for whose presence wee ought discontinue or breake off our watch But to whom speakes the Apostle this A man meerely If so then watch in some things had beene enough and scarcely allowable but Timothie was more a man of God To whom speakes the Apostle this a Christian if so then watch in most things had beene enough and hardly tollerable but Timothie was more a guide to such to whom speakes the Apostle this some Angell if so then watch in all things were charge enough A taske best fitting those pure spirits which most approximate God in dignitie To Timothie then a keeper and teacher of his brethren in him to vs in vs to others is this precept giuen Let vs first amend in ourselues the contrarie securitie and so commend this duty to others But they must be motiues of no small moment that fasten such strictnesse on vs or them Take heed saith our Saviour Christ watch and pray for you knowe not when the time is Be sober and watch faith S. Peter the reason followes for your adversarie the Divell as a roaringly on walketh about seeking whom he may devoure Satan is an enemie and such an enemie as admits neither truce nor attonement The houre of Christs comming is vncertaine as vncertaine as is the onset of the theefe is it not then high time to take heed either that Lyon devoure vs or

heart in vre with God made the Commandements his meditation not in the morning only and that early and all day long too but when hee should haue taken his rest as others doe his eyes prevented the night watches yea his manner was to rise at midnight when others slept for to giue thankes It is storied of Sampson that when Delilah was set on worke by his enemies to knowe how he might bee bound to doe him hurt he dallied a while first with seauen wit hs then with new ropes which he brake as threds c. In the end importunitie made her mistris of his minde and him miserable for when shee had caused the seauen lockes of his head to be shauen hee was afraid and troubled at the voice which said The Philistines bee vpon thee Sampson Then awaking out of sleepe and thinking to goe out and shake himselfe as at other times hee could not doe as hee had done therefore they tooke him and put out his eyes bound him with fetters and set him to grinde in the prison house Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur Change but the name and each christian is the man whose strength lies in the lockes of heed-taking and attention which so long as they are preserued and kept in vre the Philistines his fore-named enemies cannot prevaile but if a rasor of securitie come over his head and shaue his haire the Divell I meane secretly stealing his heart from his true treasure and set it on other strange delights then Sampson like he becomes weake as other men the voice of pleasure allures him the voice of profit intangles him hearing that voice in the 6 of Ieremie which saith take heed to the sound of the trumpet hee answers as they say there I will not take heed Then the enemy of the soul takes him captiue puts out or bleres at least for some space his eyes his affections are then fettered and grinde he must to that lust of the flesh that lust of the eye pride of life which he before had in subiection Satan sent a Delilah to lull Paule in her lap and binde him with wit hs of greene delights but his watchfull soule displeased deepely with that flesh-pleasing force complained thereof shaked himselfe and so found ease Lot so long as his soule was kept waking by the city of Sodome brake with ease those ropes of vanitie which drew destruction on the cittie Sed qui in ipsa ciuitate peruersa i●stus fuit in monte peeca●it he that walked vprightly in the midst of that peruerse and forlorne place fell downe right in the mountaine Sinne is that to the soule which putrefaction is to the natural bodies as in nature three things preserue therefrom heate cold and motion so the same through heedfulnesse preserue the soule from corruption First intensiue heate and drynesse hath a hindering hand in this businesse so whilst attention keeps the heart frequent and feruent in prayer no aire of temptations can corrupt the soule Thereupon Christ tels vs that if we watch and pray we shall not enter into temptation 2. Cold that is outward is another let or preseruatiue because it resists extrinsecall or outward heat which hath the chiefe stroke in the worke The aire of affliction is cold and causet● many to fall away yet warily drawne in and wisely referred to the right end it breedes good blood in distempered bodies causing them with diligence to seeke the Lord. Againe the neighbour-hood of cold Christians and cohabitation of lukewarme professours by a spirituall antiperistasis warme some the more Lot was the forwarder amidst the frozen Sodomites Enoch walked with God alone when others went from him Noah in his generation sought the Lord by the practice of faith and repentance when all the world forsooke him and made way by their wicked practice to their destruction The third preseruatiue in nature and naturall things is motion which hath the like effect in our soule affaires For this cause the Apostle exhorts vs not to be wearie of well-doing wherein also this text requires continuance the aire doth euer moue in his Region so ought we in our seuerall stations alwayes be exercised in the course of godlinesse No mosse stickes to the rowling stone which if it laid still would be ouergrowen standing ponds gather skumme whilst murmuring brooks runne filth-free The neglected plant be it of the best either dyes or frustrates hope An vntilled field be it of the fertillest brings forth weedes briers thistles You wote why Aegistus became an adulterer Desidiosus ●rat he was entomb'd before his time for idlenesse is the graue of a liuing man The crabfish is desirous of Oysters but because she cānot perforce open them she watcheth the time when they open themselues then thrusting in her clawes shee speedes her selfe There is a time when mans heart is shut vp and kept so close that sinne cannot ceaze thereon nor enter therein a time when it is more open and apt to receiue the infectious impressions of lust anger envy and the like Which Satan obseruing by his diligent attendance ensnares the soule as he did Dauids who first slept securely on his bed then paced it idlely on the roofe of his palace when he should haue gone forth to the battell and displayed his banner against the enemie Hee that lookes to his feet and numbers his steps in a slipperie path shall set the surer whereas he that sets he lookes not where must needes-slip and fall the oftner Secondly as it preserues from sinne so it is an antidote against crosses the fruite of sinne as Moses makes them Deut. 28. Stolne waters are counted sweet and hid bread is pleasant but this pleasantnesse ends in painfull accusations and secret checkes of conscience those waters coole loue quench the spirit and both may breed that distresse of minde wherewith no worldly crosse may compare For the spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmities but a wounded spirit a burden importable who can beare it To proceede from inward troubles which are lesse seene to those which are outward and better discerned Some finde that true in proofe which Solomon speakes by way of Proverbe he that is hastie to anger committeth folly and folly sometimes commits him to be cooled within the prison wals and the busie-bodie is hated Can Elyes education but breed ill blood in his prosperitie Is not pride the Mother of contention contention of discontentment and shall not he that loues pastime be a poore man What dilapidations and alienating of states doe prodigall and intemperate Heires make causing auncient houses to spew out their owners and teaching their lands to deny their names Hell should haue no suburbes on earth if rash and and vnripe contracts did not maintaine marriage broyles The malefactor on the ladder taking his farewell of the world leaues this Cave for the best

the same things which he receiued from his mouth Had Timothie so ●iven a head that Paul beganne so soone after his departure to distrust his memorie could he so soone be carried away with errour or worldly cares who had dedicated his childhood to devotiō Might not Timothie his asseveration whom they well knew to haue beene taught by Paul and left to that end for some space amongst them might not the bare affirmatiō I say of his doctrine to be Apostolicall and suckt as it were from Pauls teat haue supplied the place of an Epistle to authorize his person stablish his doctrine as well for after as present times Certes the Apostle might haue spared his pen and paines if he had beene Iesuited in this point touching the authority of vnwritten traditions Did the Apostles Prophets and Euangelists all guided by one spirit propose to themselues the same end in writing that they had in preaching the message of life it is more then plaine that they did If mans perfection in this life and eternall saluation in the next was the marke whereat they aymed in both then why should some onely of things necessarie be registred and other of the same nature and like necessitie be exposed to neglect oblivion corruption discountenance of times the moathes which bred in the Apostles owne traditions and encumbred them vpon the absence of their persons Rash and inconsiderate actions are incident to mans weake improvident spirit the omniscient spirit of God doth nought in vaine nought but vpon deliberate grounds If then the wil and word of God could haue beene kept purer and more entire or alike entire and pure by tradition as writing why was it written Or if any part thereof my speech keeps still within compasse of things necessarie why not the whole Was God so forgetfull as when he had purchased and promised life to his Church not to prescribe the way to it Or so ignorant that man can devise a neerer better and safer meane to saue himselfe by than God hath done Was it out of good providence and discretion to omit things necessarie commend vnto vs matters of lesse importance Was it out of envy that he would not haue his minde fully knowne to man Or impotency that hee could not aswell haue revealed it wholy as by halfes Or out of exception that fi●●er pen-mē should record the rest then his Evangelists and Apostles were When or where doth God cancel that seale and call it the commission which alone was authenticall Wills he the end without the meanes or such a meane as warres with it selfe and disappoints of the end it should attaine Did Moses or any of the Prophets in the old Did the Evangelists or any of the Apostles in the new so mince the matter as some doe alter and add to the Testators minde allow or disallow as some presume what they thought meet Can God bee charged with such blasphemies or his actuaries and pen-men iustly challenged for such treacherie The law of the Lord is perfect May not this perfection be comparatiuely taken that a fuller clearer knowledge of God is had in the lesser booke of his law then in that larger volume of his creatures But the Prophet attributes such a perfection thereto as can imply no defect vnlesse the vigor and force of the cause bee inferiour to the vertue of the effect converting the soule Esay examines both faith and life of Priest and people by the law and testimonie If they speake not according to this word it is because being but blind leaders of the blind there is no light in them The Apostles preached no other things then those which the Prophets and Moses said should come The doctrine which Timothy is here charged to looke vnto and touching which hee was to charge others that they taught no other was not contrary but consonant to those Scriptures wherein Timothy was trained from his youth and those Scriptures were able to make him wise vnto salvation what may wee thinke of S Paul was not he a good Christian How doth he proue that and approue himselfe But this I confesse c. Act. 24. 14. These words Paul spake When accused by Tertullus and other Iewes before whom Foelix a governour In what cause particular case The rule of right worship Who did suggest the words he vsed The spirit of God for such was the promise To what end and purpose were they vttered To proue the truth of his religion pietie and profession where of God was author antiquitie an ornament the Prophets witnesses and their records did containe the tenour which tenour is here made the touchstone of Gods truth and triall of his sinceritie Now either did Saint Paul faile in his proofe the spirit notwithstanding prompting him or God failed in performance of his promise or the Scriptures suffice to make a true and perfect Christian such as Paul was in this life and an inheritour of salvation as we doubt not but he now is in the next If it were otherwise the Apostle would never haue vndergone the burden of so bold an assertion as elsewhere he doth But though that we chosē by God to doe the worke of Evangelists to whom yet he restraines not his speech but goes further and ascends higher Or an Angel meaning no evill one as Satan when he doth transforme himselfe but an Angell from heaven pretending he were sent from God If an Angell from heaven preach c. And that no man thinke these words of execration to haue fallen from him vnawares or lesse advisedly he toucheth the same string againe saying as he said before and leauing his latter supposall as a thing not possible that such contradiction should come from heaven hee iterates thus If any man preach any other c. As holy men of God spake so they wrot by divine instigation For first the Scripture the writing surpasseth all other writings 2. The whole Scripture aswell the law which is the Gospell fore●told as the Gospell which is the law fulfilled is not a Rabbinicall fancie Anabaptistical revelation popish fiction or any other humane suggestion But thirdly inspiration giuen of God 4. The vse whereof is manifold as 1. to arme against errour in opinion which it improoueth 2. Corruption of life by correcting iniquitie to furnish with a contrarie abilitie of holding 3. That truth in iudgement which it teacheth 4. That righteousnesse of life wherein it instructeth Some admitting the vtility of the Scriptures gaine-say their sufficiencie but amongst other errours it refells this convincing the authors for gainesayers of Gods spirit and purpose seeing it is not meerely said to be profitable but so profitable as naught is wanting therein to make 5 absolute perhaps the people or laitie in whom so great ●urniture of knowledge is not required not those only but the Pastor too the man of God And if an Angell from

a reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. And Baals Priests who went further lancing their flesh with kniues 1. King 18. 29. were farre enough frō Gods kingdome 4. Such as are wary heedfull but in the service of the worst Master whilst they obserue their owne ordinances 5. Such as run in the course they vse but with more haste then good speed since they walke not in the rode-way wherein Dauid safely ran Psal. 119. 32. but run in those wayes wherein God suffered the Gentiles for to walke 1. their own wayes 6. Such as beleeue in Christs merits but not as true Christiās ought to do seeing their trust in Christs merit is that he hath purchased grace for them to merit for themselues Heauen by free-will if they list thereby to be iust before God in themselues and fully worthy of Gods kingdome by which kind of belie●e they are abolished from Christ fallen from grace and bereft of the benefits of his merit as were the bewitched Galathians in the Apostles dayes Againe when they draw men from the wholesome pasture of Gods word to repast and feed in the strengthlesse chaffe of mans braine doe they not reiect the commandements of God that they may obserue their owne traditiōs In the three estates of humane gouernment Oecomicall Civill Ecclesiasticall the papacy masked with pretence of Religion regularitie Davus like disturbes all In the first which is Domesticke prohibiting mutuall offices of loue obedience hereditary succession due benevolence twixt Master seruant father sonne husband wife In the second dispencing with allegeāce disposing of scepters deposing Caesar crowning of murtherous attēpts against his person with a Lawrell of new-sprung martyrdome Touching the third Diruit aedificat mutat diuina prophanis He destroyes puls downe what God hath built with those Nimrodian rebels in the tower Babel seekes to raise the wals of Babilon higher then any mischance can soare as Niobe somtime said of her selfe He changeth divine precepts into prophane blasphemous fictions whilst in euery commandement branch of the Law the word is made of no authority by the traditions which he hath ordained By this time I doubt not but we see good reason of obseruing that Apostolicall rule He that speaketh c. The Prophets are Gods factors sent to negotiate in these remote Regiōs There traffick is the reconciliatiō gain of soules the Church is the ship wherein they imbarke the world the sea whereō she floates the word the card that directeth her course Timothie as Pilot keepes the sterne Tradition is the rock which he must shun The place of arriuall is the promised Land that coelestiall Canaan which is aboue His exchange there the richest for commodity rarest for perpetuity euen the saluation of himselfe those that saile with him Let Timothie then take heed to himselfe that his life be vnreproueable touching the grosse offence to doctrine that it be pure profitable to perseverance lest beginning in Leo he end in Cancer Let him looke to saying because a necessitie is laid vpon him Woe is c. to doing because such as say do shal be counted great in the kingdome of God aswell this of grace as that of glory continuance because not he that runs fast for a spurt setls before he come at the goale but he that endures not that for a time neither till the sun of tribulation begin to scoarch but he that endures the heats sweats of this holy Climate that to the end he I say or rather Christ saith it he alone shal be saued Iudas shone for a space gaue a flash as if he had bin a fixed star amongst the twelue but time discovering his false faith he proued a Comet or shooting star being drawn down withdrawn with a Quid dabitis what will ye giue me I will deliuer him vnto you St Paul on the other side approued himselfe to be a fixed star in the Churches firmament 1. by his owne heedf●lnes since he knew nothing by himselfe 2. by his industry in teaching whilst as a candle he spent himselfe to giue others light 3. by cōtinuance in holding out vnto the end witnesse that Swan-like song I haue fought c. that loue that his appearing Against which appearance the Lord prepare vs by a care so circumspect as may keepe vs vnspotted of the world a diligence so succesfull as may gaine others by such a continuance in both as may be intreated with that approbation Euge bone serue It is well done good seruant faithfull c. Blessed is that seruant whom when his master commeth he shall sinde so doing Soli DEO gloria ConfIrMet qVoD In nobIs operatVs est JehoVah FINIS 1 Tim. 1. ● Verse 6. Wisd. 4. 9. 1 Kings 14. Marke 13. 25. Gen. 19. 26. ● Take heed Math. 26. ●1 Psal. 119● Math. 13 4. 5 6 7. Luke 21. 34. 1 Pe● 5. 8. Heb. 3. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 12. Iude 5. 6. 1 Cor. 16. 13. 1 Thess. 5. 6. Wisd. 1. 3. Math. ●5 12. Verse 19. Prov. 4. 23. 2 Tim. 4. 4. Reasons of heed fulnes drawne from Christs t●ing the houre whereof is imminent but not knowne Mark 13. 33. 1. Pet. 5. 8. From the nature of our adversary Who is Sedulo●● Mark 13. 37. Luk. 12. 46. Powerfull Iob. 41. 17. Politike Malicious Iob. 7. 1. Wanting no war like advantage nor will to vse it to his best furtherance Mark 5. Ephel 12. Mat. 4. 9 Math. 12. Rom. 7. Gen. 3. 5. a Cloathing vice with a vi●grd of vertue 〈◊〉 drunkennesse with brothe●ly fellowship covetousnesse with christian providence c. 2. Cor. 11. 14. Iohn 2. 16. b When his 〈◊〉 is to frustrate that intention and depraue our good purpose by perverting the manner corrupting the meanes or altering some circumstance to marre the whole worke and make it worthlesse Eph. 6. 12. 2. Sam. 12. Psal. 30. 7. Ion. 4. 4. 1. Sam. 28. 5. 7. 8. From the world which is 1. deceitfull Iosh. 1. 21. 2. Pet. 2. 15. 2. Tim. 4. 10. Dangerous From the flesh which is false fraile Ps. 55. 12. 13. 1. Cor. 9. 27. Psal. 39. 1. R●sist the Divel Iam. 4. 7. Fly fornication 1. Cor. 6. 18. Ier. 6. 20. Vt corpus redimas ferrum c. arida nec sitiens ora c. Take heed Gen. 19. 33. Gen. 9. 21. Iudg. 16. Mat. 26. 6● 2. Sam. 11. ● Ps. 119. 148. Psal. 5. 3. Psal. 119. 62. Iudg. 16. from the 5. verse to the 22. Vers. 17. 1. Ioh. 2. 16. ● Cor. 12. 7. Ioel 2. ●0 ● Math. 26. 41. Math. 43. 21. Hosea 5. 15. Gen. 5. 19. Gen. 5. 22. Gal. 6. 9. Otium viv● hominissepultura ● Sam. 11. Prov. 9. 17. c Where the curse of GOD ●aunts the wicked as it were a fury in all his wa●es If he bee in the

Church and her children onely haue fellowship 1 Iohn 1. 3. i●yneth with such 〈◊〉 ●●●taine and keepe Christs doctrine The Father will haue the Sonne heard Math. 17. 5. the 〈…〉 the Sonne is an essentiall marke and sure of signe Christs sheepe Iohn 10. 27 and the 〈…〉 the promised Tutor and teacher of the Church for euer Iohn 14. 26. subscribes to that truth 〈◊〉 Christ hath tau●ht inspiring vs with the true effects thereof so that they who ●bey the F●th●rial ●●ring his Sonne the Sonne in hearkning to such as he sends Luke 10. 16. and where the inward w●●k● of Gods spirit concurres with the outward word of reconciliation there men increase with the 〈◊〉 of God Col. 2. 19. whereas they who practise their owne devices placing great 〈◊〉 in their vse whilst they despise Gods owne device and spurne against his appointed meanes haue neither promise from the Father of spiritual thrift who teacheth but by the Sonne nor furtherance from the Son who clenseth but by his w●rd Iob. 15. 3. nor assurance or assistance from that spirit wh●ch 〈◊〉 and prospereth such onely as the Father hath planted the Son purged with his heauenly du● The Papacy is a hotch potch composed of the shreddes of other heresies ● King 5. Rev 22. 18. Tradition discountenanced 2. Tim. 3. 15. Rom. 15. 4 Ioh. 20. 31. 2. Pet. 1. 12. 13. 2. Pet. 1. 2. 1. Cor. 15. 2. Luk. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Gal. 1. 6. 7. There is no likelyhood that God would haue so many things of greatest necessitie reserved to the publication of the putatuie deitie of the Pope which hee hath not revealed by his sonne u Can ought be added to that is perfect May addit ●o be made without marring it Dare any mar where addition is as dangerous as it is needlesse Doth the spirit delude vs calling that perfect wherein so many things lacke and those of necessary vse How much safer were it to fasten on the written truth which sufficeth to salvation then to forge vntrue writings and vnwritter truths to the destruction of 〈◊〉 soules Therefore they alone richly and fully afford things needfull to bring vs there to Mat. 10. 19. * The same things for substance being penned which were preached 1. Papists preaching the Pope his decretaline doctrine which is besides and contrary to S. P. Gospell cannot keep without compass of the cu●se 2. Their Romanū Evangelium a Gospel framd on the Popes owne anvile A● 1592. ascribes to certaine holy beads and the like trumperies with the vse of some Ave Maries Pater nosters or our Ladies Psalter asmuch as P. Gospell giues to the bloud of Christ. viz. remission of sinnes to all men in every place Can any Christi is heart but abominate such blasphemies and yet behold more abominations then these 3. A Iesuits Gospell broaching such blasphemies as neither earth nor heauen can heare without trembling and astonishment Here Maries milke is mingled with Christs blood as the Soveraignst salue for a sicke soule and which yet is more horrible and hellish if ought can be the milke is pr●ferred as more pretious Vbera dextrâ vulnera prensabo levâ Ver. 9. 2. Pet. 1. 21. 2. Tim. 3. 16. 17. Psal. 63. 4. 1. Scriptures prescribe fully and precisely both what for matter we are to ●oe and decline Tit. 2. 11. 12. Prov. 2. 9. Prou. 10. 18. 2. Cor. 10. 4. 5. Col. 4. 6. Eph. 5. 3. 4. Psal. 119. 9. Isa. 50. 4. No man can rightly praise or prize this pearle who is not acquainted with Davids practise Ps. 119. Solomons direction and our Saviors search Iohn 5. His preparation must bee reverence humiliti● his insinuation attention his cōpanion industrie his guid and prayer the spokesman and the commentarie a By this sea-card may every wise Christian so guide stere his owne vessell whether in slorm or calme as to awake with god in the morning to walke all day long vnder his protection to ly downe in peace cōmune with him in the night season Prov. 22. Deut. 33. 12. * Sad. advers Monach. Butdeg 1. Ioh. 1. 4. Ioh. 20. 31. Mischiefes accompany traditions and their Patrons Luk. 1. 1. 2. 3. ● b Scriptures the sole and sufficient guid to heauen therfore they but wearie their bodies spend their spirits who walke in by paths the faster they run the farther they are out of the way since they run not so as they that obtaine Secondly Act. 14. 3. Phil. 2. 16. Act. 13. 26. Heb. 5. 18. Rom. 5. 10. Thirdly Fourthly Papists a peremptory blood they dare giue God the lie 1. Tim. 4. 1 3. Fiftly c As Ancells and Saints with invocation Images with adoration Beads and other hallowed toyes with a power that is proper to faith and repentance The blessed mother of our Saviour with 1. prayers 2. A power over her sonne to command him 3. In matters of mercy to manage them And. 4. The milke of her breast with 〈◊〉 equall vertue and efficacy to Christs blood Stap. in praes 〈◊〉 rel princ doct The papacy is pitched vpon the sand of mans fancie since it finds no sure footing in the word Sixtly Sess. 6. Decr. 1. Non minus meretur inter Ethnicos c. St. in Luc. 10. 16. Cap. de eccl porro si plus vivere 〈◊〉 c. Luth. in Gal. 1. 7. 4. 6. God indeed doth dignifie privi●edge his Church but with such caution reservation that be e●pects and enacts of her the authoritie of a law-giver lam 4. The subiectio of aspouse Ps. 40. 10. 11. 12. The homage belonging to a Lord. Mal. 1. 6. The honour and power that pertaines a head Eph. 4. 15. d Made by Bristow in his Motiues * Set out by Gregory the thirteth Tit. 1. 14. Articulos fidei soluit Pontifex maximus Episcopus vniversalis Caput Ecclesiae Dominus Deus noster Papa Seuenthly Iam. 4. 12. Whatsoeuer des●●nds from the lynes of mans braine is monsbane in Gods busines * Math. 15. 9. In which kind● none haue so much pes●ered the Church as they whose traditions are 1. dissonant to the truth 2. for varietie infinite 3. in vse fruitles 4. in effect dangerous 1. impeaching the authoritie 2. implying an insufficiency and 3. shouldring out of the exercise of Gods word Marke 7. 8. Rom. 10. 2. Verse 13. The secret of the Lord is amongst them that feare him The true seruice of God consists not in bodily exercises which profit not but in the exercises of godliues the practice wherof is most hard burthensome in truth impossib●e to the natural mā Rom. 7. 8 Such is the curbing of our irregular wils and breaking the clods of our vntowardnesse A voluntarie and cheerfull resignation of our selues to Gods vsage Luke 9. 23. bow euer it standwith our temporall comfort a delight in holy exercises which by nature we cannot rellish Psal. 119. 97. a keeping of the heart in such plight as may command good motions and haue dominion ouer vnruly passions which Chirst cals a kingdome Luk 17. Salomons conquest a great one too Prov. 16 32. a daily fostering of saith with a constant fruition of her fruits attendāis Ioy peace loue thanksgiuing equabiliue of mind in estates a propension willingnes to dopart hence at Gods pleasure breaking out sometimes into a desire of dissolution Phil 1. 23. a forsaking of the world not locally in habitation as they do who confine themselues to some Frierie but spiritually in affection as they who re●ouace that corruption which is in the world through lust vsing it as though they vsed it not 2 Pet. ● 4. 1 Cor. 7. 31. Rhem. vpon 2 Tim. 4. 8. Gal. 3. 1. 5. 4. Papists pretending blasphemously that they fulfill the Law doe disanull the law by their superstitious devices Papa perturbat omnia Poperie out of a transcendent prerogatiue can godly transgresse all bounds of nature religion humanitie and ciuill societie forbidding the performance of promises couenants oaths declaration of truth vpon oath to these who worship the God of their fathers after the manner which they call heresie † Maio●sū c. I sit as a Queen shall see no mourning Rev. 8. 7. * 1 Pet. 4. 11. See Gualter on Mat. 15. 19. Mar. 7. 7. 1 Cor. 9. 16. Math. 5. 19. Math. 26. 15. 1 Cor. 4. 4. Act. 20. 20 24. 2. Tim. 4. 7. 8. Math. 25. 21. Math. 24. 46. 47.