2-PETITION. vpontheL'ord:r Prayer. 47 out bleffing.The i 3. of the ..,4llntelleth vs it was the Culiomeofthe Church Ads then to haue the Law and the Prophets read vnto the people. For, afrertheleFlure rs* 3;1 S t 6. of the Law and Prophets, (faith the text) therulers óf the Synagage lent unto them,faying: ye men and brethren, ifye haue any mord ofexhortation for the peoplé, fay on . This god- ly cuftome our Sauiour was fo farre frommifliking, as that himfèlté willingly v- ied it. In the t5, of theAtíritisfayd, that M ofeiofo ld time hath in may Cittythem that preach him, feetng he is read ìn the Synagogue entrySabbath day. In the 3 6, ofle- remy, we read and fe how Baruch was commanded by Jeremy to write at his mouth, oras he d id indite, and tell him allthewordes of theLord which hee had fpoken unto him, vpon a rowle or booke,' and then to take that rowle and goe into the houfe of the Lord, and to read itdn the audience of all the people.Inhope that by that reading vpon the booke to them in theabfence ofloemj, who was now flat vp, the people might be moued to pray before theLord, & euery one toreturne from his euill way . And Borsch did fotwife. See now and matkeboth the warrant of reading,and a profite hoped for by it of the Godly. So far were they euer from either contemning this means;or from denying it power in gods bleffing to work faith and repentance in the hearers. Bu /linger goethfurther then 1 noty do vpon there words (for I alleage fluent On- ly to thew the warrant of this our vfe in our Churches heere in England of rea- ding the Scriptures to the people ) and faith he : Ne pigeat nos laborum, ne pudeat Btellingeet recitationisex libro, ft ea deflituatur vì memoria,gn u fine hbro memorizer verbena Domi- tudgment o ati übere annamtiemur.Nemo reiecile autaduerfattes e fe Baruchumtegiturpropterrecita- the mimifier for e z libromanufcripto fermones Domini. Cur ergo tofide! m miniflrum re jceres & au- reading. dire dedignareri qui fideliter ea prolegit rue reueiata pint a Domino ?Non dico hac,quod non nili recstari velim exfcripto fermories ad populism, fedfi magna necellitae d-idoneorúm minJlrorumraritaeitaffagiter,nefaflideantverhimdeiand:tores .That is : Let vsnot be wearie of our labours : let vs not be alhmed to read vpon the booke the word of the Lord, if we want memory fully to declare it by heart or without the booke. Wee do not read here that any man reieded or refuted Baruch for his readingvp- pon the written booke the words ofGod:why therefore fhouldeft thou reied or .faithful difdainetoheareafaithfullMi flitter, which faithfully readeth thofe thinges that minifler, the Lord hath reuealedto him? This fptake I not, becaufe 1 would haue nothing but reading of Sermons written vnto the people, but that if great neceffitie con- ftraine or a wantoffit Min ifiers fo require, that the hearers may not loath the word of GOD. Thusfarre was hee from the extremitie Ifpeake of, and his wifedomeigrauitiy anddeepe judgement is knowne fuflicientlyto all the: learned. Socrates in his Storie reporteth thus ofciftricuo Bifhoppe of Conflantinople, and a' good Bifhoppe. Freemen cum prefbyterj gradum o6tinuerit, condoner,Socr.h oc.. guamfummoludioconfecerat, adverbumedifcens, in ecclefiarecitauit. Po flee crebro Eccle.lib.7, of Cr dilligentia , maiorern audaciam adeptau, ex tempore cencionari capie, rationm- p quedocendamagispapularemfecuttue ff, &. Fiat when heobtayned the degree ofa ca 2. Minifier, hisfermons that with great fludie aril diligence bee bad made, word by word hee learned without booke,and then recited them in the Church. After- ward'with often vfeand diligence lice attayned to greater audacitie, and be- gait to Preach extempore, and followed a more plaine way of teaching _Tet doewee neuer reade that the Chut'ctt then difdaynedthis meafitre, neither re- fufedtohearehim, 'much lelïecxclaymedagainfi his mini firieasto hint vnlaw- full to vfe, and to all others tó átknowledge and receiue. I lay not downè Theodoret, what Theodore writeth of Flauianus, what Poffidonisu of Valeriur and Ali- 14 ecclefi- puto, what latter VVrirers fay "e itráll of Minilters that they "hauetheir war- lib.4cap, 5. rant;Simediocriadona if they rfauemeane gifts ;'and in forne mcafure bee able Polydoni in to teach &c. I mention not as I might the dtfcreet care of Imp godly and reue- vita fduguft rent brethrenpröte fling theirconfcience, in frequenting their Churches,' and cap5.Yrfrn cons- catechif.
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