__ an_erpe;pe~ua/1 quide. . \ 73 That bee 111ould acquamt and-put th'em 'm·truft with fuch highmyfl:erie.s., and heavenly matters, of fo foveraigne and-favmg·ufe., both to -them1 Tim4 16. felves and others ? - · But it mayhe-,. bdides commoR frailtie .and infirmirie, the-Minifi:er and Meffenger of the Word -is of lewd. and prophane.. Iife, and con- - ditron. · · If behe, more is the pirty; the ft:~mdall ofrhe · Mioiflcrie is the greater,and his owne damnation more fmarting and terrjble. See Pfal.)o. r.6, r7, &c. But notwithfi:anding, the prophaneneife of the Preac-her is·no priviledge tothe,hearer,either of negligence or difobedience. Re th>at turms hi! The Mi.Pii!l:m 1 prophancndfe : is no privi~ ledge ofdif.. obedif:nce to tbcWord. l'r11-u.1 s. 9• , , usrefrom hearing of the LAw.. tr-uly preached (though bya Pharife) even hi!prayeris abfJ~inahle, Prov. 2 8. g. Hee that defp;feth 1 the Word, JhaU he dejlre)'ed; Pr8v. 1 3. r 3•. Hee that oheyeth not the So1me-, · in his Prov.13.13· Mit:.~ifiets 1awfu1Iy fent, though ·not fandified thernfelves, fhaU not {ee life, but·,the wrath of God Iohn·3· 3~• abideth on him. / C'h'rifi himfeHe, in ·the Gofpei, bids his followers·toobferve·and doe wbatfoever they were bid by theScribesand Pharifes,whi'ch ·fate in Mofe·JChaire ; but not. to doe after thei-r Mazh. ,.11,.)3• works; .for -they faid:;and·didnot.· Every Min.iftrr is to be heard,receive·cf,and foHowed,fo farre as h fol!owes anddelivers to the Cfiurch the Truth of ' God,andDo&rine ofthe Apofl:1es. Fo~therdn he is·an An.~el-of.t'he L'ord ofHoft.r, and EmhajJadour i1J .7vtal,,_ 7· thefteadof Chrifh Arid all the parts of the Mini1 ccr.~.n. ' I ' fi:erie in his hand (he f<:>Howing theWord) 01all a~ certainely-be acc01ppliiboo; as if an A~ngei, or · ' Cbrifl:, - ~----~-
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