Dioi cAT OR I E. publifuing ro the world. The one is,to teach the "tl1orld,what. a treafure chey have of them. ,And the other,. to tell thi.r Church, what aJe"111ell1he loft, when !he lop: thetr ~uthor. Theworke is a BodyofSermons. Tothe~ he had been moll: bred, and in themhe moft excelled. And hewas not agrea:.. ter Preacher in his age, thar1h~ was both great and fjequent, ia his .younger and .firongertime•. As forth~boC!y ofthe \vork It felfe, were It riot that we hke not to difparage any mans endevours by comparing,we would fay, the [hrifliatt worldhatbnot many fuch 'Bodies of Sermons, as we here pre; fenr, underYour Majefties favour,to the view,and ufe ofthis Lhurch. And if another :1\(ationhad them, they would as highly-value them. : And here we humbly beg leave to tell 'Your Majefie, thae 'thefe Sermons are in this, like their Author, mixed, of~ligif.m and "111i[edome. It is ari excellent thing for aman tofpeake wifely, and eloquently, both at once : but where thefe per~ , fections meet not, there faith S. vfugu~ine,VicatJapienter, ~~~fi~'4; ~uod non poteft eloquenter. Let the Preacher (ofall men) Chap. :s~ fpeake that wifely, wh~ch he cani10t utter eloquently. And ifS. dugufline in his time found that fit, out ofall doubt 'tis necelfary now, thatmen ofQur profesfion, fee themfelves to preachwith more r:J;t_fidome, than eloquence. VVithChri.. flian andreligiomWtfedpme; which alone kno\vs how to pre.- ~erve truth and peace together. F: or as all other Churchet m the world,are moft happy when thefe meet; fo is this too. Buti:oomanyamongthepeople, choofe rather to have-their humorfed, than their foules edified. And carry partial! eares even to the hciufe ofthat (jod,"tl1ho i1 no accepter ofperfons. To fettle therefore thepeaceofche one,and td abate thehumor of th: ot~er, hothing certainly under qod, would be ofgreater tAdtxo.fi effi~acte,chan Conciones [apientes, wife,artd difcreeteSerm{)ns~ ·whtchy~t!:hay be as zealous anddevout as any otl1er. Fdr he that Is_ zealous according to knowh:dge, is not lei1'e zea... lousfor h~~~110wledge fake. . .And trueWifedome, which is ~~t trUe tf tt be not Chriflian carries no water about it to ·- - - > A -- --- -- ·- uench .. - 4 .q -----~
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