314 Overvalue not fervour and lowdnefs. DIRECT. XLI. Zeá not thebareFervour of a Preacher, or the Lotvdnefs :of his voice , or ofeaionate manner of utterance, draw you too far to admire or followhim ; without a propor- tionable degree offolid under fandingand judicioulnefs. -T is pity that any wife and judicious Mini - fier fhould want that fervour and ferioufnefs of fpeech, which the weight of fogreat a bufinefs . doth require. And it is greater pity , that any ferious affeóionate Miniier, fhouldbe ignorant and injudicious And it is yet greater pity that in any good men , too much of their fervour fhould be meerly affe6ted, and teem to he what it is not; or at leaft be raifed by a felfilhdelire to advance our felves in the hearers thoughts, and to exercife our parts "Upon their afe&ions. But it is mofi pitiful that the Church hath any hypo- crites who havenoother but fuck affe6ted diílem- bled fervency. And it is not the leaft pity that fo many good people, efpecially youths and wo- risen, fhould be fo weak, as to value an affe tio- nate tone of fpeech, above a judicious opening of the Gofpel. I confefs there is fomething in an affe& ona;e exp ref{àon , which will rove the wifeft : And'as light and jzdgemert tend to gene- rate itedgemerrt , fo heat of affeetion tendeth to beget aff 'E7ion, And I never loved a fenfelefs delis ry of matters cf eternal confcquence ; As if
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