Minifiers fruits cisacje divifaons, &c. 319 commended ; We fpeak a few good words to the people in a reading tone, ,like a child that is fay- in; his leffon, as if we believed not our felves and then we blame the people for their being no more edified by us; and we look they should be much affe&ed with that which never much af- feaed the fpeakers. If Chrift himfelf who preached with authority, and ufed to' awaken them, with an [ He that bath ears to bear let him hear] did yet convert no more than he did, what can we expe& upon our drowfie and dry dif- courfes, but drowfinefs in the hearers , il not contempt. Fifthly, Andalas the private zrcrk of the Mi' iiiflery is done as poorly by too many who do pretty well in publick, as if they knew rot that it is any corafiderable part of their employment ; or as if indeed they believed not the immortality: andpreciou fnefs of fouls ! And if the praife of men confirained them not, to do the publickpart fomewhat better, they would become contemp- tible burthens of the Church. Sixthly, the great duty of Catechizing is fc muchnegle&ed, that few of the people under® Rand the great fundamental truths ; and few are inßru&ed in the true methcdof the Chrifliai do- ¿rines , who know fomewhat of the matter of them. And fuch defe&s and languor in the Vi- tal parts,will one time or other appear in the ex. ternals. Seventhly, Formality and imagery choaketh or excludeth the fenfe, life and power of the met neceffary truths. They that teach youth the crds of the Catechism do .oft content them- [elves
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