. (to) hathappointedMeffengers and Officers to proclaim his laws un:– ro the world, and tender them his grac;e , and fai-th, [ He that hearethyou heareth me ; and he that defpi{rthyou defpifeth me, Luk.._e I o. 16. and he that deJPiftth, defPifeth not man but God, 1 Thef• . 4· 8. And he that will not nowbelieve :and hear Chrifi fp~aking by his Minifters, when he is acknowledged to !De the fon of Go~, and his fealed Word bath had {o long poffeffion in the. world , would hardly have regarded Chrifl: himfelf in a time when he :appeared in the form of a fervant, and was found in falhion as a man, and was believed on but by a few perfons then counted but inconfiderable. . , · 4· Note~lfo. , the humility and teachablen.efs of Di/cipler in ' thofe times, who were wont to fit learning~~ their Teachers feet: Which was then an ordinary cafe , .and not of Chrift Difciples ()'l!tly. PaulwasbroughtupatthefeetofGamaliel, AUs 22·3 · – Nor like the proud and felf-conceited part of our hearers in thefe times, that come to hear fomc:what for their malicious or conter.~ - tiom minds to q!larrel with, .and expeCt that theirTeachers tell them nothing but what is agreeable to their own conceics, and think us to be injurivm to them, if we would heal their ignorance or jmpiety , and make them any wifer or bener then they ·are; a.nd that reprea£h us and fer themfelv-es againfi us as ·their ene.. - mies, if we will not be ruled by them nd humom them in all ot1r adminifirations,. as if ~e were the patients and they the Phyfieion , . -we the learners a.nd they the Teacher~, yea we their fcrvants, and they our Guides and Rulers in the matters of our o\\?n 0/fire. But let us come clofer eo the words themfelves , and confider : of the Infiruc1:ions which they afford us. which are thefe. Dod:. I. It i.s but One thing that u of ~~.bfohite nectffity; hut it u many things that thofe are tak_en up with, that negieEJ that one. Dod-.· 2. The One thing needful leadeth to content ; but the many things of. the W9rld do tronble, aud dijq11iet ~ and diftr.lla the fouJ. . Do&. ·3. 41/rmn wbere.t.ht G'Ofiel u preac.hed,.lutve the.ir choice whether they will feek.. ana hflv~ the one thing necef{ary ' or trou- . bk. and dijfraEl- thernfeive; :with the m11ny things that are un~ · necef{ary.-, · Dpd-. 4· . They that choofe the One 1Mng nuef{ary ; do choofe the ' · gfJohd part h; ~nd ·they~~~~ ~&~P[~ ~n] .~t~~r 1~~ 7Yl~k.! _an Devi~an: .. !4~- appy f - ~~c~~~ , · __ g~~· ;;~ ;
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