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Doffr.
Benefits
pur
-
chafed by
Chrirt,applied
by the
Mini
-
ftery.
a
Cor. I.
a.
T.
To
injoy
Chrift,
make
much
of
the
Gofpel.
Gofpel,
what.
Doti.
In
mens
prea-
ching,
Chrift
hath
a
part and
pre
fence.
Reafou.
Ephefiana,Chapoz.
V
s
R, i
7.
apply
to
to
by
theminiftery
of
hit
Word.
It
was not
enough
that Chrift
had
reconciled
God to
us
;
but the
minifiery
of
reconciliation
mutt
be
betrufted
to
theApoftle,that
this
might be
made
to
find
place
in
them.
For
Chrift
bath not fo purchafed thefe things
in
himfelf,
that
they
fhould
without
any
thing
on our
part have
effeEt in
us, but fo, that
they
fhall
come
(in us
beleeving )
to
finde
accompiithment.
Now
therefore they
muff be
held
out in
a
word
of
Faith
which
is
the
Word
preached
;
For
how
can
we
beleeve
without hearing
(Rom.
to.
14,
17.)
the Word of the
Gofpel
preached
?
So that this,
that
between
the procuring
of
all fpirituall
things
in
Chrift
,
and
the fruitful!
effeét
of
this
in us,
there mutt come
the Miniftery to this purpofe.
It
muff
teach
us
,
that
as
we
would
have any part
in
that
which
Chrift hath wrought,
fo
to
cleave unto
the
publifhing of the Gofpel.
15y
the Gofpel
we
come to
be
poffeffed
of
thofe
unfearchable
riches
of
Chrift,hy
the glad tidings
of
it,
which God doth
fend
by
his meflen-
gers,
z
Tim.
taw.
our
Saviour
Ieficr
chrifl
hob
brought
life
and
im-
mortality
to
light
through the
Go/pel.
For
look
as
we cannot know what
is
done
in
France, till fome
come over
thence , and tell
us
the
news
there;
fo
we cannot know
what
is
done
in
heaven,
till
God
fend down
the news
of
it unto us.
For
the Gofpel
indeed is
nothing but
news
from heaven, touching righteoufneffe,
and life eternal!
through
Faith
on
Chrift
Jefus.
And
as
when things are loft, we cannot come by
them,till
we have
word from the
Cryer
or
others,that
they are
found;
fo
our life, which
we have all quite
loft by nature, we cannot get
it
again,
untill
God by
his
xdteo.ec,
viz.
Preachers
of
his Gofpel,fend
us
word
of
it.
We
mutt therefore flit
up our
attention
to
this
Word,
which
difcovereth fuck wealth.
If
one
can tell
us
of
force rich
put-
chafe at a cheap
rate,
of
force
gainful!
bargain, &c.
how
will we hear
on
that
fide
e
The
Gofpel telleth
us
of
all bleffedneffc in
this
life,
and
that to
come, through Faith
in
Chrift,
in
comparifon
of
which,
all
the
wealth
in
India
is
but
droffe and
dung;
give
therefore the more
diligent heed, beleeve,
and obey.
Thirdly,
that
he
faith,
Chrifi
preached
to
them
afar
off.
Now
he
was never
a
Mini/ier,
but
of
the Ctrcumcifion,
Rom.
15.8.
to'the
loft
/beep
of
the
hhef
of
Ifrael,
Mat.
r 5.
24.
in
his
own perfon.
Therefore
we fee
that Chrifl
is
prefent,
and bath
a
part in
preaching,
even when
men
preach.
Tef
ek
a proof
of
Chri/l
/peaking
in
me,
z
Cor.
13.2. It
is
notye
that
!peak, but the
/pirit
of
you,
Father
which
fpeaketh
in
you,
Mat.
Io.
zo.
The
Spirit ofthe Lord
is
upon
me,
andbarb
anointed
me,
that
I
fhaald
preach,
&c.
Ifa. 61. 1. Paul
was
tent for
execution of
the miniftery
of
the Gofpel,
vies
z6.
1608.
All
is
from the
fpirit
of
Chrift,
God exhorting by us: For this
is
the
office
of
Chrift
our
great
Prophet, not
onely
in his
own
perfon
,
to
open to
us
the
will
of
his
Father, nor
to
furnifh
out by
his command,l`vlinifters
of
his
Word,"
but to be
prefent,
and teach inwardly
in
the heart with that Word
which
is
outwardly founded unto the ear by
men extraordinary or
ordinary, and thushe
is
with them
to
the
end
of
the world
:
This
was
his