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Rom.
s..t
S.
of
3.
z
The duty
of
Paúors urged.
Nc
toca
ni
qui fingere
tor
fapi-
eatie
corda po-
putoram
iltio-
flrare
debe>rt,
occupare
praju-
mas.
Ambi.
odic. so.
Baps
example
for applying
himfelfe
rather
to
edcation
then
fpecula-
rion.
opertet
enm
qui
inftrnit
rudes
animas,
talera
effe
qui
pro
isgcnio
au-
ditoram Polit
fe
aptare.Grat.
caul
f.
Doti.
The
MmiPrery
is
not
a
com-
mon
gift
to
all
-
s
Cora
x.29.
vie.
Anabaptifts
confuted.
Ephefaani,
Chap.
..
V
g
R. Ti.
have any love to
C
brill,
then their
feet
Jhould
be
precious,
who
bring
us
glad
tidings
of
peace.
For the Mialfters fent
ofChrift;
we
muff
be exhorted to
remember
we
owe
unto
our
people
the duty
of
Paftors ;
Preach, exhort,
convince.
rake
heed,
left
through
our negligence wee make
a
hunger-rot among
the
(beep
of Chrift
:
Thofe that
have
but half
an
eye,fee that through
our default
the
people perifh
for want
of
knowledge.
Bring not the
guilt
of
blood
upon
your
foules;
what
elfe can
follow,
"Me
blind
lead
the
blind?
Feare
that anathema
,
Woe
to
meei
f
t
preach net
the
Go#iel,
I
Cor.
9.17.
And
fee
that for the matter
of
your preaching,it be the
wholefome
Word,
preach
the
doétrine
of
repentance.
Donot
trifle in
the
Pulpit,
weigh your matter, how
it
will edifie ,
before you broach it
to
the
people.
What
if
you know fome things
that
are
not
obvious,
mutt
they
,
as
wild
figs
,
needs
come
forth
e
Remember
that
grave
prefident
of
Baftl,
when coming
to
open, that
God
refted
the
Ieventh
day
, hee had occafion fitting
to pleafe itching
cares
with
fubtile
fpeculations concerning numbers,
the
holy
man
,
as
able
as
any
to
fbew,he contemned that which they magnified,
did
palle it over
with
filence.
Why
e
becaufe
the theorie
of
fuck things was
not
fittingthe
capacity
of
the
people;
becaufe (faith
he) the
Church
k
prefent
and
expet`,teth
not
araeg
intact,
but
7a,
atnlaázwr
oeçc
óex,dowrr
76r14r7op
ifúynarr.
I
would
fuch
could remember it
,
who
have made preaching
a
pro
-
phane
medley,
being not unlike
them
lingo fpeaketh
of,
who not
knowing
how
tocontaine things within even bounds,
feek fyllogifmos
in
Grammar,infleftions
in
Logick
,
card
with the
word
of God
all
kind
of
ftrange language.
Think of it, wheredo Shepheards
feed
a
Is
it
not
in
their Mailers walke
e
With
what
in
hard weather
,
but with
their Mailers flore
a
So mutt we
leade
them to thofe greene
palliates,
feed
them with the wholefome
Word.
Againe, for manner,
conde-
fcend
to their
capacities
whom
yee
teach, be they
never
fo fimple
and
weake.
Look
in
that
zTbef.
2.7.
S.
Paul,that
was
profound
enough,
knew tongues
enow,
walked
like
anurfc, ftammering
to
their
under
-
flandings. Think
it
not your credit
to
walk
in
the
Clouds,
it
argues
you want
both
wit
and
Clerkfhip.
Do
not checkgood
devotion with
bitter
inve61ives
againilPrecifeneffe, but let your
fpeech befementum
bonis,
&
antlers,
pravis,
and
(I
befeech
you)
doe
this
diligently.
In the next place
he
faith,
he
gave, (not
all)
to
bee Apoftles , but
fame;
Whence
obferve, That
the Calling ofMiniftery
is
net
Common to
all
but
to
fame
onely
that
are good in the
eyes
of
Chrift
for
(ucb
purpefe.
Are
all
Apoftlese
are
all
Prophets
a
are
allTeachers?
Toone
he
giveth
thus, and to
another thus,
as
pleafeth him
;
For
looke
as
all
the body
is
not
an
eye,
fo all
the body
of
Chrift
is
not
a Minifler,whofe
office
it
is
to
be in this
myfticall
body,
as
the eye
is in
the natural!
This
is
to bee
marked
aainft
the
Anabaprifts , who (hand
over
head)
thinke any may
run-out , and take
this honour
to himfelfe,
when
he
once knoweth
in any
meafure
the
mylerie
of
beliefe
:
And
they