Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

.-------------------..__-----· __ a_nd_perpetuall fj_ u_id_e.__ AuHinbath the like. The word of God, rr.h~ch is ~~;~~~o~f~ dayry opened tento m, andafter afort broken to m, u our 11obi<~ apcritur & dtt'll/'1! Bread: .And a1 our bellieJ hut1uerfor that Bread quod~r" modo_ .1 .1 • _ • 6 ' frartgJtur, pams (fJ doe our mtndes for thu. . qNotidiamu eft: · 06je8. If former and Primitive Times were (o &quomodoifirtm r:. II f p h· h h · ffi 1 paMem ventres,fic ru o reac.mg, owcommet. tttopa e,tJ~t iflumqfitriunt our dayes wtll ftarce dovvne wtth tw1ce a SaD- mentes. Allgtl{l. bath ? Siththe ancient Fathers preached dayly, Hom.4:..Ex.so. ' howhappeneth it,that many reputed great Schol- -·ters in thefe T!mes,preach fofeldome? &c. Anfw. Firfi, one Reafon may be an affeCted hu– motu ofrnan-plea!ing, or felfe-preacbing; which is ambitiouily purfued, and mightily prevailes . abroaei in the World. · - _ . This,King}4me.r out ofhis deepeandPrincely wifedome, conGeived· to be the caufeof fomany dayly defe6Hons from our Religion, both to Po– perie and Anabaptifme. He calls it"' light,ajfeHed, '1Jnd an_unprofitablekind of'Te.-ching,which hath beene of lateyeeres too much taken up in Yni~erftt-ie, Ci-tie, and Countrey: Inwhich (faithhe) there« A muH_erin ... ~ up ofmuch readin[.,and adijpla_7ingDf their owne wits,&c.. See Inf.lrueli~n• Thefe are his owne words, in the ·Reafons ofhis Df.&oiiJfimin~af. direCl: ion for Preaching. . fMied Confo~en .. ces, pttg. If4• Nowyou rnu£1: know,that to the fcraping and patching together of the garifb and gawdie pain- See.Aufl.con{. tings and unprofitable Pompe ofafelfe_.Sermon, liiM,cap.t. there is required and ordinarily expected fuch a deale ofcuriofitie, varietie ofextraordinarie conceits,and trickes ofwit; that it puts the Pen-man to a great deale of paines,and tortures his wit extremely. HediV€swith much adoe into the dung- ( p) hill \ 1 I ;·

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