Savory
Miniflers
aro
honoured
by
God.
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preach
favory
truths of the Gofpel,
your
hearts
are
firm
-
ten but
if
aman
comes and
teacheth
ralfe
truths,
you
will
beare with hint
; is
not
this Scripture fullfilled amongft
many
at
this
day
?-
they would
be content to
beare
any
thing from
thofe
that were
unfavory,
they
could beare their Miniítery a-
enongfl
them,
but
for
the
faithful!
Miniíters of
God,
°every
word
that
proceedeth
from them
ofendeth
them
;
this
is
an
argument of unfavory
fpirits.
Laftly,
Had
ï
tofpeake to
fuch
as
are
young
Minillers,
1
fhould give
a
rule
of direction to them, to
take
a
wife
courfe
to,keep up
their
honour,
there
is no fuch way
to keep up their
honour in
that
way
that
God
hath
fet them
in,
as
in
a
favorines
in his
Miniítery,
and
in
his
life
;
Let
wicked men
in
Tavernes
fcorne at you,
and
fay
what
they
will ofyou,
yet
on
their
tick
beds
they will
be
forced
in
their- confcience
to
fay
otherwife
of
you
:
Let
not Miniíters
fret
and vex
when
they
lofe
repute,
It
them
confider whether they
have
not
loft force of
their
fa-
vour,
and labour
to be
favoury, and
then
they
need
nòt
Rand
for honour
, for God
will honour
them.
certainly
Auftin
fpeaks
of this very
excellently;
A
man cannot
be
trod
upon
except
he
be
inferrer
r, except
he be-under another ;'he is-not
under that
cloth
Puffer
in
his'body
,
if
fo
be
that
his
heart
be:
fixed
in
heaven,
he
is
not under
any
man
:
this
is
to
be thus
applyed, that is,
let
a
man
come
and
hafel"y
fub:nit
hiìrifelfe -to
the
lull of
any
man,
but let
a
Man in
his
doarine
keep
above
the
contentment
of
the
i(t
of
the
fiei
,
and let
his
doe-
-trine
be
Evangelical!, his life heavenly and holy, he cannot be tro--
den
ur
on, his
name
will
be
above
them all,
above all
that
can
be can:upon
him how iavory is
the
very memory
of thofe
that
have
been precious
in
fo°rner
times,
nay
lately,
they
li-
ved above the content of mep
therefore:
they. could not
be
troden
upon,
God
bath
preferved
their
names from
,genera-
tion to
generation;
therefore
let
Miniíters
and
let
Chrifti
-,
ans
labour
to
keep
their favour, if
they would
not
be troden
tuider-foote
of
men.
SERMON-: