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Savory

Miniflers

aro

honoured

by

God.

6372

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-: