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Faithful Minijters
bat/, theprovidenceof
God
over
then.
he
.may
come
to
them
as
Vflyfs
came
to
the
mount with his
face
fuining,
fo
be
should come
with'
light fhining,
and
fcatter the
bea
ms
to-
'the
.fouls wh
reever
he
comes
that
fame
foils
may bless
God
for
that light that
is
dar-
ted
into
such
a
foul
,
and his work
should b;,
to
communicate
light
to
his
people, the
whole counfel of
God
and
nót
to re-
[train
-.any
thing that
may give
light to
others.. Iohn was a
burning 'light,
and yet
he confumed
hîmfelf;
fo
Ministers
fhould ipend
themfelves,
and should
lay.
out themfelves
to
give light
to
others,
he
fhould
pirty poor
fouls
that fit
in
darkness and in
the
fhadow
ofdeath,he
thould.confider
what
a
great
work
he
is fens
for
to
do,
that he fhóuld carry-light
to
shofe poor
-fouls
that
fit
in
darknefs,
the
Ministers
of
God
should
have
their
Il(ini[try
full
of
light
;
let
them
take
heed
then
of
mixing
an
thing
of their
ovn.humane invention,
and
the
like; force men
when they
come to preach, they
will have
fine mixture. of
their
own humane
invention
;
the
more
of
humane
invention
is
mixt
wida preaching,_
it
makes
it
give
the
lefs
light, the
fimpliciry
oftheGofpel,
arid
the purity
of
'the
Gofpel
it
is
that lets
in
light to the
foul ,
-a
Minifter fhould
take
heed that
he
doth
not vent
his own pallion.
w
je
Again
further,
hence
is
the
fpecial
providence
of
God over
them, if
they be faithful,
if
they be
fo
they may expect
a
fpe-
cial providence of
God
over them
to
preserve
their
lives and
to
preserve
them
in
their
ways, becaufe
they
are light,
Rev.
j
.
16.
And
he
had
in.,ìis
right
hand feven
Stars,
and
out
o
`
his
mouth went
a
fharpe
two
edged
fiord,
and
his countenance
was
as
the
Sun
fhineth in
his
flrength
:
They
cannot be plucked out
nor
fall
,
for
Chrift
holds them in
his
right hand,
fo
lo:ig
as
Chrift would
have
light to fhine.in
any
place
he
loth
let
out
force Star or
other
to
them
to
give
light
;
and
others they
Thine
to
people but
as
the
fnuffe
of
a
candle
in
the
rocket
of
a
candleflick, they had light
in
their
youth
,
but
now they have
drowned thole excellent parts
that
formerly they had, they
have drowned
them
in
fenfual
Tufts
and
delights of the fled,.
Further,
They fhould rejoyce
in
the
knowledge
that the
3
Vf
,people
get, God
forbid
that Minifters fhould.v
..
at the peo-
ple-