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v
fea
we
ere
to
make
of
the
Minißry
of
the
Gofpel.
649
ple
that they
have found
knowledge,
fo
Minihers
ihould
be
like
light;light
fhines
on
dunghils,and
do
:h
not defile
it
felfe
;
fo
Minihers
in
places should labour
to doe
good
to
all , and
to
the
work
of
all, and
to fute himfelfe
tivirh
them
,
but not
fo
farre
as
to defile
himfelfe
;
if
a
Miniher
converfeth with
any,
it
is
to thine
on
them,
take
heed therefore
of being
defiled
with
their
converfation.
Learne to prize the
Minifiery
of the
Gospel
,
becaufe
it
is
a
Life,
To
the
that that
is
the light of the world,
and they bring
the light
of
people
,
To
God
unto you, bleffe
God
that ever the Gofpel hath corne
prize the
M3-
amongti you,
that ever
God
was
pleafed
in
mercy
to
lock on
you in
your
generation
;
As
if
he should
fay ,
though
I
have
left
many
generations
to
perish for want
of
the light of the
Gofpel; yet
this generation
íhall
have
the light of the
Go-
fpel
;
though
there
are
many
that feeke
to
blow out
the lights,
yet,
faith
God,
I
will
keep thefe lights
in
my
right
hand, for
why
I
have
the
number
of
mine
elect
ones.
So
long
as
God
keeps the light of the Gofpel
fnhing
amongfi
them,
it
is a
ligne
that
God
hath good
for
them,
be willing
to
mainraine
the
charge
;the
light,
is
there
any
man in
the world that know-
eth
what
it
is
to
fee
the light, he
would
rather
give
ten
thou
-
fand
pound
,
then
to
be
without the light. In
Chry
fotemet
time, the
good
peoph
t
hat
lived
in
them, were
fo
affected
with
the light
of
the
Gofpel-
that
Chryfofiorse
preached to
f
brv;o(forAtrx
them,
that they profeffed
it
were
better
for
the
Sunne
to.
yZiñiíf¢ry
bem
withdraw her beames,_then the
mouth
of Iohn
Chryfoyiorrze.to
loved
with
be
fiopt,
John
was a
burning
and
(pining
light, therefore
pre-
the
people.
cious, and
therefore
Herod.
needed
not
have
flood
fo.upon his
oath, he might have faxed
Johns
head,
for
his oath was
that
he
would
give
to the
halfe
of
his
kingdome
;
but when
the
-asked
the
head of John
the
Baptih,
he
was
fad, he
would not
re;eta
her
for
his oaths fake
;
wee
-
£Mould
account
the light
a
migh-
ty Netting.
Now
fuppofe
we
that live
in
thefe
parts
of
the
world,
that
never
had
feene the light of
the
Sunne in
all our
-
dayes,
if
fo
be
that the
rinse
that
God
appointed the
Sunne-
to
corne,
fhould
have
been
at
this
time,
and
wee
irould
have,
feeke,
the
Sunne
riling in
its
glory
and
beauty,
how.tíaould
we
O
o o
o.
have!