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Minifters
fhould hold
forth
drsties
and
ordinances publickly.
we
are awakened in our tufts; all
the
Iviinifters
of
God
and
Cha-itt
;
God
bath
put
them
in
a
place of eminency,
therefore
it
iIaould
be
their
care to
walke inoffenfive, becaufe
the
eyes
of
traen
are
upon
them,
Our
Saviour
Chrift
makes this
an
Ar-
gument
that they fl,ould
walke exaétly in
their
wayes,
and
let
their
wayes
thine
before
men,
becaufe the
eyes of
men are
upon
them,
it
concernes
all
Mini-tiers and
Chriftians
to
walk
inoffenfve,
becauîe
the
eyes
of men
are upon
them, and,
therefore
walke
inoffenlive,
take
heed
when they looke
upon
you,
that they doe not
fpie
out fome bale and evil! way,
that
they
doe not
fpie force
tlthinefs
and
impuritie
in you
con
-
verfations, this
will
be
to.
the dilhonour
of Chrift,
and
to your
ewne
dithonour.
And.further, that Chrift faith, that
.Ivtinifters
and
Chriflìans
,
are
in
the view
of
all
others
,
it
fhould
teach rhofe
that
are
godly to maintaine
the
honour of the
Ivlinitters
of
the Gofpe!.
But further,
this
is
the
maine
thing that
our
Saviour
ames
at,
.
a-Citie
on
a
hill
;
I
fend
you
to
preach, doe not
you
regard
your owne cafe,
but
doe
you
hold forth
my
truths,
and mine'
ordinances publickly.
Note.
It
the
duty of
-all
)k/inif
ors
and
-
C'hriftfans,
to
hold
forth
all
duties,
all
ordinances
to
the
utternsofl they
are
-abl'y
to
the
vitro
of
all
the
world.-
Therefore whofoever
(halt in
any
private
way,
exercife
any
ordinance,
as
the
preaching of the
Word, if
they might doe
itl.ublickly, there
is
no
man
that
is
faithful!,
that
lovs
Jefus
Chrifl,
hut he would
rather
doe
it
in
a
publick
way
a
great
deale. But if
-any
dothit
in
a
private
way, and
might doe
it
publickly,
certainly he
loth
o:`fend
againft
this
Scripture;
yet
I
would notlhave you
to
be
hinderers of
men
in ptiblick!
and
afterward
to
cry
out of them
in
private.
The
Apofiles
they
preached publickly, they
carne
and preached
in
the
1
ample,..
but
they.could not break breäd
,there',
they could
not,