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Works
of
a
Minr./ler á
great
Works.
he
prayed
-nor
onely for
them
that were
prefent, but
for all
others after that fhould beleeve
:
fo
certainly,
Chrift
when
he
fpent
this whole
night
in prayer,
did
not pray
only
for
the
a
a. Apoflles, but
for. all tl ofe
that
Should
foe
in
the-
Miniftery,
tö
preach the Gofpel ofChrift to the end
of
the
World:
---
But
now having fpent
all
the night
in
prayer, then
in
the
mor
ring
the
firfl thing he Both,
is
to
choofe his
twelve
Apoflles,
and
when
he
bath done, he
Peeing
the
multitude
cone
to hint,
do_h
a
little
retire-
himfelfe from them
and
falls
a
preaching,
and
preaches this
excellent
and
notable
Sermo
i
that
we
ate
now beginning
CO
freak
of
:
After Chritl had
been all
night
up,
yet
next day he
tells
a
preaching;
You
fee Chriff is.not
fo
tender
of
his
body;Thofe that
had
been tender over him,would
have
been
ready
to
fay
that
he Should go and
Ileepe,
what
duals
he tire
and wear
our
his
body,having
tat
up
all
night,and (pent
himfelfe
in
prayer
?
(as
there's
no
eNercife
that
is
more
fpen-
ding
to the
body then prayer
)
yet
after
all
this,
the next
morning
Chritl
he takes
this opportunity
and falls a
prea-
ching.
Teaching thus much that the
Minifers
of
the
Gofpel should
not
be
'too
nice and dainty
of their bodyes, not to
be aiwayes
wh5ning and
_
complayning
of
the
'weaknefle
of body,
and
spending
of
themfelves, (and fech things) but
if
there
be
Sop
-,
portunity
given for fervice
They
thould
be
-
readysit'o
take
it
alr:oeghitt;:ouldbe
atvearinefie
and
fpending,
what
if-it
Should ihorrten
thcir
deyes
a
little
while,
is
it
not
all
one
to do
a
great
deale,
of
good
in
a
little
time,
or
to
do
a
little
good
in
a great
deale of
time
;
to
doe
a
great
deale
in
a
little
time
is
the
moré
comfortable: A
mans
life is.to be
reckoned
aècor-
ding
to
his
fervice, notaccording to
how many years he lives
Chritl
he preaches this long Sermon
(the
longeft
that ever he
he did
preach for ought we know)
and
it
was
the
morning
after
he had.been
up all
the night
a
praying.
Further
obferve,
from this
time
of
the
Sermon
of Chritl
:
what
a
notable Sermon
Both
Jefus Chrift:Preach, after
he had
been thus praying,
It's
a
moll heavenly
Sermon
.
And
that prayer that
he had
a
little
before
he
dyed,
from
the
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