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the
manner
of
Chriffs Preaching.
darkneffe
were
it
not
for
the light of
the
word,
they
fhould be
full
of
light
and
fo
ilrould enlighten others
:
Minífters they
should
be filled
with the
will
of
God,
as
'tis
faid
of
epaphras,
in
the 4.
Colo
f: he
prayed for
the
people that they might
be
filled
in
all
the
will
of
God,
v.
r
z.
O
its
an
excellent thing
for
a
Minifter
to
be filled with the will of
God,
as
a
faile is
filled
with the wind
1
Thofe
who are
molt inflru&ed
by
Chrift, they
are
fitteft to
inftruel people
:
Chrift
he
falls
a
preaching
to them, that they
may preach
to the People
:
Thofe cannot preach to
the hearts
of
people
that
have
not
had Jefus
Chritl
Preaching
to their
hearts
before.
And befides,
Chrift
faw
that the
work
was
very difficult
:
the
work
of
the
Miniftry
is
a
hard
work,therefore Chrift
fpends
a great deale of
time,
as
in praying for
them
before,
fo
after
he
had
chofen
them
in inftru&ing
of them,they
were
to be fet
a
s
a
light
upon an
hill
;
and
the
eyes
and
obfervations
of
men
would be upon
them
to
watch
them in
all
their
wayes,
Theymull
beare the brunt
of
all,and
if
there
be
any
hazardabie
work
they mull
approach.
This
work
of God
is
very difficult.
It's
a
Speech
of
Luther,
What
is
it
to
preach
?
But
for
a
man
to
drive
the
envy
of
people
that
are
evill
upon
himfelfe :
And
therefore
it
was
that Chrift made
fuch
a
preparation
of
his
A-.
polies
before they were
to
goe abroad
:
And
that's
the
4.
Confideration
about
the Preface
to
Chrifis Sermon;his
Auditors,
whom he
had.
And then the
ç.
Confideration
by
way
of
Preface is,
The
manner
ofChrifts Preaching, And there
are
3
Things
obfervable
(I
would gladly
take
up all things in
Scripture,
for
the
Scripture is not like
a
Carpenters
Yard, that
a
great deale
of
chips lyes about and are
of
no ufe,
but it's
like
a Golds
-Smith
Shop
that
every
duff
is
precious
,
fo
when we have
to
deale
in
Scripture, we fhould not negle6l
the
leafs
Particle,
for
we
(hall
find
it
of
much ufe.
There
are
3
Things
that
are
recorded
about
the
manner
of
Chills
Preaching.
Firft,