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Three Thingc
"about
the manner
of
Chriffs
Preachng.
15
Firfl, That Chrill did
fit and preach.
Secondly,
That he
'opened his
mouth
and fpake.
And
then
the
3
is,
That
Chrifl
faflned
his-eyes upon
his Difciples,
that
you have in
the
6.
of
Lnk
.
But we
have
z of thefe
in
Match: That
he
fat
and
opened
his
mouth and'
fpaks
;
For the
fitting,
Chrifl when
he,preached,
he
fat
down, he
did not
Band
as
Preachers
do
now:'
And we
find
it
was
the.
ordinary
way
of
preaching among
the
7ewes,
for
the
Preacher to
fit down
:
In
the
z
3.
Match:
2.
7
he Scribes
and
Pharifees
fit
in
Mofes
Chair, hearethem, and do what
they
fay, faith
Chriff, though
do
not what they
doe,
and fo
you
fhall
find
it
in
the
zq..
Math:
3
.
v.
&
Chap.
z6..5
5.
you shall
fee
.
in
both
there
places
that
Chrifi
when he came
to Preach
fat
down
:
he flood up when he
read the Law,
but
when
he Prea=
ched
he fat downe, and
fo
in
the
q..
Lnke
2o. In
all
thefe
Scriptures
you may fee
it
was
the
manner in
Preaching to fit
down
:
Now
fome would make
a
fgniftcancy
in
it
;
but
h
take
it,
it
was only
a
civil
geaflure, that Chrifl
obferving what
the
way
was
at
that time, he
would conformhimfelfe
to
the
orderand
way
of
fitting,
not that
it
had
any
fpirituall
fignifica-
don
:
As now,
the
French
Minifters, they
Preach
with
their
Hats
on,
I'ts
the
cuflonle
there,
and
no
Queflion,
if
any one
.
were to
go among
them
it
were fit they should obferve
the
cuflomes
that they
have
:
and
fo
here,
to
fit downe, and-in-
other
Churches
to
l+and:
You will fay,Doth not this iuflifie
the
conforming
to
Cere
monies,
in-Churches
:
Chrifl
you fee
conformed to this
Cere
mony
of
f
sting
:
and
why'
had we
fuch
a
air
about kneeling
at-
Sacrament
?
And
Now to
Anf,ver,.that
cleerly thus,
you
mull
know
the
dif
e
rence
óf
Ceremonies,
whatfoever
Ceremony
is
but
meerly
natural
or
civil,
and
is
but
helpful ro
the
worfluip of
God
in
a
natural
and
civil
way,
certainely
we
fhould conforme
to the
cuflomes
of
Churches wherefoever we come.
But
now
when
a
Ceremony
conies
to
have
a
fpiritualufe,
and
to
have
by
the
infitútion
of
man fume fpiritual
thing
put
upon
it,a's
our
Cere-
monies