Chap.6, An Expolitlon upin the Beok iif Ns: , Veff,i5= Thou that teacheff another, seashell those not thy fè /fo ? thgst -that preacheft a manfhéuld.not doeft. tboss Aeal A_ thon that fayeft a man fhould not commit adultery, doeft thou commit adrtl- tery, e7c.2re the Apoilles chiding expotlulationswith the Jewish. Doe`lors,Rom.2. And upon this he charges them with difhonoring God., and caufing his name to be blafphemed among the Gen- tiles, verf. 23, a4.. But what was the blCaphemy ? Surely this, The Gentiles grew to have a low elteeme of the word- of God,: his law was of no force with them, becaufe thoCe teachers were ío falle to it, and unfpoke with their lives, whatfoever their tongues had fpoken. That which hath no force upon the fpea- hersheart,hath feldome any upon the hearers. What doe your teachings teach, or your comfortings comfort ? what doe your arguings argue, or your reprovings reprove ? Shall vice reprove fin ? as we fpeak proverbially or if he doth. fin is not much hurt with thoCe reproofs. Words fpoken from the heart, goe, to the heart, and words read in the life, are mots forcible to reforme the life; Then the wordgoesforth cloathed with lift and power when the preacher can read his Sermon in his own heart, and the people in his life. He that fpeaks onely out of books, does much after hit.. rate, who (as wefay Weak,. without book, And he that lives not. what hefpeakes ( what in him lies ) killswhat hefpeakes. Andbow (hall fuck a dead letter ( almo/t a miracle if it dotb ) conveigh a quickningfpirit ? Such arguings, feldome reprove any but the arguer, and him they alwayes reprove. Zzzz JoB
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