A Trentife o f the Afeïiionrc 3 be Paved that will ; they are like Gállio, they care for none of thefe things ; and therefore now we that are Minifters, mull ftrive to make them care whether they will or no.Cry aloud, (ayes God, (pare not, lift ùp thy voice like a Trumpet, Am my people their tranfgrefons, Ifa. 5 8. t . Do not only fay a Sermon tothem, but cry it : nor only fo, but cry aloud, they are deaf: fpare not, thou wilt never ltir them if thou fpareft. Spare not, fpare neither rich nor poor, neither great norfmak lift up thy voice like a Trumpet, that is, preach fo, that if it be poffible, thou may$ move their af- feetions. It is a fimilitude taken from the Trumpet in bat- tel, though the Souldier be faint - hearted, it will ttir him up with affection to fight. Great Alexander was fo flirted lip at the trumpetting of one Antigenidaan admirable trum- petter, that all his. contagious affeftionswere up, and his fingers did itch to be fighting. So lift up thy voice like a Trumpet, (titre them up, if by any means thou cantt. O they are very dull and fenfeleffe, and hard to be affe,F ed, and therefore we mutt Rudy how to work on their affe- ftions. If ye ask me how mutt the Minifter fir up affections ?. I, anfiaer. Firft, Negatively, not with the enticingwords of mans A mini- wifedom, i Cor.z.4 Some men indeed out of theee words fter mutt do gather, that S. Paul condemnrtd all eloquence and affe- not aft ftUnS iornup ctionate preaching. But this cannot be, that he fhould con- by she en. detnn that which he moft (hewed himfelf, molt of all the ri;mg Apofiles ofChrift: He was fuch an eloquent golden mouth - words of ed man, that the Lycaonians thought he had been another. ° "ns'5Oí.. Mercury, he was fuch a fweet fpeaker,_Aa.:4a z. He was dome. fuch an affeltionate Orator, that he made Agrippa's bowels even earn to be a Chriftian; and Felix to tremble S. Auftin conceived him to' be gifted with fuch an admirable power this way of Almighty God, that it was one of his three wifhes, if he might have it for wifhing; namely, to hear S. Paul to preach in a Nip ; and therefore he does not, condemn.
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