A Treatife of the Affections. preached Chrilt to the life ; fo evidently, and fo plainly, had he preached Chrift crucified, as if they had teen him crucified before their eyes. Certainly thought he, tllefe peoples affeftions are bewitched,that are no better wrought on. When Galba would . perfwade the Spaniards againfl Nero for his cruelty, he let out fo vifibly his cruelty, that they might even fee it with their eyes. Lycurgiu fo expref- fed the difference of good education and of bad, that the people might even fee it with their eyes. Not as though preachers should do as they did, or as fome that I have read of, have done ; who brought a dead skull into the pulpit, that the people might fee death even with their eyes. We have no fuch warrant in Scripture ; but they mutt, do it with the lively teaching or the truth. And therefore ¡ the Apoftle fayes, that true preaching is in the demonftration of the fpirit, i Cor, 24 When the truth is demonflrated with evidence. Secondly, By being full of a f ellions hi,nfelf:Affection in the fpeaker is likely to beget affection in the hearer. It cannot be otherwife, fates Cicero. Cicero being an excellent fpokef- man,whenever he pleaded before the people of Rome,to be- get any affeftions in them,he would be Pure to put on thofe affeftions himfelf. If he would move them to grief, he would be full of affeEtion of grief. When to pity he would be full of affections of pity,when to anger, his countenance would be ful of anger.The highefl point of moving the of eEti- ons in another, is to be endued with thofe affections thy felf, fayes,Qintilian. It is an old maxime in Oratory, and in all moving of the affections of others, PeEtus eft good facit, difertos. It is a mans own breaft that makes him to be affe- ctionate and eloquent. If a mans own breaft be piteous, and full of compaflion and bowels, that man is an eloquent perfwader to pity. If a mans own breaft be loving, and kinde, and full of affeftions, that man is an eloquent fpea- ker to move love : Si vir me fiere, dolendum primum i pfe tibi, If thou wouldeft have rpe weep, weep thy Pelf firä. What mean y y, By bcing lull or af. fcaions i !3im(elf. Sum m4 movendo. rum cffc ftuum in eoeft, ut driur ire fir nro!ur._ Qu n Hor. dc a,t. Poet i
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