226 I CHRIST'S 41árm. of it agorae When a man hath been !"wearing and lying,. then to turne into the Preacher, and here of that very fume, and the danger of it, and the damned eflate of the committers of it W hen a man bath Beene chinking to do evill, thensoit , in his feat and heare his evill rips up, and all his fectets laid open , and woe to you wretch , that devife evil1, the Lord knowes your devilifh intentions, ye are thinking to be reven- ged, but God will be revenged on you, ye are minding to go by-and -by to filch a piece of villany, but the Lord will find you out. This is preaching in feafon. So when afoule can- not be call downe, but when he comes to Sermon, there he meets with his owne cafe, his temptations are treated of, . wine and óyle is powred into his wounds, this is ,to preach in due feafon. O what gifts had a Minifler need to . haúe I He had need of daily influence from God : Dai y inílin ls that God f}aould guide his tongue and his heart. Now,Belo -. ved, it is Chrifl alone that gifts, all his true Miniflers. J will be with thr mouth,fayes he to Mofes. vie The ufe of this is. Fitft, here we fee that a Minder had not need be a foole, no; no, he that winneth foules,is wife, Prov. I I.3o-. he mull be a wife man that would be a M inifter, it re- quires more then humaine wifedome to catch fòules, when the heart bath fo many put -offs, fo many deceits, fo many flrongholds, fo loth to obey the word , fo fubtill to invent excules, fo crafty to thurft áway the truth ; There is forme wif- dome required to catch fifses, and birdes, and vermine ; how much more, to catch men ! who is fùflïcient for thefe things? The Bell of us all may blufh to thinkehow unfit we are to be Minifters. O how fbould we bleffe God, if he fit any of us in any fuitable meafure ! and when we have done our heft, we had need to goe home, and downe on our knees, and cry frame on our (elves for not doing better. Pie a. Secondly, Then they are Crone ofChrifts *ßiniltersthat ars- not gifted for this mighty worke. Will he !and a foole on fuch awaighty Mefl'age as this is? He the fendeth a Me;Q"age by the. hand of s faole,eutteth.of thrfeet and drinketh domormagc, Pro. 26.6. That i
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