to droWlie SA;<NTS. nifler knows bee bath but one underflanding judicious hear er, one gracious Soule in his Parifh,it provokes him very much, it makes him look about him the more, a great dcale : How much more, when there be many fxch? But when a Parifh is fenfelcf1e, and heavy, and froward, it is unipeaka- bleto confider how it firaitens a Miniher: Let a man be to pray in a meeting, where they bee graceleffe, and dull, and hardly any almoflgodly, hee cannot tell what to fay alinoR, lice is not himfelf. Whereas, if he were to pray among them that hee knows can favour gracious things, there hee bath more liberty to let out him felf. i t E v E L . 3. I . Thefethings,faith bee, that bath the fevers Spirits, of God, and the fven Starres. And the fivers Starres. THey have their gifts and abilities from him. Now J pro- ceed on to the fourth. That be bath the pre fpering of D.Etr, theca : They have the fucceffe of their labours from jeius Chrifl. Cbrift bids us preach, Repent, repent, but it is he that mull give Repentance.; So, Pend preached to Lydia, and had good iùcceffe, for the text thews how fhe was converted by his Miuiilery : But, it was God that opened her heart. As Xebeccabcookt the Venilon, but Ifaac gave the blefluiag. So we mray cooke the Word for you, but the bleffing is in Chrifis hands, as the Apofile fayes. We areMintfters by whom yee Beleeved, even as the Lord gave to every man, I Cer.3.5. that ís, when wee preached among you we had good fucceffe ; you beleeved. What? as we would our (elves ? No, Alas we would faite have had you all to Beleeve : but even as the Lord gave to every, man, the fucceffe was as he would ; fo to Tome he gave only convietton by the word to force onely knowledge. to force good reformations, to force a true faith. It was as he was pleafed to give to every man. So when he S 1 reached
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