to drowfie SAINT S. Chri!}, adnaimif }red by us ; Writeta, net witk bike, bat with the Spirit of the living Gad, z Cor.3.3.The Epiftle of Civil}, but miuiftred indeed by Chrif}, his is the hand, wee are but the pen ; when we bid you repent,and beleeve, and be holy, and godly, and heavenly minded men , deny your felves, be dead to the world, and alive to God, come out of Sátans power, come into Chrifks Kingdom : It is like Ezehiels bid- ding of the dead honesto gather fe(h, and Rand up living men. All the fucceflè muff needs be ofGod. And therefore what does this teach us? The life of it is : Fir(}, That we that are the Miniffers of' Gcd, can bust make tryall whether we can convert our people, or no ; as the A- pofile !peaks, proving it at any time, God will give them repentance, z 7'ins.2.a 5. ló it is in Lome of your Bibles, fo, we muff make proote : we muff try ; come into the Pulpit every week, and try, fharpen our nailes as fharp as we oan, and ffrike them as farre is as we can, and fo try, often try, as the wifeman fpeaks in another cafè, In the morning few_ thy feed, and in the evening let not thy hand refl. for thou &,nowefl not whether f call profper, this, or that ,or both, Eccle. i t .6. So Jeremiah did, hee would try : firf}, bee went to the poorer fort, to fee whether they would hearken unto him ; when he fad no fucceffc there, then thought he, J will try the great mien, twill get wee to the great men Jet.c.c.we fhculd make affayes, we doe not know, may be God will give us good fbcceffe, we muff make affayes, as it is fad of Pail and Si- lets,7hat they affayed togse into Bithynia, bit the Spirit fufe- red them not,'A6 f. i f.7. O, thought they, here be a great many foules in this Countrey, we will try, whether there be any for Chrif}, yea, or no. Indeed, they found that they had no fùcceffe in their attempt. But tlaey made an affay though.. Secondly, This toacheth us to wait, though we have not fiicceffe prefently, yet we fhould wait, all fucceffs is from Chrift, and therefore it is fit we (would wait for it, and there- fore a Miniffer is commanded to be patient. The fervent of the 23 5 l'fä 2.
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