13g ( DaE#: CHRISTS 41arm truth is, people know not their damned c(fate, neither will they beleeve it, though we tell them ; nay, they care not whe- ther they hear it or no. But if they knew the goodneffe of it they would run from Eel. to Well for it : ifdrunkards, and' worldling!, and filch rabble : knew their fearfull eaate, the Miniffer should be as welcome to them, as bread to the hun- gry, or a pardon to a Theife ; So that yee fee this condem- neth them deeply, that the Word hath no fucceffe with. Thus yee fee the Miniffers of Chrift have all fucceffe from Chri(f, if any one foule come in at their teaching, it is an evident lgne, it is of Jefus Chri; for otherwife people hold off, Tome hold off altogether , others yeeld a little way, but will not yeeid full out ; if a man yceld to us indeed, it is meetly by Jefus Chrift. Now J will (hew you, that as a Mini(ler bath all his good (itcceffe of his labours from Jefus Chrift. So if he be a true Miniffer of Chrift, Chrift u!es to give him good fuc- ceffe.When thrift put Peter into the Minittery. He told him from henceforth thou fhalt catch men. Luk.S.TO. That is, as J have made thee a Miniffer, So thou (halt have good. fucceffe. They (hall have fóme good fucceffe, as we fee in the parable though three parts fell into hard ground, yet force fell into good ground,Mark, 4.8. Nay,though Chrif cs Minu tera come into the moff Delperate places that can be, as we read in the Acts of the Apofllcs, notwithaanding the places they went to were deepely rooted in Idolatry and full of perfecu- ting Jewes, and they were ready to be Boned to death, the people were fo inadde againft their Doo`frine ; yet they never Preached any where, but they had good fitccefle with Come. When Paul came to Theffalonica, the text notes, foam of them heleeved and joyned in Company with him. Aéf.T 7.4, W hers he came to Athens, though fomc mocked, and force hung in fidpence,like Neuters,that were neither fifh,npo.r flefh, howbeit certaine men slave unto Paul,and beleevedAdt.t 7. ?4 So when he carne to Rome. Though team flood out, yet Come were perfwaded,AEf.2,3.z4. Yea when Philip came to Sama- ria,
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