CHRIST'S harm There is a blefling that may be looked for by reading. Nell fed rs he that readeth Rev.t .3. But this is very rare. There may a fifh or two hang on the net, being let downe on a heape, but that is a chance. No, no, it is not the net lapped up togenccr that bringeth in the dra sght, but hayled out at length and 1pread all abroad, this cloíeth in the fifh. So it is the 1preading of the Word, the Stretching of it out upon every fòule prclent, this is the way to catch form When a Knitter labours to hit all. Fourthly fame Minifters may be unfucceffefirll for not preaching roughly enough. Beloved, our times are knotty times.Rough hewing is needful. Now people had need heare of hell and damnation, and wrath and vengeance,againft their fins, Some fave with feare, as the Apoftle 1peaks, p/seeking them ,ut of the fire, Jude ag. Fifthly, Again, May bee a Minifters fuccefie is not fees; may be he is rucceffefull, though he (hall not live to fee it, as Chrift layes, One fowes and another reaps, Joh,4.37. as the Prophets fowei, and the Apoftles reapt : So, Beloved, we may íòw now, and thole that come after us, may bee they Shall be the reapers. The prefent age, now may low feed for the fucceeding. Arbores ferit, qua alteri profit utfaculo. As theChinah make their difhes : the Fathers lay them into the fire, and the third generation after takes them oat. Though we doe not lee our feeds to come up ; may be we meet with no harvefl, this may be our comfort, if we can but low, for others afterwards to reap. Let us have a care of lowing, many a man that now hears the word, and now is brought up under a °ocd teaching Minifte.ry, though yet he doe not obey it, who knows what God will doe ? may be God may call him into fonie horrible afi &ion yet before he dyes, and Bing terrour into his Soule, and then what we have delive- red may doe him good : And therefore we (hould never lin (owing, though wee never fee the Harve(t : this Should bee our comfort, that the ground bath the feed. Let us (till powre in good precepts and examples into our people ; Parents into their
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