to xlravfie S t g. !Ö; more juf3ly may our people lay f'o to us.; Ó firs doe sot ye care that we perifh? they may even coat and.awaken us, Sirs, Care ye not that we perifh ?Doe not you fee how dead we are, how heardned, how ignorant of God, how empty of grace, how backward to that which is good ; how prone to loofa our foules ; and doe not you care that we perifh ? Why doe not you labour more to quicken us, and move us, and to drive us out of our by-wayes, that we may come into the right way and live ? When Archippue was fomewhat dead in his Miniftry, Saint Paul bids the people of Coloffe to :goe and awaken him ; fay to Archippue ,° Tae ,(geed to the Miniflry which thou haft received is the Lord, that thou ful- fill it, Col. 4.iy. Well then. Thirdly, another Life is an ufe of Exhortation, that we la- bour for a quickning Miniflry,that our Miniflryy be a reviving ordinance of God; that we may as Efay faid,Thougb l frail be net gathered yet Pall I be glorious, I fa.49.5. So though our people be not quicken'd yet fhallwe beglorieue, we have done what in us lyes for to quicken them. C onfider firft, this is the end of all true Miuiflers preach- ing, that they may bring life into the hearers hearts as the Prophet fats, Heart, and your Rules frail live, Ìfa.55.3 Wherefore elfe do we Preach, but that thedead may heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and live? People are alive to that which they flieuld be dead unto,and they are dead to that which they fhould be alive unto, they are alive to the world, and the things of the world, and dead to God and all good - neflè; dead to the bombing of their foules, dead to the.feck- ing of Gcd dead "to Prayer, dead to the holy communion of the Saints, dead to holy comfort and meditation, and what ever clfc may doe their forays good? Now wherefore doe we Preach, if not to quicken up your hearts,that your foules may live for "ever ; they have knowledge already, more know- ledge then they are quickened up to our ermine intention then fhbcild be to quicken th:m up tq doe what they know ; are we not Towers of feed ? why then we fhould molt labour fo D d a to i
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