to eirol7lie SAINTS. Chrili rrsscifind, even as if hee were Craseifeed before his peo- ples eyes, Gal. 3.1. fo A'fofes had a very lively Miniftey ; the Text layes, hee let before them life and death; hee labou- red to Preach with that evidence, as if her had fet before their eyes life and death, heaven and hell, good and evill ; when a Knitter preaches in the evidence , and the densonffration of the Spirit, a Cor. z. 4. when bee labours to bring the Got.- pelf plainly to mens hearts ; a Haan may teach the Gotpel,but it is not Preaching, except he let it lively forth, and labour to make people fee it, this is the Truth, and this is your lime a- gainf1 that truth, this is the DoEtrine, and thus you fàile in the tto&rine, this is the threatn'ng ofGod,and thus you lye under the tbteatnir.L; otherwife they heare a Sermon, as if it did not concerne them. Secondly, comming to particulars ; generals are but dead ; we fee they leave people dead, people have a hundred trickes to put them off ; but when a Preacher comes to particulars, hee eyther quickens or fleyes, he convinces either to life or to death ; when a Minifter layes the truth at every mans doore. he preffes it upon every mans heart , he, meets with many a - put off, he makes everyContiience, fay J am the man, except they be a- fleepe or their minis are a wooll - gathering , hee darts into his hearers faces, a view of their particular eflates he touched) their copy -hold, he confutes their falle pleas, and knocks off the fingers that would be applying of a Prom/life when it does not concerne them, and .puts it onely upon the Soule to whom it does belong.. This is lively Preaching that gives to every foule .his due, tertour to whom terrour,comfort to whom comfort belongs milke to the Babe, farong meat to the growne, ogleto the brill fed and a fw ord to the hard heart, a whip for the Horfe, and a bridle for the Affe , and a rod for the Fades back.!, Prov.a6. 3. Application is the life of Prea- ching ; this ferves to condemne furch a one, this ferves to con- fute filch a one, when a Minifler does as Paid layes, divide the Word aright, a Tim. 2. t t. Thirdly, by worrying of people out of their frnnes, when 107 2. 3.
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