374 Of the e`miliniîlerie. blufh?. Miniflers are the Lordsmeffengers, and theymuffnot carrie withthem(as did Ij Cppt:an.j 0. rion) a letterforthe knowledgeof fuel] things as ferueand tend totheir deftrudion. Dam. ie..ad Hxrer. metro (èipfos ftea vacegai fuifimilesininferno damnant, with their ownewordsdo they con. o 'Catq:d Se demne themfélues which do condemne fach as be like themfelues in the heels. NI aske dc,aÌ t manofthe right way, andhefhalpointatone way,andhimfelfewilgo another way, Iwit idi<ameal n looked' on dietbautie of follow is neighbours wife,albeit thatwoman ft llremaine defiringtie fegnaas fed they mureherers indoing , as muchasin themlieth tokilby their lewdexample,the foules ÌusMini- of their brethren,although theLord byhis merciepreferuethem from contagion. Ancud flee Nifus dia. tptnifter is thediuelshauke, he is thediuels belt fa&our. SurelySermonsconfuted6yan coil ha, lift,are like to milks turnedin thefeerhing. Bypreaching they hew timberout of the thicke a.Cor.9e9 trecs,bycoil lifeagaine, they breake downethe carved worke,as with axesandhammers, 71' illkfe Prat Batwhereunto (hall I compare them ?The be liketo fpittle-men , perfit in the ofatirujters wayes neuer ours lying ftilltlren-delues. They be like Heraulds at lìorodaage- Y they g , row. Armes fettsngtlseir Orioles together by thecures , they themléloesneuerftrike oneftroke, liketomarksin thehigh waies,which rotteaway tlemfelues whilesthey ftardinftrubting Sirale: othersin theway, or tobelscalling other to theplaces where theyrseuercome, to blacke fopemaking white,andremaining black;to blunt whetf{ones,which fharpen other things butthey continue dulltorough ragged files,finoothingal other things,themfelues remai- ningrough and not clranged;to Noah(Quip- wrights,whic6make the Arke,but theinfelues werenot faued in it. t t When a certaine man hadputMailer Foxe in mindeof one, on whom. beingutili- dted inmind Godblefled his minilterie, and askedhim ifhewereyet inhisremembrance, yes, Paid he, I forget lordand lady,butI rememberfuels. na Acertaine man faid that in our agemany Minifters werelike toferuants who liad Simile. longlinedvnder a goodMafter,fó as theyhadgottenfome competentflocke,vpon thein- create whereof they didfomuch attend,thattliey negleltedand fprgat theirancient care for:heir mafter. 7; Heobferued that fomefpeakin 'gagainfeloquence,didfauourmuchofanhumane Eloquence in fpiritin theirPreaching, which is as miler werfe. For eloquenceisnoe fimplyforbidden, preeehing. but when it waited' on carnall wifdom, for otherwife ioynedwith thepowerof the word, and demon(tiation or euidence of the fpirit, it iseffelluall : buthumane wifedome,very barrenand deftituteofeloquence is atilt. 14 Itwere neceffaryin theChurchof God,asInfaahminiftredto Mafia,ElifhatoEll; . ah,Samaelto Elk, Gehezi toElifha,Baruch toIeremiah,the Difciplesto Chriff,Timothie to Paul,thatlikcwifeeuery learned godly Paftor fhouldtraine vp Come youngfcholler, to commend him the better, andto enablehim the moreto the Church. "armenߢ with 15 The Canons of the gere. the f that is, youmoltt rrefraine curry in:he.7a úße- commandement of God,for they call thole Odra. As, Feede my fheepe,wemuff difiìnguith . ric,v,bo bydi- of that, by that old diftinttion:eitherbymy felfe or byanother,and fometimes by myfelft fsnliom there are the promifes of God, which they make fo large,thatthey maruell, how one that b1' 1'1 ; is conuerfant in the Scriptures can bee but a wicked man. But David laththe contrary vve °tbat za¡eh Pfal.t rg.Lord thycommandements arefo broadthat I amaltonied at them: and thepro- bos.smnorxa;t miffs are letforthwith fomany conditions that they fhal find them very narrow. Cephahu contro:esf:e, as Iread, whowas anAtheift,whenhe was yong,comming tobe old,faid,what if thereby. rngicroibwbà- an belt,what ifthere bea punilhment? Sowhen wehauemade vs a commandement toour Itarddfii,i irfelues, outofthatPafcefeedr,thenatlengthwefhailcometofay ,whatifChrifthismea- ens. ningwas notfometimes,andby another?Thenthey would giuethat they got,andaihou Precepts large fand times asmuch more,iftheyhad it, tobee ridde ofthat,1f peraduenture. Inadonbt- andpremifer full precept, notethat which is Jerre. .lufiinhath thisrule : Thisfenfeis goodandgodly, nmro -sa. and to is that hoick both forï*eare of aquidfi, what if I Cooke the wrong feules In a Interdum& > , perai:um. matter of controuerfie, remember both waye5. Who would not bee their fcholhers, Sifont, who may bee fó indifferent but it is not fo. Thereis a rule out of Seneca : I doe du
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