3 3 2 Wherefore tae you fo encroach't of late yeares upon truth, is, becaufe we have not walk't the bounds with our people in acquainting them with, and flablifhing their judgements on thefe fundamen- tal points, fo frequently and carefully as is requifite. And people are much in the fault, becaufe they calf fo much contempt up- ; on this work, that they count a Sermon on fuch points next to loft, and only childes meat. Secondly, thole truthes are oft to be preachit, which Minrgers obferve to be mefl undermined by Satan or his instruments in the judgements and lives of their people. The Preacher muff read and study his people as diligently as anybook in his fludy;and as he findes them,difpenfe like a faithful fteward unto them.P4/41 takes notice that the Galatians had been in ill handling by falfe A- pofiles, who had even bewitch't them back to the Law in that great point of Juftification, and fee how he beats upon that point. Our people complain, we are fo much, fo oft reproving the fame errour or fin, and the fault is their own, becaufe they \ will not leave it ; who will blame the dog for continuing to bark, when:the thief is all the while in the yard A las.5 alas, it is not once or twice rowing againft fin will do it. When people think the Minifter fhews his lazinefft, becaufe he preacheth the fame things, he may thenbe exercifing his patience, in.continu- ing to exhort and reprove thole who oppofe, waiting, if at laft God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, We ambit) ro lift upour voice like a trumpet, and would you have us ceafe while the battel faits, or found a retreat when it fhoutd be a barrel ? Thirdly, truths of daity ufe andpractice. There are like bread and fait, whatever elfe is on, thefe muff be on the board every male, Saint Peter was of this minde, 2 'Pet. I. 12. 1 will not be negligent to put you always inremembrance of thefe things, though p know them. He had (you may fee) been (peaking of fuch gra- ces and duties, that they could not paffe a day without the exer- cise ofthem, and therefore will be ever their Monitour,to fir up- their pure mindes-about them. All is not well, when a man is weary ofhis ordinary food, and nothing will go down but ra- rities ; the flomack is fickly, when a man delights rather to pick fome fillet, then eate offo lid meat, and how far this dainty age is gone in this fpiritual difeafe,. I think few are fo far come to thern?- . . . . . .. z.. . . .
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