Soo ThePreachers Plea. but by the skilland induflryof thole men? Surely no but becaufe 'budknew, thatGod wasnot pleatedotherwife toglue deliuerance;thereforehe Paid, that "soon JUraret vnleffe the Mariners taried, the company could notbepreferued. The learned bots doe thusdiftinguifh ofthepower ofGod : It is an abfolritepower, by which bee Laatáflió.tad candoeinfinite things whichhee willnot doe :. fo lobo faid of him , that 'bec was a- ction. ble d thew, ones to rate d Childrennern n lbraham t. A aine , It isana£lnal Hath.x f J,i l P g .. Hte felUm non or a working power , which has executeth in the gemming ofthe World , and the pateneat, things therein : Nowwhen wee fpeakeof the power of God in this fence, it gad", vult. may bectruly laid , That hoe savriotdoe, that whichbee will not doe, So touching al. in lib.de reaching, we may fa without any refiraint ofGods ower,that except there SylkeJl,pes P y' Y Y P P vdte eJt, bepreaching,mencannot beefauéd: notthatGod fstyed to the voyce of man, nonpo/7enele. andthat without it he cannotfaue; becaufe the Scripture hathrcuealed to Tortadarrf, vs, thatthefe things are linkedtogether with an indiffoluble knot, praying, Prax, faith,hearing, preaching,fending, There is no praying without Faith, there is noFaith but by hearing,therein no hearing tobeget Faith, butof apreacher fent, that is furuifhedwithgifts from about, for the feedingoftheflecke of a tPee.ç t. are, depending open himk, withknowledge andvnderffaading t. It (hall bec vr. 1,"'3' f. ged (as tee thought you alto touched it) thatwee (hall by this, prejudice them whohaue either lined or diedwithout preaching, for thofe whoenjoy it not now : Ianfwer,that it is one thing what Godcandowhere themeanes is wan- ting, another thing whathe will doe where the mesnra is fupplied. When the people ofIfrael were in thewilderneffe, and were deflituteofthe vicall helpes m tole 6.3r. oftillage, the Lord gese themBreadfrom FAWN toeate m : but as footmanthey came into thepromifed Land, the Ma, eeafed, neitherbadths Childrenof'frae! "IVt+.fas Nan anymore ^. Every man was then rofall to his worke, and nottohope by thorn extraordinary minoen tobee telieued. Tofireugthen the FaithofHess.. k,ysb, theLord laid to him, Tbawfhalt care ;hie yews limb asgrowthofitfe[je, amd thefeeendyeers(rich things as growwithout fowmg, ha piths thodyowqfew yes, o Ifay 37. 30. and reape,andplant e, tal=e. He that(thole twoyeeresbeing expired) had trailed to the former courfes,negleâing husbandry,outof all doubt he might haue bin flamed : and yet before, he that hadcalledGods power to furnifh themwith food without fowing,intoqueftion,had been worthy to be punifhed. Inthe be- ginning of theworlds Creation,God forthe manifeilingof hisown power and glory made light to be,aud theearth tobud forth,before theSun (which to vs is the fountain oflight,and thecherifher ofthe vitali heatwhich isinall things) PGend.3,tt, wascreatedpr yetnow,Godhauingeftablilhedan orderly courfe, we cannot =t. hopeeither oflight in the ayre, or oflife among the creatures vponthe earth, without the Sunne. I doe apply all thefe things thus: the wantofthe meanes ofpub liike preaching in former ages, couldnot bee any hinderancevistoGod eRom.Saç. in fauing thofe Which heknew before v , and whowere ordained mite eternal) life e; eMst. And latn out ofdoubt ofit, that in the dalesof Popery in thisLand, when auk et.sa. TheKeyofknowledge wire vtrwly takenaway{ r and The lawpwifhed from rimPriefp, Mete, is .ta, eurinfellfrom the wife, and theWord fromthe Prophet t , fo that ifaman aidwander from Sea toSea, anddidruanoto andfro, fromthe NortheuenvntotheEcif , to feeke uAmos 8.IC the Wordof thebird, yethe couldnotf'odeit °, I fay, Iamcleereinit, that many then inthat arknes,did(as the prouerbeis)SeedayataCM, littlahsfe, and very ftrangely came to the knowledgeof the truth , fome by the fight of Come par- cels ofScripture, fomebythewritings ofgoodmen, fome by conferencewith others, though the fame were both very feldome andvery fecret, Come by knowing little more then the Lordsprayer inenglilh, andyet had they thatar. furanceof the truth ofit,and feltthatcomfort, and receiued that fweetnes by it . (as the hilioriesoftheChurchmake mention)theywere contentedto facrifice their liues,and tofpend their bell blood tobearwitses to it;whichthe Lord did tlfay.t.9. that it mightappearetoallenfuingages, thatht referendafmalrepanats,easeaethe %ep-
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