33g Chap.4. 4 Com untarievpon Luk. 7. 1S. The like ought we to doe for our offences and firmes. The earth-quake this winter pall, mufl flirrevsvpto this dutie. For it is a matter full ofterrour, r.Sam, i 4. i 5. and the ficknefTe which bath taken holdof thoufands as a gentle warning mull be refpeeled. And it mull be confidered, that the changes of the great world bring with thetas l,kechanges in the little world, that is, in the bodies ofinen. . A aine,ta change thevoice, is to conferre with theGalatians, and vpon conference to temper his voice to their mannersand condition, as nources flammer and hfpe with children. For Tome are with pitie tobe recouered: andfome with terrour. Iud.22.23. Hence I gather, That the Conference ofParlours and people, is a thineve. ry neceftarie. Paul hereafcribes more to it then tohis Epifle.It is the lifeofpreaching. For by it the teachersknow better what to teach , and the people better to conceiue things that are taught. Here then we feea common fault. Men are content to heare,but theywill not conferrewith their teachers : and in the timeof fickneffe , the firfl perron that is conferred with , is the Phyfitian: and the Minifler is !aft lent for:whereas on the con- trarie, the cure of the foule is the cure of the bodíe. Iob 33. 23.25. Againe , here is fet downe the way to attaineall good lear- ning : and that is, that learners be prefent with their teachers : and the teachers againe temper their voices to the capacitie of the learners. Thus Samuel was with Eli at the loreof theTa- bernacle i thus Chritl was in theTempleamong the doelours hearing them andasking them cluefltcns. Luk.2.44. Thirdly, Paul here lets downe theway to make a pacificati- on for religion in there lafl dales : and the way is, that the Pa- flours of the Church be affembled together by the authoritie ofPrinces: and beeing aflèmbled,they temper their voices one to another according to the written word. Thus may they that lie now vnder theApoflafie of Antichrifl, be recouered, Mt. 15.6. And the promife of God is, that when two or three come together in hit name, he willdewith them,. Matth. i 8. LaPdy, the Miniílers (as here we fee) are to temper their gifts and (peach to the condition of their hearers. The Corin- thians were babes in Chrifl , and Paul feedesthemwithmilice. Y..Cor.3. 3. to the Iew he became a Iew, to the Gentile a Gen- tile, 5 to 15 20 a5 30 35
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