inW,J':ori.' ; 0.41-ogáiíie,«` . , é ce ' g 1I0 CBAP.E. Ats Expofitiots vpon the frff V a a. a. VERS. 3.4. Our exhortation svae not ofdeceit, nor of ameleanneffe, nor, in guile: B 4 as wee were allowed of god to bee put in trafl with the Gofpell,fo we (peak not as pleaftatg men,b et Gad which try - 1 etb our heart.. o-asit- w,. -'4 He words containe two Ipeciall euiden- 1 \ ces of Pauli finceritie, fet out in an An- y tithefi.r; wherein hee fir(} remooues from him certaine oppoftes of fìnceritie; impo. ,ï ryaTu. ,/store, impuritie,guile. Secondly, atl'umes the propertie of a Minifter dealing fin- cerely in his calling: hefoughttopleafe God; and there. ofgiues : Firft, Gods fauour towards him in approouing him fo fare, as to entrufl him with the Gofpell. Secondly:the meditation of Gods omni- fcience, and power to difcerne fecrets. The Connexion thus conceiue;he had fáid,thar at Phi- lippi he had met with many afiEtions ; and becaufc it might be demanded what the reafon might be, his prea. cling should bee thus attended with troubles; it is af- figned here : the matter of his Doetrinc, and manner of his ca'riage in it : bis exhortation, or preaching was not,as' that of falfe A potties, fitted to the corrupt opinions, and vncleane manners of men. No manuell therefore ifatten- ded with tribulations. It is then no new thing that a ci!inijer dealing faithft ly in his Calling, Aould be attended with pert cottons: can y lee hirnlelle neuer fo meckely and peaceably amonglt men. 1 Ieremies complaint is knowne, a man that had no dea- ling with any in matters of the World ; yet pining with all the earth, b and the common execration of the World. No maruell,Fir!},Such is the qualitie & matter of their Reafon;r. Obfir. bfer.r5,to.
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