a:a C td A P.Z. Epileto theTheffalonians. V 13 R.14. 195 iudgement in my rude notes on the former Epifile. How beit would haue no man, in loue of his ignorance,or ouer- Ioue ofeafe, fo farre miflaken, as to thinke he hath done the whole of that worthy, that r toylefome work.e of thenri- ni.flery, when he bath read faire feruice vnto the people. Nor be fo erronious againfl fenfe,as to thinke reading that kinde of preaching, which Scripture makes inflrument of efFeauall calling. OfGods feleling it and feparating it to this vfe, other Reafon we can giue none faue his ithro4ía, I Cor. 1. 21. Howbeit, Congruence you may obferue t COr.I4. 25. 2Tim.42.&2.15. And would you pleafe ferioufly to view, and compare Congregations wanting this meanes, with thofe to which God bath granted conflant preaching of his Truth, the greatefl Antipreacher (hall be forced to fee as great oddes, as betwixt Sodome and Sion in her beautie, betwixt igno- rance and knowledge, betwixt ciuility and fan,6.lity, be- twixt corruption and grace, betwixt the fonnes of God, and the children of73 elial, On which ground I hope I may without prefumption minde my reuerend Brethren of the Miniflery, cf what Paul with folemneü adjuration chargeth vpon Timothie, to ° preach the word to be infíant in feafon out of feaf n I the itch of the Bares bath infedled the people : chats lit- tle. 2 XWolues enter or infideate not f7iaring the f ocke.. We watch for their foules as thofe that Y 'hall giue account. 4 B loud offoules cries Lowder , then that of eAbel, which yet God threatens to 2 require of vs, in cafe of our negli- gence. 5 a Woes are many to route vs; with all comfor- table promifes many to animate and encourage: t the b Lord f all be with vs,to prote& our petfons, to bleßê our minitlery : 2 whatfoeuer our iff'ue is, yet are we to God a cTweet fauour : 3 though we labour in vaine, yet our a re- ward ù with the Lord, and our worke with our rod 4 If hleflìng added, fuch as we expel, chats t e feale to our finding: 2 Meaner of oar farre F more glorious reward. To the people I fay as Paul, g Defpife not Trophel e; O a flight eIdTim 3.1. & 1.1748. vf r. u z Tim.4.z. * 3. x As% 10.29. Y lcb.13.17. Z Ezcch.;.18. arCor,9r6. Ezech.34,z, b Mat 28,zo. ° 7 Cor.z,tp. Ifai 49.4. ` 1 Cor.g.z. rDan.e23. 2. s 1 The(,q 2o .
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