' · Of ilie M~inifh:rhd Fun8io11. '357· · to which you afpire.' Confider, I bcfcech you, what great. pains arc ncc-effiry to 11-J:': and qualify you for it. Ordinary callings. are not learned without a·lot?g apprcntice– fhip, and will the art of governing fouls be.– learned 1on a fudden? It is not kno,vledge_· of controvcrfy, or the gift of eloquence,.. n1uch lefs a fhong \{oice· -and bold· -con·fi- . dence, tha~ will qualify you for it. The: errors that abound an1ong us, make it nc- '-<::eifary indeed that you .fhould know ho"v: to deal with the adverfaries; for the clergy-" are many -rimes: put to r·he pafk i:h'e Jews \vere at the building the fecond · temple;, with one hand they mu(l build ~he houje of.. .God, and 'with the other they muff. hold a. ~ 7.veapon *: yet cer_t~ibly your greateHwork 1. . h" . .f . . £! l :,l..eS Wlt tn, lll pB-n YH.)f!.: VOl:lf ill:!IL~.&, -~~-- - learn-ing that wifdo~1 . ~11ich is necdfary for fouls. Begin then, I pray you, and _preach to your paffions, and try \V hat good· • ·you cap do to your friends and neighbours. 'Study that grav~ty and fer.ioufnefs, that hu... n1ility and-fdf-deraal, that pu1"ity and m·or~ tification that becon1eth thofe who may one day fl-and in fo near a relation to God, and bear fo eminent a charge in his c·hnrch. Be not too hafly and for_ward in rufhing .. into ..
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