preachingConfcience no Legall P;eaching. ~37 Capl18. CH A P• XVI I I. The Applicationof the DofJrine, and ftrfl 1 bJ way of Informati()tl. I THis poi~t admits a fevehfold Applicati• T~e ~po . on, as containing mat~er, 1. For lnfor· phcauon. mation, 2. Lamentation, 3· Reproof, 4 Terror, . f. Confl,lation, 6 Examznation, 7. E;cbortation, with fome Direllioru. _ 'The Informationh~th twoparts : I. It gives I• .BY way notice of certainerrors and miflak!s, to re- of t~forh Of . qh dD . mat1on. move t em. 2. certam .~.rut 1 an utJes, to affe.rt chem. . - - 1. It meets full in the face with that too And that common and plauGble opinion, but moft firft _in re 4 d. Th · h r · movmg angerous trror, . ~t to. preac C~ntcl- miftakes. ence, and prefs Duues 10 tlus nature, 1s but · lega/J teaching, not preaching Jefm Chriji ,and the .Gofpell. . But fure we have more caufe to complain of the world for too .little of legall living, and ChrHHandoing, then the world to complain of too mu~h legall preaching. Whea men call us legall Teachers, we may with too much truth, and as much grief, ca1l them illegal!, ill~vangelicaH, and ill-Chriftian livers. Hymenem and Ale%ander are alive again, and by many Profdfors counted better Preachers then .Paul an~ Timothy. Thefe counted Good-Confdence-Doctrine to be legall
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