An Encouragement toTimothy. 329 Students, who were his hcnrers, andanoc- Cap.25. cafionofmuch mifchiefto the Church. And fince that I am [peaking to the Mi.. nifter, I deBre to fptak tWQ words apart tp two forts ofperfons that are now in the Mi– ni(fery. The firfi is to our younger Timothiu, who as they are to be the Succdfors of our 1 A rani· elder Paul1 when they die; fo are they their cular ~x· h dd 1• h h.I h 1. T horranon opes an e 1g ts, w 1 et ey are a tve. o toTimothJ thefe we can fay nothing but good : Watch · -. }cu in all things ; ·ftand fafl ; quit you likt, ·men ; bt flrong ; \ d~tfpife affliCi iom for the Go[– pel: Look well to the Charge of God, the Charge ofFaith, and of a good Confcience. Take heed to yourfelvcs, andyour doctrine: ..J. ell · AvfJidprophane jangling, vai1:J bablings-, oppnfi- ~tl a– lions of fcience, P ftudfJ·fcienct. Study to !hew vv ~~~ fc 1 . d d k ')'Yt.1<1fG1f your e ves men of Go , approve wor - T • men, that need not to be ailinmed: Your~~_ 1 m. 6 • work and ~harge is great, but your promi- r Per.2. fed affiftance greater, your reward and ult. crown is greatdt; I mean not frQmmen, 1 Pet.)·4· but fram the hand of the Arch-bifbop, and A"fX.I'iro rt-tnv (as he is called) in the day ofhis great vilitation. Remember that famous A- ' pophthegm of Mr.Peri{jnr which he wrote in the ti·ontif-piece of all ·his books, Mini{fer .. 'verbi e.r,hoc age: Thou art a Minifter eftheward, " . I \ mind thy buftnefTeWPll. Be 1i1re to hold fafr the form of found words, as being wel nourifhedup in the words of faith and g9od dothine,wher.in y~:m have made fo great a pt-o- · ·proficiency.Read over &over yourDire/Jory, C c 3 Pauls '
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