To theReader. God will curfc that mans labours that lumbers « up and down in the world all the week, and Ci then upon Saturday in the afternoon goes to « his Study, when as God knows that time were CC little enough to pray and weep in, and to get RG his heart in frame, &c.He affelled plainneffe " to- gether with power in preaching, not feekng abjlruj- ties, nor liking to hover and foar aloft in darkex- preffions , and fo fhoot his Arrows (as many Prea- chers do .) over the head, ofhis bearers. It is a wretched(tumbling block toTome, that his Sermons are f mewhat flriet, and (as they termit) legali : fome fouls can relifh ;tone but meal.mouth'd Preachers, who come withloft andfmootb,and tooth- lejfe words, byfíina verba byflinis viris But theft. times need humbling Minijieries, and blefed be God that there are any ; for where there are no Law- Sermons, there will be few Gomel- lives , andwere there more Lawpreaching in England by the men of gifts , there would be more Gofpel, walling both by tl emfelves and the People. To preach the Law, not in aforc'daffeled ;wanner, but wifely and powerful- y, together with the Gofte4, as Chrift hhnfelf was wont to do (Mat. 5. and elfewhere) is the way to carry on all three together, remit, of mifery, the appli- cation of the remedy, and the returns of thankefulneffe and duty. Nor is any doarinemore comforting than this humbling way of God, ifrightly managed. It is certain the foundations of after-forrcws and ruines to the Church, have ever been laid in the days of her profperity, and peace, and reft, when rye in- joyes all her plea things. This the watchmen of Ifrael Ihould fore,fee, and thereforewhat fhoul 1 they do but feels tóbumble and awaken, and fearch end melt wens hearts, and warn every one night and A 4 day
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