EpiJlleof S. Paul to Titud. CHAP.2.6 voice like a tturnpet, to (heave Iudahhis (inne, and the people of God 409 their tran(greffion. Secondly,whenadmonition andexhortationwill not ferue to cut off fume , but there is rather a reioycing in it. Here Paul himfelfe will put on his authoritie, i.Cor.s.a. and 13. Put awayfrom you that wickedman. Thirdly, when the Minifterie is, or is like to be drawne into contempt, then a pecially mull it put ou power,and authoritie.This was the prat-lifeof theApoftles, whowere forced often ( partlyby the lowefimationof thePimple and ignorant,who caeca-red ofthe preach- ing of theGofpel but as foolillines; and partlyby the maliciousoppofi. pionsof the falteApo/Iles, whodepraued their miniflerie as weake and vnlearned) to be long in the challengingof their calling,power,andau- choritie: fo z.Cor.i o.z.8. &c. Vfe. r. Miniaers mutt labour wifely to diCcerne betweene perlons Miniañ, <r and aétions, as Iofeph did betweene the perfo ss and caufes ofPharaohs Molitor:. butler and baker, and Cpeake diffèrently to the tra &able and fubborne: children and feruantsmull not be dealt with alike. Chri(t fpake not to thePrieas and people alike: nor Iohn Baptii to the lewes and Scribes alike; nor Paul to the Galatians and Ephefians alike: but Gods mouth mutt feparate the precious from thevile: Compaffanmuffbehadvpon fume, lade :3, but not all , others mull with feare be pulled out of the fire ; neither may thePublican andPharifie looke for the fame fentence and judge- ment. z. Whereas mencannot endure preachers, who leave exhortati- on, to thunder out damnation; let themknowe, that if their finnes be grownebold as an harlot.; and thewordof meekneffe cannotpreuaile a_ gain (l them, winufl thpu coehe witha rodde,and not the (pick ofineek- Í nes: otherwife as Chtilt was molt meek in his life and doblrine,fo fhould his Miniflersbe alto. : I Thethirdpoint in the verle,is ehevertue commended to the pra&ife what tobatty ofyoung men,agd that is, the grace of fobriecy, which moderaceth the miede in the lulls and affeétions in generall:and is not to be refrained to that outward fobrietie, which is oppnfed to intemperance inmere and drinke:for it is taken for graunted,that intemperance mull be nips in the head,and broken in the fhel,beforç it behatched and outwardly produ- ced into the life. This appearec) , z :Tim. z. zz. where Paul in other words prefcribeth the famedudevnto Timothie , file the hill, of youth: not meaning thereby fuck vncleannes and lafciuious filthineffe where- with graceleffe youngmen werecarried away, for Timothiewas nowof fuch grauitie as befitted an Euangelih; but he would preuent in him all that violent courfe &carriageofaffétions, vnto which that hotter age is morepropenfe;not fearing that Timothiewouldbreak out into filthy vnçleannesoflufls fomuch, as leaf his youth fhould carriehim to rafh- C c 4 nes,
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