CHAP,y.YS, ACortmemtarie vponthe 534 fee cap.1.9. r.Tim,ztf. All proofes and reproofes mutt be fetened f b the Scriptures. ASatarift noFit taprooceraffin ence,baucput offall forehead and humanitie, may beginne to feare and eland in awe ofhim, which courfe feemeth to beclofely commended to Titus : So was Timothycommanded to free his youth fromcontempt,!. Tim.4.t 2. Let no mandefpife thyyouth: but how fhall he effee'} this ? the next words Chew vs,But becomeunto themwhichbeleette an example in word, inconuerfation, in lone, infpirit, infaith,inpureneire.. Hauing fpokenbefore ofteaching, exhortation,and reproofe in their feuerall places; we will onely note in this former part, what it is that the minifter is eyed veto in his teaching, exhortation,and reproofes,and in the performance ofeuerypart of hisminifferiall office : namely veto the word. There things, faithour Apofile: for this purpofe hath the Lord in great wifedome furnifhed the Scriptures tomake the man of God able both to teach, inflrufl, and improoue, fo as he need go no further to feeke for profitable things. Which teacheth fuch as will Band in Gods coun- I fell, to fetch from hence all their do1rines,all their proofcs, ali their ex - hortations, and all their reproofes ; for lo (hall they be iut+, fo (hall they be powerful) toworke a workeofedification,and fo (hall they be vnre- fillablein the confciencesofinen. Thefe things if men would tie them- felues vntc,,they (honk' encreafe men with the encreafings of God in fpirituall wifedome,watchfulnes,and the feare of God. Then (houlal we not meet with fomany pretors for tinne andhbertie to the flefh , f}rai- ning their wittesco legitimate bal}ardly broods ofopinions, which the Scriptureneuer acknowledged hers.Nor fomany who in their reproofs glad the hearts of the impenitent, and make heauy the hearts ofthole to whom the Lord hath fpokenpeace ; who lieke at the bet+ things and men;and fo as loonas euer they haue delivered a truth in thee, 'call they fhould kaue it while it is true, mifapply it in the hypothef :s; girding at godlines as toomuch ferupulofity and precifenes;accounung confcience ata hypecrite,and the feare ofGod diffembling before men, Hence are difcouered as finnefull, all reproofes of (inne by iefìing,in- terluding, and Rage reprefentations,in whichfoeles make amocks offiane, and open a publikc fchooleof all lewdneffe and iniquitie: and if any de- uill or 6nne be call out there, it is by Beizebub the Piinceof the deuils. Further, all reproofes by fatirizing, and by flanderous libels, and ferret calumniations(all which commonly wrecke themfelues rather upon the perlons then hones ofinen)are here rrprooued:which although they be indeed fharpe and biting meanes, yet hash the Lord appointed fitter and (harper arrowes to finite his enemies withal!,euen found and fuffr- cient conuiEtions out of the word, which is able to wound and daunt kings themfelues: and prefcribed themall() to be publikely drawee, and (hoc in inch graue, reuerenr,and feemelyfort, as is befitting, !.both the per-
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