4:58 An Expolftion upon Chap.' the honour of the Miniftery in pomp, worldly wealth,riches,and glory, ftate- ly ornaments, and precious garments ; in which things,the talfe Prophets molt excell. See Rev. 18. Alfo they be but accidentali and fophifiicall.Ornaments, they do not appertain to the nature and ftibftance of the Miniftery, which con as in 'preachinganddo &rine,and con - verting fouls thereby to Chrift. Such as do not this, whatfoever they have or doe, they bring no dignity to the Mi- niftery, which is magnified not by titles and fhewes, but by doing the work be- longing to it. Secondly, it warneth Minifters to keep their office from con- tempt, by flying licencioufneffe, idle - neffe; còvetoulneffe, &c. by preaching painfully,and living honeftly.Thirdly, it rebukesfuch hearers as will not be re- formed by preaching,for they are a blot and blemifh to the Word andthe Mini- fiery thereof,as much as in them is,as it it were ofno might to fave.Fourthly,it .exhorts all men, even as they tender the credit and honour of Gods bleffed Mi- niflery, to fumbit unto the doEtrine taught them : by this Means they (hall magnifie the Gofpell, and caufe it to be highly efleemed of. T 1 M. What are we to learn from hence, that Paul being fent to the Gentiles, yet ldbou- red to fave the.7ewer too? S r L. That Pallors and Parents, ha- ving firft and chiefly looked to their. own charge, may lawfully endeavour the (Ovation of many others, by pub - lick and private teaching,provided it be no prejudice to them over whom we are fpecially let. T t M. But will not this example ferve to juftifie fuch as commonly have their own charge to teach others abroad ? S t L. No,it will -not; forthefe Jews Whom Paul taught were mixed with the Gentiles,fo as in teaching them he neg- le &ed not his own charge ; and his corn- million was to teach all Nations. T I M. But (tieing it it God only that can fave, how doth Paul write that he will fave forne? Si L.Godfaveth otherwife then Mí nifters do,he as efficient chief working can fe of falvation, being both author and bleffer of the mind-Ivry. Minifters fave as his voluntary inftrnments,whom he ufeth not of nced,but becaufe he wil, and to whom that is communicated which is proper to the chief agent : to teach all men to reverence the minifiry, and to fee the great necefIity ofit, I Tint. 4. i 6. Jam.5.2o. Rom. I.19. T I M. What elfe,learn we here? S I L. That in feeking to fave, our greateft care mult be for friends & kinf- men, L422.32. dff. 1tï. 24. For cha- rity is limited and ruled, it beginneth at our (elves and thofe next to us, and fo ftretcheth it felfto others both in tem- porall matters, and in fpirituall, z 7íín. 5.4,8 . DIALOGUE XII. Verf. 15. For if the calling away of them be the recoin ciling o f the world, what fhall their .recel ving be but life from the dead? Ta M O r I(E u s. // WHat cloth this 15.verfe contain? S I L. The fecond argument whereby the beleeving Gentles are de- horted from infulting or prouddifdai- -ning of the unbeleeving Jewes : it is ta- ken from the hope of the reftoringo the Jewes to the Church of God, who therefore ought not to be contemned. The firitargument was from the end of Gods.counfell, in the reje &ion of the Jewes, whereof we heard out of=verf. 1I,12. TIM. Of whatparts cloth this Text conf ff? S I L.Of two arts: The firft is a pro Parte. pofition. The fecond is a proof : the propofition or matter propounded' is this: The Jewes which be now as dead men by their unbelief, shall be revived and quickned again by grace. This pro - pofition is illuftrated and let forth by the fimilitude of the lait and generallre- furre &ion, when the dead which lie buryed in their graves,ihall arife again: even as poffible it is for God to raife the Jewe sue__
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