THE
DIGNITIE
OF
PREACHING
.
1.
THESS.
5.20
.
Despise
not
Prophecying
.
THE
verse
next
before
this
,
I
handled
not
farre
hence
,
now
well
neere
halfe
a
yeere
agoe
.
My
meaning
was
to
haue
there
also
treated
,
both
vpon
this
&
that
which
followeth
,
if
there
had
been
opportunitie
.
But
now
,
this
Lecture
being
well
begun
,
(
and
I
pray
God
it
may
so
long
continue
)
and
my selfe
being
called
to
beare
a
part
therein
,
I
thought
with
my selfe
,
I
could
not
chuse
a
more
fit
text
,
wherwith
,
to
set
on
with
this
worke
,
it
being
so
direct
to
procure
honor
to
this
preaching
businesse
,
which
the
gentlemen
of
these
parts
(
for
their
own
good
and
the
Townes
)
haue
seemed
so
desirous
of
,
and
vpon
which
they
professe
to
haue
dependance
.
I
delight
not
to
be
long
in
preambles
,
I
am
come
hither
to
discharge
the
dutie
of
a
Preacher
,
not
of
an
Orator
.
Thus
then
,
it
was
Pauls
aduice
in
the
precedent
verse
,
The
coherence
of
the
text
.
to
euery
one
sensible
in
himselfe
of
the
graces
of
Gods
spirit
;
such
as
doe
accompanie
saluation
,
to
beware
of
quenching
them
,
and
so
accordingly
to
endeuour
to
keepe
life
in
them
;
yea
and
to
adde
more
heate
vnto
them
,
by
all
good
meanes
.
Now
a
speciall
meanes
both
to
continue
and
to
augment
this
sacred
fire
,
is
here
prescribed
,
and
it
is
this
,
not
to
despise
prophecying
:
so
haue
you
of
a
short
text
the
connexion
in
short
.
I
cannot
be
profitable
to
you
in
discoursing
vpon
these
words
,
The
opening
of
the
words
.
vnlesse
I
make
you
to
know
what
that
is
which
is
here
termed
Prophecying
,
and
what
not
to
despise
Prophecying
.
In
the
strictest
taking
of
the
word
,
to
Prophecie
,
is
to
foretell
some
future
thing
,
and
so
accordingly
they
were
anciently
termed
Prophets
,
to
whom
God
reuealed
his
special
purposes
touching
the
after
times
.
But
now
in
the
new
Testament
we
finde
this
Prophecying
,
not
so
much
to
signifie
a
reuealing
before
hand
,
by
diuine
inspirement
,
what
touching
States
and
Common-wealths
,
and
particular
persons
shall
ensue
,
as
an
expounding
the
Scriptures
in
such
sort
as
might
best
aduance
the
common
benefit
.
Me
thinkes
I
finde
in
Paul
an
exact
definition
of
Prophecying
;
It
is
a
speaking
to
men
,
to
edifying
,
to
exhortation
,
to
comfort
[
](A03279-e10560-b)a
a
1.
Cor.
14.3
.
.
It
is
euen
the
very
same
which
we
terme
,
Preaching
.
I
could
countenance
this
interpretation
,
by
the
names
of
men
,
which
deserue
respect
,
but
Pauls
description
is
warrant
enough
:
whatsoeuer
any
say
,
discouering
their
opinion
touching
this
words
meaning
here
,
they
ground
vpon
the
place
of
Paul
which
I
haue
named
.
Plowing
therefore
with
the
same
Heifer
,
we
may
soone
attain
to
the
depth
of
that
which
may
be
thought
the
Riddle
of
this
place
.
Now
not
to
despise
,
here
is
to
honor
:
for
in
this
case
there
can
be
no
third
.
He
who
doth
not
despise
Prophecying
,
doth
honor
it
,
and
he
who
doth
not
honor
it
,
doth
despise
it
.
So
that
to
come
as
soone
as
I
can
to
the
principall
matter
of
this
verse
,
you
may
please
to
entertaine
it
as
it
is
presented
you
in
this
forme
:
The
generall
doctrine
.
That
the
exercise
of
preaching
ought
to
receiue
from
vs
all
esteeme
.
Wouldest
thou
that
the
spirit
of
God
,
namely
,
the
sauing
graces
thereof
,
might
bee
conueied
into
thee
and
preserued
in
thee
?
loe
,
God
hath
giuen
gifts
vnto
men
,
and
hath
furnished
them
with
skill
of
right
diuiding
his
holy
and
sacred
word
,
Pastors
and
Teachers
for
the
gathering
together
of
his
Saints
,
and
for
the
comfortable
discouerie
of
the
secret
of
the
Gospell
:
see
thou
hearken
vnto
these
,
and
let
their
labour
in
the
word
,
be
sweete
and
precious
to
thy
soule
.
This
is
the
effect
of
Pauls
counsell
here
,
which
now
that
wee
haue
found
out
,
to
the
end
it
may
bee
more
vsefull
,
I
am
now
a
little
further
to
enlarge
.
My
proofe
of
this
doctrine
shall
be
made
good
by
the
declaring
of
two
things
.
1.
That
it
is
the
expresse
will
and
ordinance
of
God
,
that
there
should
be
in
his
Church
a
certaine
calling
of
men
,
set
apart
to
this
worke
and
seruice
,
of
making
the
holy
Scriptures
vsefull
to
the
people
by
the
act
of
preaching
.
2.
That
this
act
of
preaching
is
so
ordained
by
God
,
that
wee
haue
no
assurance
in
the
world
to
attaine
saluation
but
by
it
.
These
two
poynts
well
cleered
,
will
take
away
all
doubt
touching
this
doctines
truth
.
For
if
preaching
be
Gods
ordinance
,
shall
it
not
be
honoured
?
and
if
we
haue
without
it
no
hope
of
being
saued
,
shall
it
not
deserue
esteeme
?
If
then
I
shall
be
able
to
double
these
two
two
poynts
,
I
shall
hope
to
procure
an
easie
passage
for
the
maine
doctrine
into
the
heart
and
soule
of
euery
one
that
heares
me
.
So
that
you
wil
not
crie
when
I
haue
done
,
as
they
did
against
Paul
,
Away
with
such
a
fellow
from
the
earth
[
](A03279-e10700-b)b
b
Act.
22.22
.
,
but
rather
breake
out
into
some
such
note
,
as
theirs
that
followed
Christ
,
Lord
euermore
giue
vs
this
preaching
[
](A03279-e10720-b)c
c
Ioh.
6.34
.
.
My
first
taske
must
be
this
,
to
make
it
to
appeare
,
that
God
neuer
purposed
to
leaue
his
holy
word
to
be
no
more
but
read
,
either
priuatly
in
mens
houses
,
or
publikely
in
our
Churches
;
but
appointed
there
should
be
men
ordained
,
to
expound
the
same
by
voyce
,
and
applie
it
to
the
occasions
and
necessities
of
the
people
for
their
edifying
.
For
this
is
the
soule
of
prophecying
,
and
the
very
life
of
preaching
.
It
openeth
the
Scripture
,
to
shew
what
it
meaneth
,
it
fits
it
to
the
particular
vses
and
cases
of
the
hearers
.
Now
that
there
hath
been
from
the
beginning
a
Calling
of
men
to
deale
betwixt
God
and
man
in
the
things
of
God
,
the
course
of
the
holy
storie
makes
it
plaine
.
In
the
daies
before
the
flood
(
besides
that
the
first
borne
of
euery
familie
was
an
officer
of
this
kinde
)
we
reade
particularly
of
Enoch
and
of
Noah
;
the
one
a
Prophet
by
the
testimonie
of
S.
Iude
[
](A03279-e10760-b)d
d
Iude
vers.
14.
,
the
other
a
Preacher
of
righteousnes
by
the
witnes
of
S.
Peter
[
](A03279-e10780-b)e
e
2.
Pet.
2.5
.
.
In
the
following
times
,
notwithstanding
the
smalnes
of
Gods
Church
for
diuers
yeeres
,
yet
that
which
is
said
of
Melchizedech
,
that
he
was
a
Priest
of
the
most
high
God
[
](A03279-e10810-b)f
f
Gen.
14.18
.
,
is
an
argument
,
of
some
such
ranke
and
condition
of
men
as
I
now
speake
of
.
As
the
people
of
God
multiplied
and
began
to
put
on
the
shape
of
a
Body
politique
,
so
this
course
became
more
euident
and
more
ordinary
.
Then
the
Tribe
of
Leui
was
deputed
to
a
speciall
attendance
vpon
this
function
[
](A03279-e10830-b)g
g
Deut.
33.10
.
,
and
from
thence
there
was
a
continuall
succession
of
men
sitting
in
Moses
chaire
vntill
our
Sauiours
time
.
Christ
when
hee
came
did
not
ouerthrow
this
course
,
but
establish
it
.
He
appoynted
Apostles
first
[
](A03279-e10850-b)h
h
Luke
6.13
.
,
they
being
by
him
instructed
in
the
things
which
pertaine
to
the
kingdome
of
God
[
](A03279-e10860-b)i
i
Act.
1.3
.
,
and
precise
to
ordaine
nothing
but
that
which
themselues
had
receiued
[
](A03279-e10870-b)k
k
1.
Cor.
11.23
.
,
as
they
were
diligent
in
respect
of
their
personall
industrie
,
so
they
appoynted
such
as
themselues
(
in
regard
of
the
substance
of
their
office
)
and
gaue
order
(
for
the
perpetuating
of
this
course
)
to
make
choyce
of
faithfull
men
still
to
be
employed
in
this
seruice
[
](A03279-e10890-b)m
m
2.
Tim.
2.2
.
:
and
Paul
saith
expresly
that
Christ
ascended
on
high
to
giue
gifts
vnto
men
,
euen
that
there
might
be
such
for
the
gathering
together
of
the
Saints
to
the
end
of
the
world
[
](A03279-e10930-b)n
n
Eph.
4.11
.
&c.
.
Now
,
as
such
a
Calling
was
of
old
,
and
must
continue
till
time
shall
be
no
more
,
so
the
speciall
intendment
was
to
teach
.
See
for
proofe
in
the
old
Testament
,
Deut.
33.10
.
2.
Chro.
15.3
.
and
in
the
new
,
Mat.
28.19
.
2.
Tim.
2.2
.
Therefore
(
as
we
gather
by
our
Sauiours
speech
to
Nicodemus
)
they
of
this
profession
were
called
Masters
in
Israel
[
](A03279-e10960-b)o
o
Ioh.
3
10.
,
and
after
in
the
same
sort
Teachers
[
](A03279-e10980-b)p
p
Eph.
4.11
.
.
The
matter
of
their
teaching
was
in
the
old
Testament
termed
the
Iudgement
and
Law
of
God
[
](A03279-e11000-b)q
q
Deut.
33.10
.
,
and
in
the
new
it
is
said
to
be
whatsoeuer
Christ
hath
commanded
[
](A03279-e11020-b)r
r
Matth.
28.20
.
,
and
more
briefly
the
Word
[
](A03279-e11040-b)s
s
2.
Tim.
4.2
.
.
The
manner
of
their
teaching
in
the
old
Testament
,
is
reported
to
be
reading
in
the
booke
of
the
Law
,
distinctly
giuing
the
sense
,
and
causing
the
people
to
vnderstand
the
reading
[
](A03279-e11060-b)t
t
Neh.
8.8
.
:
in
the
new
,
a
publishing
of
the
secret
of
the
Gospell
[
](A03279-e11080-b)u
u
Ephes.
6.19
.
;
a
dealing
vnto
the
people
the
Gospell
of
God
[
](A03279-e11100-b)x
x
1.
Thes.
2.8
.
.
Now
in
teaching
it
is
manifest
,
that
there
is
a
further
matter
then
the
publishing
to
the
people
,
by
reading
from
out
of
the
booke
,
the
words
and
tenour
of
the
Scripture
.
Euery
ordinary
man
will
quickly
conceiue
so
much
out
of
the
nature
of
the
word
;
Teach
:
Doth
a
Schoolmaster
teach
his
scholler
in
reading
to
him
his
Rule
,
vnlesse
he
doe
also
cause
him
to
vnderstand
it
,
and
shew
him
how
he
may
practise
that
which
is
the
purpose
of
it
?
Doth
a
man
of
occupation
teach
his
apprentise
his
trade
,
by
propounding
certaine
generall
precepts
,
if
hee
doe
not
discouer
to
him
that
which
wee
terme
the
Mysterie
of
his
profession
in
particulars
?
Thus
farre
we
are
come
in
the
proofe
of
this
first
branch
.
It
is
the
ordinance
of
God
,
that
there
should
be
a
Calling
of
men
,
to
deale
betwixt
him
and
man
,
and
that
euery
one
called
to
this
calling
should
be
apt
to
teach
[
](A03279-e11130-b)y
y
1.
Tim.
3.2
.
.
He
that
wants
this
knowledge
is
no
Priest
for
me
,
said
the
Lord
of
old
[
](A03279-e11150-b)z
z
Hos.
4.6
.
.
Agreeing
hereto
is
the
wholesome
order
of
our
English
Church
,
in
which
no
man
is
admitted
Presbyter
,
See
the
booke
of
ordination
of
Bishops
,
Priests
and
Deacons
.
but
he
is
first
exhorted
by
the
Bishop
,
to
consider
that
his
office
is
of
great
excellencie
,
and
of
great
difficultie
,
such
as
he
cannot
by
any
other
meanes
compasse
,
but
with
Doctrine
and
exhortation
taken
out
of
the
Scripture
:
and
then
,
after
he
is
asked
,
whether
hee
is
determined
to
instruct
the
people
committed
to
his
charge
with
the
Scriptures
;
in
the
end
(
a
Bible
being
deliuered
into
his
hand
)
he
is
willed
to
take
authoritie
to
preach
the
word
of
God
.
And
by
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
it
is
manifest
that
none
ought
to
administer
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
to
the
people
,
but
he
who
may
boldly
say
to
the
people
,
If
there
be
any
of
you
which
cannot
quiet
his
conscience
,
See
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
in
one
of
the
Exhortations
to
be
somtimes
vsed
at
the
discretion
of
the
Minister
.
but
requireth
further
counsell
or
comfort
,
let
him
come
to
me
,
or
some
other
discreete
and
learned
Minister
of
Gods
word
,
and
open
his
griefe
that
he
may
receiue
such
ghostly
counsell
,
aduice
and
comfort
,
as
his
conscience
may
be
relieued
.
It
is
meant
that
hee
should
haue
somewhat
in
him
,
who
must
openly
in
the
congregation
make
such
an
offer
.
Our
learned
men
doe
in
their
writings
deride
that
of
the
Popish
Decretals
,
Decret.
p.
1.
dist.
28.
c.
5.
Homilias
per
Circuitum
anni
Dominicis
diebus
&
festiuitatibus
aptas
.
which
require
little
more
of
a
Priest
then
to
fetch
out
according
to
the
rule
of
his
Rubricke
,
the
appointed
seruice
for
the
day
.
I
must
yet
adioyne
one
thing
more
before
I
quit
this
branch
,
namely
,
that
this
is
also
Gods
ordinance
,
that
of
this
sort
there
should
bee
some
in
euery
Towne
,
and
that
the
same
should
performe
this
Teaching-seruice
euery
Sabbath
.
The
ordinance
for
euery
towne
may
bee
probably
collected
out
of
the
ancient
scattering
of
the
tribe
of
Leui
through
all
the
land
,
out
of
that
which
is
said
,
that
they
(
viz.
the
Leuits
)
taught
all
Israel
[
](A03279-e11290-b)b
b
2.
Chro.
35.3
.
;
and
by
that
which
is
reported
,
that
when
Christ
was
teaching
,
there
sate
by
,
Doctors
of
the
Law
,
which
were
come
out
of
euery
towne
of
Galile
and
Iudea
,
&c.
[
](A03279-e11310-b)c
c
Luke
5.17
.
:
More
directly
by
that
,
that
Moses
was
preached
in
euery
citie
[
](A03279-e11330-b)d
d
Act.
15.21
.
;
and
the
Apostles
ordained
Elders
in
euery
Church
[
](A03279-e11350-b)e
e
Act.
14.23
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
:
according
whereunto
was
Pauls
Iniunction
to
Titus
,
to
constitute
such
in
each
citie
[
](A03279-e11390-b)f
f
Tit.
1.5
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
.
Hereupon
came
the
terme
of
charges
in
the
old
Testament
[
](A03279-e11410-b)g
g
2.
Chro.
35.3
.
,
and
of
flocks
in
the
new
[
](A03279-e11420-b)h
h
1.
Pet.
5.2
.
.
Then
the
ordinance
for
euery
Sabbath
is
iustly
gatherable
out
of
the
former
saying
,
Moses
was
preached
in
the
Sinagogues
euery
Sabbath
day
[
](A03279-e11450-b)i
i
Act.
15.21
.
;
and
it
may
be
without
violence
concluded
out
of
that
commandement
of
the
Apostle
to
preach
in
season
[
](A03279-e11470-b)k
k
2.
Tim.
4
2.
:
what
better
season
,
then
when
the
people
rest
from
all
other
seruices
,
and
meet
together
in
one
place
for
holy
duties
?
This
course
was
held
in
the
daies
next
following
the
Apostles
.
It
is
the
report
of
Iustin
Martyr
that
in
his
time
,
Iust.
Martyr
Apol.
2.
Tertul.
Ap.
c.
3.
Reading
and
opening
the
word
lasted
an
houre
long
euery
Sabbath
:
and
Tertullian
,
that
there
was
not
a
meeting
of
the
Christians
,
wherin
their
soules
were
not
fed
with
holy
Sermons
before
they
departed
.
It
was
a
decree
of
the
Councell
of
Mentz
,
vnder
Charles
the
great
,
that
there
should
be
a
course
taken
,
that
there
should
not
bee
one
wanting
,
who
should
vpon
the
Lords
daies
preach
the
word
of
God
,
Iuxta
quod
vulgus
intelligere
possit
.
Babing
.
on
the
Lords
Prayer
.
to
the
vnderstanding
of
the
people
:
With
this
consents
that
opinion
of
Reuerend
Bishop
Babington
,
of
respectiue
memorie
,
namely
,
that
a
Minister
can
no
more
enter
the
Church
vpon
a
Sabbath
day
without
preaching
,
and
not
be
guiltie
of
a
damnable
sinne
,
then
Aaron
could
goe
into
the
congregation
without
death
,
in
case
,
that
at
his
entrance
in
he
did
not
sound
his
bels
.
And
againe
,
Idem
vpon
the
Command
.
he
sinneth
the
sinne
of
a
dumbe
dogge
,
who
passeth
ouer
the
Sabbath
day
without
preaching
,
and
therein
maketh
the
people
guiltie
of
the
prophanation
of
Gods
holy
day
.
Vpon
this
ground
the
Canons
of
our
Church
haue
ordained
that
euery
beneficed
man
(
allowed
a
Preacher
)
shall
preach
one
Sermon
euery
Sunday
in
the
yeere
:
and
againe
,
Can.
45.
that
euery
Incumbent
shall
euery
Sunday
before
Euening
Prayer
examine
and
instruct
the
youth
and
ignorant
persons
of
the
parish
in
the
tenne
Commandements
,
Can.
59.
the
Articles
of
the
beleefe
,
and
the
Lords
Prayer
.
These
things
I
note
to
preuent
a
conceit
which
some
may
haue
,
that
I
come
hither
to
open
a
packe
of
Puritanicall
ware
,
and
to
vent
some
priuate
humorous
opinions
;
you
may
see
that
that
which
I
auouch
touching
the
ordinance
of
God
in
this
poynt
,
is
the
iudgement
of
our
Church
.
And
thus
haue
I
finished
the
first
part
of
my
proofe
,
that
preaching
is
Gods
ordinance
.
It
is
his
will
that
the
ability
for
it
should
be
in
euery
Minister
,
and
the
execution
of
it
in
euery
Congregation
,
euery
Sabbath
.
The
next
part
of
my
proofe
is
,
that
without
dependance
vpon
preaching
we
haue
no
assurance
of
saluation
.
To
make
this
manifest
,
I
demaund
,
whether
we
beleeue
the
Scripture
?
that
without
faith
it
is
impossible
to
please
God
[
](A03279-e11640-b)l
l
Heb.
11.6
.
:
and
whether
any
other
meanes
be
sanctified
by
God
to
beget
Faith
,
besides
the
hearing
of
a
Preacher
?
that
,
I
am
sure
,
is
ordained
to
that
end
[
](A03279-e11660-b)m
m
Rom.
10.14.17
.
:
as
for
any
other
mainly
deputed
thereto
(
without
this
)
I
am
sure
there
is
no
in●●
euidence
in
all
Gods
book
.
The
Lord
hauing
Saints
to
gather
and
to
translate
out
of
the
kingdome
of
darknesse
,
hath
appointed
and
gifted
Pastors
and
Teachers
to
that
end
[
](A03279-e11670-b)n
n
Eph.
4.11
.
:
so
much
is
apparant
.
And
whereas
the
promise
of
saluation
is
limited
only
to
so
many
as
God
shall
call
[
](A03279-e11690-b)o
o
Act.
2.39
.
,
(
whereupon
they
which
shall
be
saued
are
termed
a
called
companie
[
](A03279-e11710-b)p
p
Iude
vers.
1.
,
)
faine
would
I
know
whereto
calling
hath
reference
but
to
a
voyce
?
What
voyce
shall
wee
thinke
it
to
be
,
but
that
which
soundeth
in
the
publike
Ministerie
?
Christs
voyce
wee
will
all
yeeld
it
to
be
,
and
so
we
may
well
,
(
for
his
sheepe
heare
his
voyce
[
](A03279-e11730-b)q
q
Ioh.
10.27
.
:
)
and
where
is
Christs
voyce
now
,
but
in
those
who
by
their
calling
are
in
Christs
stead
[
](A03279-e11750-b)r
r
2.
Cor.
5.20
.
?
and
of
whom
hee
hath
said
plainly
,
He
that
heareth
you
heareth
me
[
](A03279-e11770-b)s
s
Luke
10.16
.
.
As
we
can
haue
no
certaintie
of
our
Election
,
vnlesse
wee
giue
diligence
to
make
our
calling
sure
[
](A03279-e11800-b)t
t
2.
Pet.
1.10
.
:
so
what
warrant
hath
any
man
to
thinke
hee
is
called
,
but
by
that
meanes
which
God
ordained
to
call
the
Gentiles
?
and
what
meanes
finde
we
that
to
be
,
other
then
this
?
Goe
teach
[
](A03279-e11820-b)u
u
Matth.
28.19
.
,
Preach
the
Gospell
to
euery
creature
[
](A03279-e11840-b)x
x
Mar.
16.15
.
.
What
can
be
plainer
then
this
?
God
hath
reconciled
vs
vnto
himselfe
by
Christ
,
and
hath
giuen
vnto
men
a
ministrie
of
Reconciliation
[
](A03279-e11860-b)y
y
2.
Cor.
5.18
.
.
We
will
soone
yeeld
that
by
this
place
it
is
proued
that
there
is
no
comming
vnto
God
the
Father
,
but
by
Christ
:
shall
it
not
be
as
strongly
proued
thence
,
that
there
is
no
ordinary
accesse
to
Christ
,
but
by
the
ministrie
?
What
moued
our
Sauiour
to
pitie
the
multitude
being
without
a
shepheard
,
(
a
laborer
in
the
Lords
haruest
[
](A03279-e11880-b)z
z
Matth.
9.36
.
)
was
it
not
because
they
were
in
apparant
hazard
of
saluation
,
being
so
destitute
?
Why
is
the
land
of
Zebulim
and
Nepthalim
said
to
sit
in
Darknes
,
and
in
the
Region
of
the
shadow
of
death
,
vntill
the
light
of
preaching
shone
among
them
[
](A03279-e11910-b)a
a
Mat.
4.15.16
.
,
but
because
the
inhabitants
were
in
the
high
way
to
hell
,
without
ministeriall
instruction
?
Note
that
speech
:
Israel
,
a
long
time
,
without
God
,
and
without
a
Priest
to
teach
[
](A03279-e11930-b)b
b
2.
Chro.
15.3
.
.
No
Priest
to
teach
,
no
interest
in
God
.
There
is
no
Logick
in
the
world
to
conclude
otherwise
.
I
am
faine
to
stint
my selfe
in
that
which
I
could
say
in
this
argument
.
I
heare
what
men
say
,
when
they
be
not
able
to
elude
the
euidence
of
these
testimonies
.
Obiect
.
They
obiect
and
crie
out
,
Oh
Crueltie
,
oh
Barbarisme
!
now
you
doe
damne
all
that
haue
no
preaching
.
Answer
.
I
speake
al
this
while
of
a
way
and
course
to
which
we
are
tied
,
and
whereto
wee
must
trust
,
and
out
of
which
wee
may
not
venture
.
I
take
not
on
me
to
preiudice
the
power
or
mercie
of
God
,
I
will
not
for
a
world
say
in
a
pulpit
,
that
there
are
none
in
heauen
,
which
neuer
heard
a
Sermon
;
I
am
not
ignorant
of
Gods
ablenes
to
saue
as
he
pleaseth
,
I
know
God
can
giue
bread
from
heauen
[
](A03279-e11990-b)c
c
Exod.
6.
;
he
can
make
one
sute
of
clothes
,
or
one
paire
of
shooes
to
serue
a
mans
turne
fortie
yeeres
[
](A03279-e12000-b)d
d
Deut.
29.5
.
;
he
can
cause
the
earth
to
yeeld
corne
without
sowing
[
](A03279-e12010-b)e
e
Isai.
37.30
.
;
he
can
make
one
pitcher
of
oyle
to
pay
a
great
deale
of
debt
[
](A03279-e12020-b)f
f
2.
King
.
4.2
.
.
But
what
of
this
?
no
warrant
hence
for
me
to
say
,
Husbandrie
is
not
the
ordinarie
meanes
of
hauing
Corne
;
sowing
&
mending
the
ordinarie
meanes
to
preserue
apparell
;
prouidence
and
industrie
,
and
endeuour
to
get
money
,
the
ordinarie
meanes
to
pay
debts
.
Because
the
Israelites
were
fed
with
Mannah
,
may
I
lie
vnder
a
hedge
in
the
Sunne
looking
till
Mannah
drop
into
my
mouth
?
or
because
Corne
once
grew
without
sowing
,
goe
fell
away
my
Plough
:
and
like
Salomons
sluggard
[
](A03279-e12040-b)g
g
Prou.
26.15
.
,
sheathe
vp
my
hands
into
my
bosome
,
and
renounce
husbandrie
:
or
because
of
that
of
the
Prophets
widow
,
discharging
debt
by
a
pitcher
of
oyle
;
purposely
runne
my selfe
into
debt
,
many
pounds
,
resoluing
to
leaue
to
my
Executor
a
Iarue
of
oyle
to
pay
all
;
we
would
laugh
at
such
inferences
,
and
think
a
man
halfe
mad
,
who
should
make
such
conclusions
.
And
yet
I
know
they
are
better
a
great
deale
then
this
;
that
because
wee
doe
not
say
they
are
all
damned
which
haue
no
preaching
,
therefore
Preaching
is
not
the
ordained
meanes
to
seeke
saluation
by
,
I
say
these
conclusions
are
better
,
because
wee
haue
euidence
of
some
,
sustained
in
outward
things
by
such
vnusuall
meanes
,
but
there
is
no
certaintie
of
any
particular
mans
saluation
without
ministeriall
Teaching
.
As
therefore
notwithstanding
Gods
dealing
with
the
Israelites
,
with
Hezechiah
,
with
the
widow
,
I
may
boldly
say
,
that
he
who
trusts
to
be
fed
from
heauen
,
shall
be
sterued
;
and
he
who
supposeth
to
pay
his
debts
with
a
pitcher
of
oyle
,
shall
rot
in
prison
:
So
he
who
thinkes
to
be
saued
without
preaching
,
shall
be
damned
.
We
must
looke
to
what
God
bids
vs
doe
,
and
not
to
what
he
in
his
absolute
power
can
do
.
Gods
extraordinarie
working
is
no
impeachment
at
all
to
the
truth
of
an
ordinarie
Rule
.
Obiect
.
There
be
some
which
haue
gotten
that
by
the
end
,
which
Augustine
reports
touching
himselfe
,
how
that
hee
heard
a
voyce
saying
to
him
,
Confes
.
lib.
8.
c.
12.
Take
vp
and
reade
,
take
vp
and
reade
.
And
so
taking
the
new
Testament
,
he
fell
suddenly
at
the
first
opening
of
the
booke
vpon
that
place
:
Not
in
gluttonie
and
drunkennes
,
&c.
[
](A03279-e12140-b)h
h
Rom.
13.
.
and
hereby
it
is
supposed
Augustine
was
conuerted
:
whereupon
they
would
conclude
a
possibilitie
of
turning
a
man
from
the
power
of
Satan
vnto
God
without
preaching
.
Answer
.
Hereupon
I
answere
,
that
who
so
shall
say
,
that
Augustine
was
not
conuerted
vntill
he
heard
that
voyce
,
shall
deliuer
an
vntruth
.
For
it
is
plaine
that
Augustine
had
before
that
time
been
in
spirituall
affliction
,
greatly
exercised
with
a
combat
betwixt
the
flesh
and
the
spirit
,
as
appeareth
plainly
in
the
chapter
going
next
before
this
,
whereas
he
reports
the
matter
of
the
Voice
:
And
when
this
Voyce
came
,
he
was
on
his
face
weeping
and
at
prayer
,
earnestly
confessing
his
sinnes
,
and
desiring
to
bee
deliuered
from
them
.
This
Voyce
is
rather
to
be
reputed
a
confirmation
and
perfiting
of
his
conuersion
,
then
the
proper
instrument
of
working
it
.
If
wee
would
know
whereby
in
deede
he
was
conuerted
,
let
himselfe
be
heard
,
whose
report
this
is
,
Confes
.
lib.
5.
cap.
13.14
.
That
being
a
Rhetorician
,
he
came
to
the
citie
wherein
Ambrose
was
Bishop
,
desiring
there
to
professe
Rhetoricke
:
while
hee
was
there
hee
would
needs
goe
heare
Ambrose
preach
,
Non
vt
doctorem
veri
.
Not
as
a
Teacher
of
the
Truth
,
(
so
are
his
own
words
)
for
hee
thought
there
was
no
such
to
bee
found
among
the
professors
of
the
Christian
faith
)
but
because
hee
had
vnto
him
shewed
kindnesse
.
Now
marke
what
hee
speakes
,
directing
his
speech
to
God
:
Ad
eum
per
te
ducebar
nescius
,
vt
ad
te
per
eum
sciens
ducerer
.
Omni
die
Dominico
.
Sensim
&
nescius
.
To
him
I
was
by
thee
led
vnawares
,
that
by
him
I
might
through
knowledge
be
led
to
thee
:
and
so
he
goeth
on
to
shew
how
by
hearing
him
,
whom
(
as
hee
reports
other-where
)
he
heard
preaching
euery
Lords
day
,
he
was
brought
by
little
and
little
ere
he
was
aware
,
neerer
and
neerer
to
the
embracing
of
the
truth
.
An
excellent
example
for
the
confirmation
of
this
point
,
that
preaching
is
the
meanes
of
a
mans
conuersion
.
And
yet
I
adde
,
that
in
case
it
were
true
,
that
the
reading
of
that
place
had
been
the
direct
meanes
of
his
Turning
,
yet
it
were
nothing
to
the
preiudice
of
that
which
I
now
teach
,
for
I
would
say
(
and
well
I
might
)
it
was
extraordinarie
,
and
such
whereof
we
can
make
no
Rule
:
and
so
indeed
whensoeuer
any
man
is
brought
to
haue
sauing
grace
&
true
faith
otherwise
then
by
preaching
,
it
is
a
course
out
of
course
,
such
wherein
God
will
shew
his
power
and
mercie
,
and
the
freedome
of
his
proceedings
;
not
such
wherupon
he
will
haue
vs
simply
and
generally
to
relie
.
I
returne
then
to
my
poynt
,
which
is
this
:
We
haue
no
warrant
to
expect
saluation
any
other
way
,
then
by
dependance
vpon
preaching
;
neither
may
we
(
to
speake
of
an
ordinary
course
)
perswade
our selues
wee
are
in
the
way
of
saluation
,
vnlesse
wee
be
sensible
of
our
being
set
into
it
by
this
meanes
.
God
doth
diuers
things
(
as
it
it
were
)
by
way
of
preparing
men
to
grace
:
such
are
afflictions
,
crosses
,
inward
affrightments
;
but
when
all
is
done
,
and
spoken
that
can
be
,
to
this
wee
must
come
at
last
,
that
the
maine
worke
(
ordinarily
)
either
by
preaching
it
is
wrought
,
or
not
at
all
.
What
an
absurd
thing
were
it
to
acknowledge
preaching
to
be
Gods
ordinance
,
and
yet
to
denie
it
to
be
simply
necessarie
to
saluation
,
and
to
mince
it
ouer
with
(
I
know
not
what
)
faire
termes
,
that
it
is
good
if
it
may
bee
had
,
and
profitable
for
those
who
haue
no
other
helpes
,
and
the
like
?
Why
?
what
make
we
of
Gods
ordinances
?
doe
we
account
them
only
matters
of
conueniencie
,
and
not
of
necessitie
?
For
my
part
I
know
no
more
scripture
for
faith
without
preaching
,
then
for
saluation
without
faith
;
I
am
sure
the
same
spirit
of
God
which
hath
said
,
Beleeue
that
thou
maist
be
saued
,
hath
also
said
,
Heare
that
thou
maist
beleeue
:
you
would
al
crie
out
vpon
me
(
and
you
well
might
)
if
I
should
say
,
a
man
may
be
saued
without
praying
;
&
yet
men
are
readie
to
account
it
halfe
an
heresie
,
to
auouch
that
a
man
cannot
be
saued
without
preaching
:
yet
S.
Paul
linkes
these
together
vpon
one
string
,
Saluation
,
Prayer
,
Beleeuing
,
Hearing
,
Preaching
,
Sending
[
](A03279-e12330-b)i
i
Rom.
10.13.14
.
.
Men
cannot
be
saued
without
praying
to
him
that
can
saue
:
They
cannot
pray
to
him
without
beleeuing
on
him
;
they
cannot
beleeue
on
him
without
Preaching
;
they
cannot
preach
without
Sending
:
and
whom
did
God
euer
send
,
who
was
not
able
to
diuide
the
word
for
the
peoples
edifying
?
The
things
which
God
hath
ioyned
together
let
not
man
separate
[
](A03279-e12380-b)k
k
Matth.
19.6
.
:
we
will
grant
the
beginning
,
(
no
saluation
without
prayer
,
no
praying
without
faith
)
but
we
will
distinguish
vpon
the
latter
,
(
no
beleeuing
but
by
waiting
on
a
Preacher
which
is
sent
)
.
Thus
(
I
hope
)
albeit
I
haue
not
said
so
much
as
might
be
said
in
such
an
ample
subiect
,
yet
I
haue
said
enough
to
confirme
the
two
things
which
I
vndertook
:
namely
,
first
,
that
preaching
(
vnderstanding
thereby
,
as
before
,
a
speaking
to
men
to
exhortation
,
edifying
and
comfort
)
is
Gods
ordinance
:
Secondly
,
that
hee
hath
not
reuealed
or
warranted
vnto
vs
any
other
way
of
being
saued
;
other
helpes
with
this
:
all
fruitlesse
and
in
vaine
with
the
neglect
of
this
.
These
two
things
being
true
,
shall
not
the
maine
doctrine
be
true
,
that
the
preaching
of
the
word
by
men
deputed
of
God
to
that
seruice
,
doth
deserue
esteeme
?
Indeed
as
the
whole
worship
of
God
deserues
honor
,
so
this
seruice
especially
,
as
being
the
chiefe
of
all
the
rest
.
It
is
more
excellent
then
the
administration
of
the
Sacraments
:
Paul
was
sent
to
preach
,
not
to
baptize
[
](A03279-e12430-b)l
l
1.
Cor.
1.17
.
,
that
is
,
to
preach
was
his
maine
errand
;
for
baptize
some
he
did
,
which
he
might
not
haue
done
if
he
had
not
bin
sent
.
It
is
more
noble
then
gouerning
and
the
administration
of
discipline
,
Apol
pag.
3.
s
.
300.
because
(
as
saith
the
Reuerend
Bilson
)
God
gathereth
his
Church
by
the
mouthes
of
Preachers
,
not
by
the
summons
of
Consistories
:
and
Paul
requiring
honour
to
bee
shewed
to
Elders
ruling
well
,
willeth
it
to
bee
shewed
especially
to
those
that
labour
in
the
word
and
doctrine
[
](A03279-e12490-b)m
m
1.
Tim.
5.17
.
,
as
the
persons
employed
in
the
better
businesse
.
It
excelleth
reading
as
much
as
the
Apothecaries
brusing
and
breaking
the
perfume
doth
the
presenting
it
in
lumpe
;
the
householders
cutting
the
bread
to
the
family
,
the
setting
it
down
in
the
whole
loafe
;
the
stirring
vp
of
the
fire
,
and
the
blowing
it
with
the
bellowes
,
the
letting
it
lie
couered
in
the
ashes
:
all
which
are
the
similitudes
to
this
end
vsed
by
Reuerend
B.
Babington
in
his
exposition
of
that
petition
of
the
Lords
Prayer
(
Thy
kingdome
come
)
.
It
is
more
of
worth
then
prayer
:
for
what
but
preaching
shall
direct
to
pray
?
and
whether
in
reason
shall
be
thought
more
excellent
,
our
speaking
to
God
,
(
which
is
prayer
)
or
Gods
speaking
to
vs
(
which
is
preaching
?
)
and
looke
1.
Cor.
14.
and
see
whether
Paul
doth
not
preferre
prophecying
before
all
other
spirituall
gifts
,
and
makes
it
to
bee
the
chiefe
,
euen
where
hee
also
speakes
touching
prayer
.
If
then
the
worship
of
God
is
worthie
of
respect
,
the
exercise
of
preaching
most
of
all
,
as
being
indeed
the
best
of
all
.
It
is
worthily
reiected
as
a
popish
barbarisme
by
learned
Morton
,
Apol.
p.
1.
lib.
2.
cap.
21.
that
opinion
,
that
the
duties
of
the
Sabbath
serue
not
so
much
to
edifie
the
people
,
as
to
serue
the
Lord
:
which
the
Papists
maintaine
for
the
vpholding
of
that
absurd
proposition
,
that
the
hearing
of
a
Masse
is
to
bee
preferred
before
the
hearing
of
the
word
.
So
that
by
the
best
of
iudgement
,
the
preaching
of
the
word
is
reputed
the
mainest
part
of
Gods
publike
worship
.
I
haue
now
done
with
the
prouing
of
the
doctrine
.
Euery
way
I
hope
it
is
cleere
:
Honour
and
esteeme
is
the
due
of
preaching
.
There
is
much
matter
by
way
of
vse
to
be
deriued
hence
:
A
double
vse
.
1.
For
Ministers
.
First
,
this
concernes
vs
that
are
Ministers
:
secondly
,
this
concernes
all
good
Christians
generally
.
First
for
vs
Ministers
,
this
doctrine
binds
vs
to
maintaine
by
al
good
meanes
the
honor
of
preaching
,
&
to
beware
how
we
do
bring
this
reuerend
and
sacred
ordinance
of
God
into
contempt
;
of
all
men
,
it
stands
vs
vpon
to
endeuour
that
that
may
bee
duly
esteemed
,
which
God
commands
not
to
be
despised
:
It
is
the
life
and
glorie
of
our
profession
:
it
were
a
strange
thing
if
we
should
not
care
to
bring
it
into
disgrace
:
I
say
it
is
the
glorie
of
our
profession
:
for
when
it
may
be
said
of
a
man
,
hee
is
a
Minister
,
but
no
Preacher
,
it
is
like
that
which
is
said
of
Naaman
[
](A03279-e12580-b)n
n
2.
King
.
5.1
.
,
he
was
a
great
man
,
and
honourable
in
the
sight
of
his
Lord
,
he
was
also
a
mightie
man
and
valiant
,
but
a
Leper
.
This
is
a
(
But
)
which
darkneth
all
the
rest
:
So
that
thereon
I
inferre
,
how
much
it
behoues
vs
,
to
labour
to
vphold
the
reputation
of
preaching
;
because
to
bee
termed
a
Preacher
,
is
the
fairest
flower
in
our
garland
.
Me
thinkes
I
should
not
say
much
of
this
:
and
therefore
I
will
rather
applie
my selfe
,
Three
things
by
which
a
Minister
shal
promote
the
honour
of
Preaching
.
1.
to
shew
how
wee
may
saue
this
course
from
contempt
,
then
to
proue
that
wee
are
in
equitie
tyed
thereunto
.
Thus
then
,
there
are
three
things
by
which
a
Minister
shall
aduance
the
honour
and
esteeme
of
prophecying
.
1.
Diligence
in
preaching
:
It
is
that
which
Paul
calleth
in
one
place
labouring
[
](A03279-e12640-b)o
o
1.
Tim.
5.17
,
;
in
another
,
a
being
instant
[
](A03279-e12660-b)p
p
2
Tim.
4.2
;
in
a
third
,
a
preaching
the
Gospell
with
much
striuing
[
](A03279-e12680-b)q
q
1.
Thes.
2
2.
;
It
is
the
Lords
worke
[
](A03279-e12700-b)r
r
1
Cor.
16.10
.
,
and
cursed
be
he
that
doth
it
negligently
[
](A03279-e12720-b)s
s
Iere.
48.10
.
.
It
may
be
thought
in
the
reason
of
flesh
and
blood
,
that
this
is
no
meanes
to
make
preaching
honorable
,
but
to
auile
it
rather
;
Obiect
.
in
as
much
as
(
according
to
the
old
saying
)
familiaritie
breedes
contempt
;
and
excellent
things
when
they
once
become
ordinarie
,
are
the
lesse
regarded
.
If
Sermons
were
daintie
,
and
mens
stomacks
were
kept
sharpe
,
they
would
be
more
esteemed
.
Answer
.
It
is
not
so
in
this
case
,
when
the
people
are
once
brought
to
vnderstand
the
necessitie
of
preaching
,
(
the
necessitie
,
I
say
,
both
for
saluation
and
for
the
worship
of
God
,
in
as
much
as
without
it
saluation
is
in
hazard
,
and
the
worship
of
God
is
maimed
)
surely
then
,
the
more
they
haue
it
,
the
more
they
will
honour
it
;
and
the
more
frequently
the
kingdome
of
God
is
preached
,
the
more
they
will
presse
vnto
it
[
](A03279-e12780-b)t
t
Luke
16.16
.
.
Looke
into
experience
,
and
see
whether
the
seldomnesse
of
this
seruice
doth
not
confirme
the
people
in
their
opinion
,
of
the
no
great
necessitie
of
it
;
which
is
the
maine
ground
of
contempt
?
Suppose
a
parish
haue
an
Incumbent
reputed
learned
,
but
yet
remisse
in
preaching
,
shall
not
his
slacknes
cause
the
people
to
conclude
,
that
preaching
is
not
so
simply
necessarie
as
it
is
thought
?
will
they
not
say
,
Our
Minister
is
learned
and
of
iudgement
,
and
knowes
what
is
what
;
surely
if
preaching
were
so
vsefull
,
hee
would
be
more
frequent
in
it
then
hee
is
?
And
what
hath
bred
those
preiudiciall
paradoxes
to
preaching
,
as
that
reading
is
preaching
,
&c.
but
the
indisposition
of
men
of
gifts
to
be
diligent
in
preaching
?
The
vnwillingnes
&
backwardnes
of
men
to
spend
themselues
this
way
,
hath
caused
(
for
the
hiding
of
their
shame
)
a
straining
of
wits
,
and
a
wresting
of
Scripture
,
to
proue
the
competencie
to
saluation
of
a
reading
Ministerie
:
such
spurious
propositions
had
neuer
seene
the
light
,
if
diligence
in
this
dutie
had
vniuersally
been
made
conscience
of
.
Therfore
we
must
yeeld
that
,
that
which
old
Latimer
(
a
man
who
sacrificed
his
life
in
Gods
cause
)
once
blamed
vnder
the
witty
terme
of
strawbery-preaching
,
is
a
speciall
meanes
to
lay
the
honour
of
preaching
in
the
dust
.
It
brings
a
rust
,
yea
and
a
curse
vpon
our
gifts
,
and
begets
a
kinde
of
habite
of
idlenes
,
and
causeth
the
people
to
respect
that
little
which
we
performe
but
little
:
when
I
speak
of
diligence
,
I
doe
not
meane
that
a
man
should
be
euer
and
anon
in
the
pulpit
:
for
there
must
be
a
time
of
gathering
,
as
well
as
of
dispersing
;
and
there
is
a
kinde
of
mercenarie
diligence
in
some
,
which
is
meete
to
be
restrained
:
but
this
is
diligence
;
a
man
is
readie
to
take
all
occasions
to
doe
good
;
especially
bindes
himselfe
constantly
vpon
Gods
day
to
be
busied
in
Gods
word
.
Happie
is
that
seruant
whom
his
master
when
he
commeth
shall
finde
so
doing
.
2.
The
manner
of
handling
the
word
of
God
in
preaching
so
as
it
is
fit
.
If
any
man
speake
,
The
second
way
of
honoring
preaching
by
Preachers
.
let
him
speake
as
the
words
of
God
[
](A03279-e12860-b)u
u
1.
Pet.
4.11
.
:
let
him
remember
what
hee
hath
in
hand
,
and
so
deale
accordingly
.
I
remember
how
often
Paul
stands
vpon
his
manner
of
preaching
[
](A03279-e12880-b)x
x
2.
Cor.
2.17.4.2
.
Thes.
23.
:
It
is
Hoseas
phrase
,
the
great
or
honourable
things
of
the
law
of
God
[
](A03279-e12920-b)y
y
Hos.
8.12
.
;
yet
may
these
be
so
vsed
,
as
that
they
may
seeme
base
to
those
that
heare
them
.
Woe
be
to
that
good
meate
that
must
passe
the
fingers
of
a
slouen
,
before
it
comes
to
the
mouth
of
the
eater
.
I
loue
not
to
be
forward
to
taxe
any
mans
preaching
,
and
therefore
I
will
so
speake
as
shewing
rather
what
may
be
,
then
what
is
.
There
may
be
a
preiudicing
and
an
endangering
the
honour
of
preaching
in
handling
it
,
two
waies
:
One
is
,
too
much
exactnes
:
as
when
men
striue
to
haue
euery
word
in
print
,
and
to
stand
in
equipage
;
one
neither
higher
nor
lower
,
neither
further
foorth
,
nor
more
bacward
then
another
;
and
doe
affect
termes
more
then
matter
:
embellishing
their
Sermons
with
the
gleanings
of
all
manner
of
authors
,
sacred
,
prophane
,
any
thing
which
may
bee
thought
to
smell
of
learning
,
and
may
raise
an
opinion
of
Eloquence
,
profoundnes
,
varietie
of
reading
in
the
hearers
.
Obiect
.
Will
,
I
say
,
this
make
preaching
to
be
despised
?
Answer
.
rather
it
is
like
to
procure
admiration
and
reuerence
,
and
to
cause
a
kinde
of
astonishment
in
the
hearers
:
happely
it
may
for
the
present
draw
some
such
superficiall
respect
to
a
Preacher
,
as
that
which
is
counted
euen
by
the
heathen
a
vanitie
in
Demosthenes
:
Tully
termes
him
Leuiculus
Demosthenes
.
Tus
.
Qu.
Hic
est
ille
Demosthenes
.
he
said
it
pleased
him
secretly
when
as
hee
went
in
the
streetes
,
hee
should
heare
the
women
that
carried
water
,
say
,
There
goeth
eloquent
Demosthenes
.
Thus
a
man
may
be
rewarded
with
some
such
breath
for
this
windy
kind
of
preaching
:
but
when
it
commeth
to
the
touch
,
this
shall
bee
found
to
dishonour
Gods
ordinance
in
true
iudgement
.
For
what
is
that
which
indeed
makes
preaching
honourable
in
the
hearts
of
Gods
people
,
but
their
vnderstanding
it
,
so
as
that
they
may
feele
the
sweetnes
of
it
,
and
receiue
comfort
by
it
?
That
therefore
which
hindreth
vnderstanding
must
needs
expose
this
course
to
a
kinde
of
disgrace
:
what
contentment
shal
a
man
take
in
it
,
when
he
conceiues
but
little
what
it
meanes
?
It
comes
in
our
ordinarie
congregations
,
to
as
little
purpose
(
such
a
kind
of
teaching
)
as
that
which
is
said
in
the
Prouerb
,
Hic
mulget
hircum
,
ille
supponit
cribrum
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
?
Where
one
doth
milke
a
goate
,
another
holds
vnder
a
sieue
.
It
may
bee
the
matter
is
good
and
excellent
,
but
the
hearer
holds
no
more
then
a
sieue
:
because
nothing
to
any
great
purpose
is
vnderstood
.
It
is
the
pithie
plainnes
,
which
is
the
beautie
of
preaching
.
A
text
well
opened
,
handsomely
diuided
,
instructions
familiarly
raised
,
substantially
proued
by
the
Scripture
,
powerfully
pressed
vpon
the
hid
man
of
the
heart
,
faithfully
applied
to
the
soule
&
conscience
of
the
hearer
.
This
is
the
course
which
makes
manifest
the
secret
of
his
heart
,
and
brings
him
to
fall
downe
on
his
face
and
worship
God
,
and
to
say
that
God
is
in
the
Preacher
indeed
[
](A03279-e13040-b)z
z
1.
Cor.
14.25
.
Ferrum
potest
quod
aurum
non
potest
.
.
It
is
truly
said
that
in
some
cases
Iron
can
doe
that
which
gold
cannot
:
and
so
that
which
is
by
some
in
their
nicenes
and
curiositie
accounted
but
a
blunt
kinde
of
teaching
,
shall
yet
doe
that
which
the
more
glorious
,
and
glistring
and
gaudie
course
could
not
effect
.
The
kingdome
of
God
is
not
in
word
,
but
in
power
[
](A03279-e13080-b)a
a
1.
Cor.
4.20
.
.
I
haue
heard
of
a
thing
that
fell
out
once
at
the
Councell
of
Nice
,
where
a
Christian
of
no
great
learning
in
esteeme
,
Ruffin
.
hist.
lib.
2.
cap.
3.
conuerted
a
learned
man
,
whom
all
the
learned
Bishops
with
all
their
skill
and
eloquence
could
not
perswade
:
the
partie
wonne
,
brake
out
into
these
words
:
Oh
you
learned
men
,
as
long
as
the
matter
went
by
words
,
against
words
I
opposed
words
;
and
that
which
was
spoken
I
ouerthrew
by
the
art
of
speaking
:
but
when
in
stead
of
words
power
came
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
speaker
;
Non
poterunt
verba
resistere
veritati
(
or
,
virtuti
)
nec
homo
aduersari
potuit
Deo
.
words
could
not
withstand
truth
,
nor
man
stand
out
against
God
.
Thus
that
plaine
kinde
of
teaching
,
in
which
the
euidence
of
the
spirit
is
to
be
seene
,
works
that
which
the
more
curious
and
refined
eloquence
could
not
doe
.
A
second
way
,
by
which
in
handling
the
word
,
preaching
may
be
made
contemptible
,
is
in
another
extreame
:
namely
,
when
the
manner
of
dealing
with
the
word
is
ouer
sleight
,
too
loose
,
and
superficiall
;
a
man
vents
raw
,
sudden
,
vndigested
meditations
,
such
as
haue
no
manner
of
coherence
,
either
with
the
text
,
or
with
themselues
:
the
text
is
rather
torne
,
then
diuided
,
rather
tossed
,
then
handled
;
rather
named
(
because
it
is
the
fashion
to
haue
a
text
)
then
followed
so
,
as
that
the
hearer
may
see
the
course
,
by
which
all
is
drawne
from
the
text
.
Here
a
man
makes
a
shift
to
rub
out
an
houre
,
and
to
haue
somewhat
still
to
say
;
he
is
much
like
the
begger
,
of
whom
we
say
,
he
is
neuer
out
of
his
way
,
though
he
be
neuer
in
his
way
:
so
in
this
case
,
a
man
is
neuer
out
of
matter
,
though
he
speakes
neuer
to
the
matter
.
This
makes
preaching
ridiculous
,
&
laieth
it
open
(
as
it
falleth
from
some
mouthes
)
vnto
a
iust
scorne
.
The
common
sort
happely
espy
not
the
weaknes
by
and
by
,
thinking
all
well
so
long
as
one
goeth
on
;
but
the
more
aduised
holding
it
vp
,
(
as
it
were
against
the
light
)
see
the
rawnesse
and
raggednes
and
independance
of
that
which
is
deliuered
.
It
is
an
honor
to
a
Sermon
,
when
(
as
the
saying
is
)
it
shall
smell
of
the
candle
,
and
testifie
for
it selfe
,
that
there
was
afore-hand
care
to
deale
substantially
,
and
to
approue
our selues
to
euery
hearers
conscience
in
the
sight
of
God
.
The
third
thing
to
be
taken
heed
to
,
The
third
way
for
Ministers
to
honour
Preaching
by
.
that
we
may
preserue
the
honour
of
preaching
,
is
our
manner
of
life
.
An
euill
life
in
Preachers
cannot
but
cause
preaching
to
be
vile
:
I
call
it
an
euill
life
,
not
when
a
man
failes
in
some
things
;
For
in
many
things
we
faile
all
[
](A03279-e13190-b)b
b
Iam.
3.2
.
:
but
when
a
man
maketh
it
to
appeare
by
his
course
,
that
he
makes
no
conscience
of
framing
his
life
according
to
his
owne
teaching
:
is
strait
in
the
pulpit
,
and
in
the
streete
dissolute
.
There
is
a
great
readinesse
in
many
to
picke
quarrels
with
the
liues
of
the
best
Teachers
,
and
no
doubt
many
things
are
slanderously
reported
touching
such
.
Cruell
witnesses
arise
vp
,
and
aske
things
they
know
not
[
](A03279-e13210-b)c
c
Psal.
35.11
.
:
but
when
men
taking
the
ordinance
of
God
into
their
mouthes
,
shall
yet
walke
like
men
hating
to
bee
reformed
,
and
runne
into
the
same
excesse
with
others
,
and
be
iustly
taxable
with
open
and
scandalous
euils
;
what
can
more
dishonour
preaching
?
will
it
not
cause
it
to
be
reputed
a
meere
toy
?
A
man
shall
be
seene
to
perswade
to
that
,
which
himselfe
ordinarilie
neglects
;
and
to
crie
out
against
that
,
of
which
himselfe
doth
make
a
common
practise
.
Let
no
man
despise
thee
,
said
Paul
to
Timothy
:
how
shall
that
be
?
Be
vnto
them
that
beleeue
an
example
[
](A03279-e13260-b)d
d
1.
Tim.
4.12
.
.
I
haue
here
a
large
field
before
me
,
but
I
would
be
loth
to
preuent
my selfe
in
that
I
haue
to
say
:
and
therefore
I
here
shut
vp
this
vse
,
touching
vs
of
the
Ministerie
.
Preaching
deserues
esteeme
,
take
wee
heede
how
wee
expose
it
to
contempt
.
Our
diligence
in
dispensing
the
word
;
our
reuerend
and
well
aduised
handling
the
word
;
our
endeuouring
in
the
eyes
of
the
people
to
frame
our
liues
according
to
the
word
,
shall
vphold
the
credit
of
this
worthie
seruice
:
Men
(
though
we
do
this
)
some
will
despise
notwithstanding
,
and
speake
contemptuously
both
of
vs
and
of
our
ministerie
:
yet
in
doing
it
,
they
shall
be
as
the
Heretike
,
of
whom
Paul
,
who
is
condemned
by
himselfe
[
](A03279-e13280-b)e
e
Tit.
3.11
.
.
The
second
vse
for
al
Christians
in
generall
.
I
am
now
come
to
the
second
vse
,
which
concernes
all
Christians
more
in
generall
:
All
that
professe
to
expect
saluation
by
Iesus
Christ
,
are
bound
to
this
dutie
,
to
saue
preaching
(
as
much
as
may
be
)
from
despising
.
This
may
be
done
(
that
I
may
not
say
all
which
might
bee
said
,
Two
things
by
which
ordinary
Christians
may
saue
preaching
from
contempt
but
may
insist
only
vpon
the
chiefest
)
by
two
things
especially
.
1.
By
a
constant
and
an
vnwearied
dependance
vpon
preaching
,
seeking
by
all
meanes
possible
to
enioy
it
.
Haue
wee
not
reason
to
depend
on
it
,
whe
,
n
where
it
wanteth
the
people
perish
[
](A03279-e13330-b)f
f
Prou.
29.18
.
?
And
shall
we
not
honour
it
exceedingly
,
when
our
feet
shall
euen
weare
out
the
threshold
of
that
house
,
where
it
is
faithfully
dispensed
?
and
when
we
shall
seeke
knowledge
at
the
lips
of
the
Priests
with
such
earnestnes
,
as
if
wee
were
guided
by
that
spirit
which
was
in
those
primitiue
Conuerts
,
that
cried
out
to
Peter
and
the
rest
,
Men
and
brethren
what
shall
we
doe
[
](A03279-e13360-b)g
g
Act.
2.37
.
?
It
will
appeare
that
wee
esteeme
Gods
ordinance
,
when
wee
shall
for
the
sake
of
it
neglect
our
profit
,
hazard
our
outward
peace
,
seeme
carelesse
of
our
credit
,
straine
our
purses
,
and
be
like
the
Merchant
in
the
Gospell
,
that
part
's
with
all
that
hee
hath
for
one
speciall
Pearle
[
](A03279-e13380-b)h
h
Matth.
13.46
.
.
Great
contempt
is
cast
vpon
prophecying
at
this
day
,
by
default
herein
;
I
will
not
so
much
speake
of
those
who
cast
no
manner
of
respect
vnto
it
,
but
openly
and
ordinarily
,
and
in
a
sort
professedly
doe
auile
it
;
but
of
those
which
make
some
show
to
esteeme
it
.
That
is
most
pitifull
when
such
as
pretend
a
kinde
of
honour
,
shall
yet
by
consequent
be
found
despisers
.
First
some
would
(
as
they
make
show
)
waite
on
this
meanes
,
but
they
will
make
their
own
conditions
:
prouided
that
it
comes
home
to
them
;
that
they
may
haue
it
without
trouble
:
Oh
how
glad
would
they
be
,
had
they
a
Preacher
in
their
Churches
;
they
would
thinke
it
to
be
none
of
the
smallest
portions
of
their
happinesse
?
But
when
it
comes
to
the
poynt
of
seeking
out
and
of
trauelling
to
the
Prophet
with
the
Shunamite
[
](A03279-e13390-b)i
i
2.
King
.
4.
;
or
else
of
cutting
off
some
of
their
superfluities
,
and
of
stinting
themselues
in
other
things
,
that
they
may
draw
to
them
some
able
Minister
of
the
new
Testament
;
then
they
begin
to
be
as
backward
and
sorrowfull
as
the
rich
man
in
the
Gospell
,
who
as
forward
as
hee
seemed
at
first
,
yet
began
to
flinch
,
when
hee
heard
the
charge
of
selling
;
and
so
they
,
after
a
large
commendation
of
preaching
,
and
a
faire
tale
of
their
esteeming
it
,
yet
while
they
are
afraid
of
trouble
,
and
reproch
,
and
labour
,
and
are
loth
to
be
at
any
charges
,
they
still
content
themselues
with
an
vnable
ministerie
.
Here
is
a
faire
honour
done
to
preaching
.
For
shame
,
if
our
hearts
bee
to
it
,
(
as
woe
be
to
vs
if
they
be
not
)
let
vs
engage
our selues
for
it
.
Remember
what
hath
been
both
said
and
prooued
,
there
is
no
other
ordinarie
way
of
saluation
:
and
wilt
thou
not
straine
thy
body
,
thy
purse
,
thy
credit
;
aduenture
thy
outward
peace
;
doe
any
thing
that
thou
maist
be
saued
?
It
is
no
honoring
of
the
ordinance
of
God
,
if
thou
canst
any
way
satisfie
and
content
thy selfe
without
it
.
I
shall
be
thought
(
perhaps
to
perswade
strange
things
,
and
(
as
may
be
thought
)
not
iustifiable
.
But
doe
me
right
,
I
pray
you
,
in
indifference
,
considering
what
I
say
:
Behold
Luk.
6.17
.
and
marke
what
you
finde
there
:
A
great
multitude
of
people
out
of
all
Iudea
,
and
Ierusalem
,
and
from
the
sea
coasts
of
Tyre
and
Sidon
which
came
to
heare
him
.
Did
these
say
,
If
this
good
man
would
come
to
vs
,
how
glad
should
we
be
?
but
they
went
out
to
him
,
they
left
their
blind
guides
and
followed
this
Seer
where
he
was
,
I
demaund
;
Is
not
this
written
for
our
learning
?
Can
we
say
,
it
was
not
well
that
they
did
?
were
they
not
worthie
of
praise
for
so
doing
?
Then
say
I
with
the
Apostle
,
Whatsoeuer
things
are
honest
and
of
good
report
,
those
things
doe
[
](A03279-e13450-b)k
k
Phil.
4
8.
.
And
if
this
satisfie
not
,
and
you
suspect
my
iudgement
,
I
pray
looke
into
the
booke
you
haue
in
your
parishes
,
the
Workes
of
Bishop
Iewell
,
in
his
Sermons
vpon
this
chapter
,
and
vpon
the
12.
and
13.
verses
:
what
shall
wee
say
of
them
that
labour
not
,
that
doe
neither
teach
,
nor
exhort
,
nor
reproue
,
nor
correct
;
that
haue
no
care
to
doe
their
message
;
and
no
regard
to
the
people
,
what
may
I
say
of
such
?
God
himselfe
saith
,
They
are
dumbe
dogges
that
cannot
barke
,
they
lie
and
sleepe
,
and
delight
in
sleeping
,
they
all
looke
to
their
owne
way
,
and
their
owne
aduantage
,
and
euery
one
for
his
owne
purpose
[
](A03279-e13480-b)l
l
Isai.
56.10.11
.
Christ
calleth
them
Theeues
and
Robbers
.
They
are
vnsauourie
salt
,
profitable
for
nothing
,
but
to
be
cast
foorth
and
●●oden
vnder
feet
of
men
.
Woe
is
vnto
me
(
saith
Paul
)
if
I
preach
not
the
Gospell
[
](A03279-e13510-b)m
m
1.
Cor.
9.16
.
.
Woe
to
the
seruant
that
wrappeth
his
tallent
in
a
napkin
,
and
increaseth
not
his
Masters
gaine
.
God
grant
such
idle
and
slothfull
Ministers
grace
to
know
their
office
,
and
to
doe
it
:
If
not
,
God
giue
the
people
grace
to
know
them
,
and
to
shunne
them
,
and
to
flie
from
them
.
(
So
farre
he
:
)
Which
words
if
they
doe
not
teach
,
not
to
be
satisfied
without
preaching
,
and
to
shunne
those
which
are
vnsufficient
,
and
negligent
in
that
dutie
,
for
my
part
I
must
acknowledge
I
doe
not
vnderstand
English
.
Let
this
then
be
our
honour
giuen
to
preaching
,
euen
to
striue
that
we
may
enioy
it
,
and
to
put
our selues
to
hard
conditions
,
rather
then
to
want
it
.
And
doe
you
of
this
towne
particularly
take
notice
of
it
;
see
how
God
hath
moued
the
hearts
of
the
Worshipful
of
these
parts
,
to
pitie
your
necessitie
;
and
to
procure
a
course
of
preaching
with
you
,
not
so
much
that
you
might
rest
content
with
this
,
or
say
as
Micah
the
Ephramite
,
when
he
had
got
a
Leuite
into
his
house
,
Now
I
know
that
the
Lord
will
doe
me
good
,
seeing
I
haue
a
Leuit
to
my
Priest
[
](A03279-e13540-b)n
n
Iudg.
17.13
.
;
so
now
,
We
are
safe
,
we
haue
a
Lecture
in
our
towne
.
No
,
if
you
shall
not
set
together
amongst
your selues
,
to
haue
it
amongst
you
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
the
day
principally
deputed
to
this
seruice
,
for
my
part
I
shall
thinke
our
paines
here
(
in
respect
of
you
)
to
be
vnprofitable
.
2
,
There
is
another
kinde
of
dependance
,
which
is
also
preiudiciall
to
the
honor
of
preaching
,
and
that
is
that
which
is
but
by
fits
&
starts
;
somewhat
eger
happely
at
the
beginning
,
but
slaking
by
degrees
,
till
it
come
to
nothing
:
you
will
disgrace
it
here
much
,
if
filling
the
Church
now
at
the
first
,
you
shall
hereafter
,
like
men
whose
stomackes
are
full
,
begin
to
grow
wearie
and
full
of
that
which
you
now
seeme
to
affect
.
Giue
vs
not
occasion
to
say
hereafter
as
Christ
of
Iohn
;
He
was
a
burning
and
a
shining
light
,
and
you
were
willing
for
a
season
to
reioyce
in
this
light
[
](A03279-e13580-b)o
o
Ioh.
5.35
.
.
It
is
a
thing
to
be
suspected
:
experience
sheweth
,
that
(
as
the
saying
is
)
euery
thing
is
pretie
when
it
is
young
;
so
such
exercises
as
these
,
are
flocked
vnto
at
the
first
,
but
after
,
men
by
little
and
little
fall
off
:
some
will
heare
onely
this
man
,
some
onely
that
man
;
some
onely
now
and
then
,
when
they
haue
occasion
to
come
to
towne
;
some
neuer
a
whit
:
You
will
bring
a
disgrace
vpon
our
paines
here
,
if
you
shall
cause
it
to
be
thought
that
wee
haue
cloyed
your
stomackes
,
and
taken
away
the
edge
of
your
appetites
.
Haue
not
the
faith
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
the
Lord
of
glorie
with
respect
of
persons
[
](A03279-e13600-b)p
p
Iam.
2.1
.
:
make
much
of
,
and
honor
any
mans
endeuours
that
doth
his
dutie
vpon
his
conscience
.
This
shall
be
your
first
way
of
honoring
preaching
;
your
manner
of
dependance
vpon
it
let
it
be
earnest
,
painfull
,
constant
;
let
it
appeare
that
you
will
not
hope
to
be
saued
,
but
by
the
meanes
that
God
hath
sanctified
.
The
second
way
of
honoring
preaching
by
common
Christians
.
The
second
way
by
which
you
shall
honour
preaching
,
is
,
yeelding
obedience
to
that
which
is
taught
,
and
conformitie
in
life
to
our
preaching
.
It
is
not
the
bare
hearer
,
but
the
doer
withall
that
shall
be
blessed
[
](A03279-e13650-b)q
q
Iam.
1.25
.
.
There
is
no
fouller
staine
to
preaching
,
then
when
they
which
say
they
loue
it
,
and
desire
it
,
and
esteeme
and
follow
after
it
,
and
trauaile
to
enioy
it
,
shall
yet
make
no
conscience
of
obedience
to
it
:
How
doth
this
open
the
mouthes
of
gain-saiers
,
and
embolden
them
to
their
imputations
vpon
preaching
,
when
they
shall
haue
some
colour
to
crie
out
,
there
be
none
worse
,
more
proud
,
wanton
,
contentions
,
couetous
,
oppressing
,
fraudulent
,
then
the
greatest
hearers
?
when
you
walke
not
according
to
the
rules
you
are
taught
,
you
make
preaching
and
professing
to
be
reputed
the
nurserie
of
vngodlinesse
,
and
the
couert
for
all
villanie
.
And
therfore
,
you
that
are
of
the
first
sort
,
Gentlemen
and
Iustices
,
who
haue
laboured
to
draw
Preachers
hither
,
and
who
now
giue
countenance
to
vs
by
your
presence
,
honour
vs
also
(
I
pray
you
)
with
your
holy
practise
:
make
it
to
appeare
by
your
zealous
execution
of
Iustice
,
when
you
sit
here
vpon
the
businesse
of
the
Countrey
,
by
your
suppressing
of
grosse
disorders
,
and
that
world
of
Alehouses
,
that
is
,
and
which
is
the
very
neast
of
all
wickednes
;
and
by
the
reformation
of
your
followers
and
families
;
and
principally
by
the
Christian
cariage
of
your selues
;
and
by
the
abatement
of
your
excesses
,
vaine
pleasures
,
Epicurismes
,
swearings
,
and
such
like
,
that
you
haue
not
drawne
preaching
hither
for
a
forme
,
or
out
of
a
glorie
;
but
that
in
sinceritie
of
heart
,
you
haue
sought
your
owne
furtherance
in
the
waies
of
pietie
.
Let
it
not
be
said
,
(
as
it
will
be
,
if
you
preuent
it
not
)
Behold
,
here
be
such
and
such
,
euery
weeke
at
Sermon
,
and
yet
how
doe
they
liue
rather
as
Atheists
,
and
enemies
to
Religion
,
then
as
godly
Christians
?
And
you
of
the
towne
,
who
seeme
to
bee
glad
of
this
erected
course
,
resolue
with
your selues
that
you
will
set
on
with
a
generall
reformation
.
Let
vs
see
some
fruit
by
our
labours
with
you
:
giue
no
cause
to
haue
it
thought
,
you
reioyce
in
this
for
outward
respects
;
as
to
encrease
,
your
Market
;
and
to
draw
companie
to
your
towne
,
or
to
vent
your
commodities
;
or
that
you
may
glorie
;
Oh
wee
haue
a
Lecture
too
,
as
well
as
such
a
towne
,
or
as
such
:
but
as
other
adioyning
townes
shall
be
beholding
to
you
,
for
borrowing
from
your
Church
the
light
of
Doctrine
;
so
let
them
receiue
from
you
the
light
of
good
example
.
And
you
all
,
whether
Gentlemen
or
Yeomen
,
or
whatsoeuer
else
,
I
beseech
you
in
the
feare
of
God
,
receiue
not
this
grace
of
God
in
vaine
;
make
some
vse
of
your
comming
;
learne
to
practise
that
,
by
which
your
families
through
you
may
be
bettered
;
your
neighbors
prouoked
,
especially
your
owne
soules
comforted
in
the
day
of
Christ
.
Let
not
the
Lecture-day
(
now
when
the
Sermon
is
ended
)
be
made
a
day
of
voluptuousnes
,
of
quaffing
,
swaggering
,
disorder
;
goe
not
from
the
Church
to
eate
out
,
and
eate
vp
one
another
in
the
Market
,
by
fraud
and
crueltie
:
Runne
not
euery
man
to
his
rase
,
as
a
horse
to
the
battell
,
but
let
vs
haue
comfort
to
spend
our
spirits
among
you
,
when
we
shall
behold
your
good
conuersation
in
Christ
,
that
wee
all
both
Preachers
and
hearers
may
reioyce
together
at
the
last
day
,
that
we
haue
not
runne
in
vaine
.
If
you
faile
in
this
,
it
is
not
your
comming
to
heare
vs
,
your
commending
vs
,
your
respectiue
saluting
vs
,
your
prouiding
to
entertaine
vs
,
that
can
honour
our
ministerie
:
we
shall
(
notwithstanding
all
this
complement
)
hang
downe
our
heads
with
shame
and
say
;
You
haue
requited
our
labour
with
intolerable
contempt
.
FINIS
.