A
SERMON
,
DESCRIBING
THE
DVTY
OF
A
GODLY
MINISTER
.
2.
TIM.
2.15
.
Study
to
shew
thy selfe
approued
vnto
God
,
a
Worke-man
that
needeth
not
to
be
ashamed
,
diuiding
the
Word
of
truth
aright
.
THis
Timotheus
,
to
whom
both
these
Epistles
are
written
,
hauing
beene
brought
vp
in
the
knowledge
of
the
holy
Scriptures
from
his
cradle
;
2.
Tim.
3.15
.
and
hauing
alwaies
been
faithfull
in
the
profession
of
Christian
Religion
,
was
therefore
in
very
great
estimation
with
the
Apostle
Paul
;
Act.
16.3.4
.
&
20.4
.
&
Rom.
16.21
.
and
was
either
one
of
his
Companions
in
his
peregrinations
;
or
else
when
the
Apostle
himselfe
was
kept
in
prison
,
he
imployed
him
as
a
Minister
,
and
sent
him
to
confirme
the
Churches
which
he
had
planted
.
Thus
was
he
sent
to
the
Corinthians
,
1.
Cor.
4.17
.
1.
Thes.
3.2
.
To
put
them
in
remembrance
of
that
which
the
Apostle
had
taught
.
Thus
was
he
also
sent
to
the
Thessalonians
,
To
establish
them
,
and
to
comfort
them
touching
their
faith
.
For
this
cause
,
1.
Cor.
4.17
.
&
16.10
.
Phil.
2.22
.
&
1.
Thes.
3.2
.
Act.
16.9.10.1
.
Tim.
1.3
.
wheresoeuer
the
Apostle
maketh
mention
of
him
,
he
doth
alwayes
giue
him
very
great
commendation
.
Now
,
when
the
Apostle
was
himselfe
to
depart
into
Macedonia
,
where
the
Lord
had
called
him
by
a
vision
to
preach
the
Gospell
;
he
left
Timotheus
at
Ephesus
,
to
resist
the
false
Teachers
,
which
were
crept
into
the
Church
,
and
began
to
corrupt
sound
doctrine
,
thereby
to
draw
men
from
the
sinceritie
of
faith
.
And
because
there
was
not
yet
a
sufficient
number
of
Ministers
in
the
Church
of
Ephesus
to
preach
the
Gospell
,
therefore
the
Apostle
giueth
him
authority
,
to
ordayne
as
many
as
should
be
needfull
.
And
for
his
better
direction
in
so
waighty
a
businesse
,
1.
Tim.
3.15
.
hee
writeth
the
former
Epistle
vnto
him
,
teaching
him
,
what
hee
is
chiefly
to
respect
in
the
imposition
of
hands
,
and
shewing
,
who
are
to
be
admitted
vnto
that
great
and
high
calling
,
and
who
are
to
be
reiected
.
And
because
Timotheus
,
2.
Tim.
1.4
.
as
a
louing
Schollar
,
was
much
grieued
,
and
shed
many
teares
,
at
the
departure
of
so
kind
a
Master
,
1.
Tim.
3.14
.
therefore
to
comfort
him
,
the
Apostle
promised
in
the
former
Epistle
,
if
it
were
possible
,
to
come
vnto
him
againe
very
shortly
.
But
being
in
the
meane
while
carried
as
a
prisoner
to
Rome
,
and
hauing
now
no
hope
euer
to
returne
againe
to
Ephesus
,
2.
Tim
4.6
.
but
rather
looking
euery
day
for
present
death
:
hee
writeth
this
second
Epistle
vnto
Timotheus
,
both
to
confirme
and
arme
him
against
the
feare
of
persecution
,
which
in
regard
of
his
youth
might
trouble
and
dismay
him
:
and
also
,
to
direct
him
further
,
how
to
behaue
himselfe
in
the
gouernement
of
Gods
Church
.
But
not
to
spend
time
in
vn-folding
the
whole
Epistle
,
but
to
come
neere
the
wordes
that
are
to
bee
handled
;
in
this
second
Chapter
,
the
Apostle
first
of
all
exhorteth
Timotheus
vnto
cheerefulnesse
,
and
diligence
in
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
and
to
appoint
meet
and
sufficient
Ministers
,
for
the
propagating
of
sound
doctrine
vnto
posteritie
;
which
exhortation
,
with
the
reasons
of
it
,
is
continued
vnto
the
9.
verse
.
Secondly
,
hee
comforteth
him
by
many
arguments
,
both
against
that
offence
he
might
take
at
his
bonds
and
imprisonment
,
and
also
against
the
feare
of
persecution
,
which
might
befall
himselfe
likewise
:
and
that
vnto
the
14.
verse
.
Thirdly
,
because
euen
then
the
Church
began
to
be
troubled
with
contentions
,
disputations
,
and
strife
about
words
,
in
the
14.
verse
he
exhorteth
him
to
restraine
them
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
.
And
first
,
the
more
to
terrifie
those
that
delighted
in
such
peeuish
oppositions
,
he
bids
him
vse
great
vehemency
of
speech
in
reprouing
them
,
euen
to
protest
vnto
them
before
the
Lord
;
thereby
insinuating
,
how
dangerous
a
thing
this
litigious
and
wrangling
knowledge
is
.
Then
he
setteth
downe
two
arguments
to
disswade
from
them
,
taken
from
the
vnprofitable
effects
of
them
.
First
,
that
they
are
to
no
profit
,
Altercando
veritas
amittitur
,
Caluin
.
in
locum
.
neither
to
the
Teachers
themselues
,
who
thereby
come
to
lose
the
truth
:
nor
yet
to
their
Hearers
,
who
by
such
courses
are
not
at
all
built
vp
in
Faith
and
Charitie
,
which
is
the
true
vse
of
Christian
doctrine
.
2.
Tim.
1.13
.
Secondly
,
that
such
contentions
are
so
farre
from
profiting
,
as
that
rather
they
tend
to
the
peruerting
of
the
hearers
:
turning
them
away
from
true
Faith
,
and
so
consequently
,
from
euerlasting
saluation
.
Now
,
because
as
Caluin
obserueth
,
all
this
stirre
and
strife
in
doctrine
ariseth
from
this
Fountayne
,
that
men
of
good
,
but
vnsanctified
wits
,
desire
in
a
vaine
ostentation
to
vaunt
and
set
forth
themselues
and
their
gifts
before
men
:
therefore
,
the
Apostle
in
this
verse
,
prescribeth
a
most
excellent
remedie
for
that
disease
,
exhorting
Timotheus
,
and
all
other
in
his
place
,
to
cast
their
eyes
vpon
God
,
making
it
their
chiefe
studie
to
approue
themselues
to
him
,
in
the
faithfull
execution
of
their
ministerie
,
and
in
the
sincere
performance
of
those
dueties
which
God
requireth
of
them
.
As
if
he
should
say
,
Let
others
that
delight
in
it
,
seeke
to
win
the
applause
of
men
:
but
doe
thou
studie
to
approue
thy selfe
and
thy
ministerie
vnto
God
.
And
thus
doe
these
wordes
depend
on
that
which
went
before
.
In
the
handling
whereof
,
for
our
more
orderly
proceeding
,
let
vs
consider
these
two
things
:
first
,
the
duetie
whereunto
the
Apostle
exhorteth
Timotheus
:
and
secondly
,
the
meanes
prescribed
for
the
better
performance
thereof
.
The
duetie
is
this
,
that
he
studie
to
approue
him selfe
to
God
.
The
meanes
whereby
this
may
be
effected
,
are
two
:
first
,
if
he
be
a
worke-man
,
and
such
a
one
as
needeth
not
to
be
ashamed
.
Secondly
,
if
he
diuide
the
Word
of
truth
aright
.
And
thus
much
for
the
opening
and
resoluing
of
the
wordes
.
Let
vs
now
proceede
to
the
doctrines
and
instructions
,
that
arise
from
them
.
Studie
to
shew
thy selfe
approued
to
God
.
)
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
à
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
festinatio
.
The
word
that
is
rendred
studie
,
is
of
great
force
in
the
originall
,
and
signifieth
to
endeuour
to
the
vttermost
of
ones
power
,
to
vse
al
diligence
,
and
euen
to
inforce
a
mans
selfe
to
doe
a
thing
,
and
so
it
is
vsed
and
translated
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Solicitè
stude
&
ante
omnia
hoc
labora
,
&c.
Hieron
in
loc.
2.
Pet.
1.10
.
Giue
diligence
to
make
your
calling
and
election
sure
.
And
,
Hebr.
6.11
.
Shew
the
same
diligence
.
And
therefore
S.
Ierome
readeth
it
,
study
carefully
or
diligently
:
and
labour
for
this
aboue
all
things
,
&c.
This
then
may
bee
our
first
instruction
.
Doct.
1
That
it
ought
to
be
the
chiefe
and
principall
care
of
a
Minister
of
the
Word
,
to
approue
himselfe
vnto
God
.
This
was
the
endeuour
of
the
Apostle
Paul
,
as
himselfe
testifieth
.
1.
Cor.
4
3.4
.
As
touching
me
,
saith
he
,
I
passe
very
little
to
be
iudged
of
you
,
or
of
mans
iudgement
:
no
,
I
iudge
not
mine
owne
selfe
.
For
I
know
nothing
by
my selfe
,
yet
am
I
not
thereby
iustified
;
but
he
that
iudgeth
me
,
is
the
Lord
.
Vpon
which
place
Musculus
giueth
this
good
note
.
The
faithfulnesse
of
a
Minister
of
Christ
,
is
not
commended
in
that
,
that
hee
hee
appeare
faithfull
to
men
,
but
that
hee
bee
found
faithfull
of
Christ
the
Lord
.
And
therefore
,
saith
he
,
this
hee
studieth
most
,
that
from
his
heart
hee
may
serue
Christ
,
seeking
nothing
else
but
to
aduance
his
Kingdome
.
And
in
another
place
the
Apostle
saith
,
2.
Cor.
4.2
.
In
declaration
of
the
truth
we
approue
our selues
to
euery
mans
conscience
in
the
sight
of
God
.
And
againe
,
In
all
things
we
approue
our selues
as
the
Ministers
of
God
.
&
6.4
.
The
same
care
ought
to
bee
in
all
other
godly
Ministers
.
The
reason
is
,
because
euery
good
Minister
is
the
seruant
of
God
,
and
that
after
a
speciall
manner
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
:
God
is
my
witnesse
,
whom
I
serue
in
my
Spirit
,
Rom.
1.9
.
in
the
Gospell
of
his
Sonne
:
and
in
another
place
,
1.
Tim.
1.12
.
Hee
counted
me
faithfull
,
saith
he
,
and
put
me
in
his
seruice
.
Now
,
as
euery
good
seruant
is
carefull
to
approue
himselfe
to
his
owne
Master
,
aboue
all
other
:
so
should
euery
godly
Minister
desire
most
of
all
to
approue
himselfe
to
God
.
Yea
,
it
is
required
of
earthly
seruants
,
that
in
the
seruice
they
performe
to
their
bodily
masters
,
they
should
seeke
the
approbation
of
God
,
and
therefore
they
are
commanded
,
Ephes
6.7
.
Cel.
3.23
.
With
good
will
to
serue
the
Lord
,
and
not
men
.
And
,
Whatsoeuer
they
doe
,
to
doe
it
heartily
,
as
to
the
Lord
,
and
not
vnto
men
.
Much
more
should
Ministers
,
who
doe
immediately
serue
the
Lord
,
in
the
worke
of
the
ministerie
,
seeke
to
approue
themselues
vnto
him
.
In
the
beginning
of
this
Chapter
,
2.
Tim.
2.3
.
the
Apostle
calleth
Timotheus
(
and
so
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
)
a
good
Souldier
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Now
,
a
Souldier
hauing
by
oath
bound
himselfe
to
his
Captayne
,
or
Generall
,
endeuoureth
so
to
carry
himselfe
in
the
warres
,
as
he
may
please
him
that
hath
chosen
him
to
be
a
Souldier
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
.
In
like
manner
,
a
Minister
hauing
giuen
vp
his
name
,
and
bound
himselfe
to
fight
vnder
the
Banner
,
not
of
some
earthly
Captayne
,
as
Alexander
,
or
Caesar
,
or
such
like
,
but
of
Christ
Iesus
,
the
great
Generall
of
heauen
and
earth
,
ought
so
to
behaue
himselfe
in
all
things
that
appertayne
vnto
his
duety
,
as
he
may
be
approued
and
accepted
of
him
that
called
him
.
Vse
.
1
This
doctrine
,
to
make
some
vse
of
it
,
serueth
first
,
for
the
iust
reproofe
of
those
,
who
not
regarding
the
approbation
of
God
,
doe
affect
and
hunt
after
the
vaine
and
popular
applause
of
men
:
gaping
as
greedily
after
it
,
as
the
Camaeleon
doth
after
the
ayre
,
which
is
her
onely
nourishment
.
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*
Pulchrum
est
monstrari
digito
,
&
dicier
hic
est
,
Pers.
Sat.
1.
AElian
Var
hist.
lib.
9.
cap.
17.
They
count
it
a
goodly
matter
,
that
men
take
notice
of
them
,
and
point
at
them
for
their
gifts
;
yea
,
many
times
,
though
they
be
neuer
so
meane
that
doe
it
.
As
it
is
said
of
Demosthenes
,
that
he
was
filled
with
pride
,
when
he
heard
the
Water-bearers
whisper
something
in
his
commendation
,
as
he
passed
by
them
.
Now
,
he
that
is
thus
affected
,
can
neuer
be
sincere
in
the
execution
of
his
ministerie
.
For
he
will
measure
all
things
by
his
owne
estimation
and
credit
,
and
will
make
all
that
he
doth
,
yea
,
euen
the
doctrine
that
hee
deliuereth
,
to
serue
to
that
end
.
And
therefore
,
the
Apostle
commending
the
sinceritie
of
his
ministerie
to
the
Thessalonians
,
1.
Thes.
2.6
.
taketh
both
God
and
them
to
witnesse
,
that
he
neuer
sought
praise
of
men
,
neither
of
them
,
nor
of
others
:
insinuating
,
that
if
he
had
sought
praise
and
approbation
with
men
,
hee
could
not
haue
beene
sincere
.
For
as
Seneca
saith
well
:
Controuers.
lib.
5
He
that
seeketh
after
praise
,
is
desirous
to
haue
himselfe
approued
,
and
not
the
cause
which
he
handleth
;
whereupon
followeth
this
fault
,
that
he
omitteth
many
necessary
things
,
while
hee
laboureth
onely
to
make
a
faire
shew
.
And
hence
is
it
,
that
vaine-glorious
Ministers
,
are
not
the
same
men
in
their
preaching
,
when
they
haue
a
great
Auditory
,
as
when
they
preach
to
a
few
.
So
that
when
wee
see
such
a
man
,
Sen.
Epist.
29.
famous
in
the
estimation
of
the
people
,
applauded
and
commended
wheresoeuer
hee
commeth
,
wee
haue
cause
to
pitty
him
,
and
to
lament
his
estate
,
because
he
cannot
attayne
to
such
fauour
by
sincere
and
faithfull
dealing
.
I
doe
not
denie
,
but
a
man
may
lawfully
receiue
that
reuerent
estimation
,
that
is
due
to
vertue
and
good
deserts
.
For
it
is
the
commandement
of
God
,
that
they
that
are
inferiour
in
gifts
,
should
honor
those
whose
gifts
are
more
eminent
,
Exod.
20.12
.
And
it
is
agreeable
to
iustice
,
that
they
that
are
indued
with
more
excellent
gifts
of
God
,
and
doe
vse
them
to
the
benefit
of
others
,
should
in
thankefulnesse
receiue
some
recompence
.
Now
,
what
better
recompence
can
be
giuen
them
,
then
honor
and
due
respect
?
Besides
,
it
is
very
profitable
.
For
they
that
haue
gifts
in
any
measure
,
are
hereby
excited
and
stirred
vp
to
striue
to
a
greater
excellency
.
And
the
reuerence
that
is
done
vnto
them
,
doth
procure
them
authority
with
others
,
and
cause
them
to
be
had
in
higher
reputation
,
and
so
their
paines
and
diligence
doth
the
more
good
.
And
therefore
,
the
Apostle
doth
not
say
,
that
he
refused
that
reuerence
and
honor
that
was
giuen
to
him
and
his
Apostleship
,
Gal.
4.14
.
though
he
acknowledge
that
the
Galatians
receiued
him
as
an
Angell
of
God
,
yea
,
as
Christ
Iesus
:
but
onely
he
saith
,
he
affected
it
not
,
he
sought
not
after
it
ambitiously
,
as
too
many
doe
,
which
is
the
greatest
vanitie
in
the
world
.
2.
Cor.
10.18
.
For
,
as
he
,
that
prayseth
himselfe
,
is
not
allowed
(
as
the
Apostle
saith
)
so
neither
is
he
allowed
,
that
by
this
meanes
is
fondly
praised
of
men
,
but
hee
whom
the
Lord
prayseth
.
Vse
.
2
Secondly
,
it
serueth
to
admonish
euery
one
of
vs
,
to
labour
aboue
all
things
for
the
Lords
approbation
in
our
ministerie
,
that
we
may
be
Pastors
according
to
his
heart
,
Jer.
3.15
.
as
the
Lord
himselfe
saith
:
For
this
end
,
first
,
it
is
required
of
vs
,
that
we
be
faithfull
in
the
discharge
of
our
dueties
.
The
Apostle
exhorteth
earthly
seruants
,
Tit.
2.10
.
to
shew
all
good
faithfulnesse
vnto
their
bodily
Masters
.
Much
more
must
wee
bee
faithfull
,
that
are
Gods
Stewards
,
2.
Cor.
4.1.2
.
to
whom
he
hath
committed
the
dispensation
of
his
holy
mysteries
:
whereupon
,
faith
Luther
,
Let
euery
man
bee
faithfull
in
his
ministerie
.
Let
him
not
seeke
his
owne
glory
,
Let
him
not
rest
in
the
vaine
applause
of
the
foolish
multitude
:
but
let
this
be
his
greatest
care
,
that
he
may
performe
his
worke
well
,
that
is
,
that
hee
may
purely
preach
the
Gospell
.
But
our
faithfulnesse
must
especially
appeare
in
this
,
that
we
labour
to
gather
Disciples
vnto
Christ
.
We
may
not
be
like
those
false
Teachers
,
which
the
Apostle
speaketh
of
,
Act.
20.30
.
To
draw
Disciples
after
our selues
,
that
is
,
to
make
Sects
,
and
cause
men
to
giue
vp
their
names
to
vs
.
But
all
our
endeuour
must
bee
to
bring
men
to
Christ
.
And
this
is
insinuated
in
the
commission
which
Christ
giueth
his
Apostles
,
Mat.
28.19
.
and
in
them
the
Ministers
that
succeed
them
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
namely
,
To
goe
and
teach
all
Nations
:
where
the
word
signifieth
to
make
them
Disciples
.
As
all
the
gaine
of
earthly
seruants
doth
redound
vnto
their
Masters
,
and
not
to
themselues
:
so
the
soules
that
we
gaine
by
our
preaching
,
should
redound
vnto
God
.
And
therefore
,
Ioh.
1.19.20
.
when
the
Iewes
began
to
make
account
of
Iohn
Baptist
,
both
for
the
austeritie
of
his
life
,
and
for
the
excellency
of
his
preaching
,
and
the
rarenesse
of
his
baptisme
;
he
would
by
no
meanes
suffer
them
to
be
too
highly
conceited
of
him
,
Ioh.
26.27
.
but
laboureth
to
make
them
acknowledge
Christ
,
whom
hee
so
farre
preferred
before
himselfe
,
as
hee
confesseth
,
hee
was
not
worthy
to
vnloose
the
latchet
of
his
shoo
.
And
when
his
owne
Disciples
began
to
dote
of
him
more
then
was
fit
,
and
went
about
to
breed
some
emulation
in
him
against
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
because
he
also
began
to
baptize
,
Ioh.
3.26.28
30.
and
all
men
came
to
him
,
hee
telleth
them
in
plaine
termes
,
that
it
was
meet
they
should
doe
so
.
And
as
for
himselfe
,
he
had
told
them
that
he
was
onely
a
fore-runner
sent
before
him
;
Mat.
11.2
.
and
saith
he
,
He
must
increase
,
but
I
must
decrease
.
Yea
afterwards
,
hee
sendeth
them
also
to
Christ
,
that
they
might
know
him
to
be
the
only
true
Messias
,
and
so
also
become
followers
of
him
.
Secondly
,
we
must
in
all
our
ministerie
chiefly
ayme
at
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
saluation
of
the
people
,
committed
to
our
charge
.
It
is
the
generall
duety
of
all
Christians
,
in
all
their
actions
to
propound
the
glory
of
God
,
as
their
chiefe
and
principall
scope
.
1.
Cor.
10.31
.
Whatsoeuer
yee
doe
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
doe
all
to
the
glory
of
God
.
Much
more
should
Ministers
make
the
glory
of
God
the
principall
end
of
all
their
ministeriall
dueties
.
And
indeed
,
the
glory
of
all
our
actions
is
wholly
due
to
the
Lord
,
who
worketh
whatsoeuer
is
wrought
by
vs
.
We
are
but
instruments
in
the
Lords
hand
,
and
therefore
,
we
cannot
arrogate
any
thing
to
our selues
without
preiudice
to
him
.
Jsa.
10.15
.
Shall
the
axe
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
boast
it selfe
against
him
that
heweth
therewith
?
or
shall
the
Saw
exalt
it selfe
against
him
that
moueth
it
?
If
therfore
wee
see
any
good
effect
wrought
by
our
ministerie
,
let
vs
say
with
Dauid
,
Not
vnto
vs
,
O
Lord
,
not
vnto
vs
,
Psal.
115.1
.
but
vnto
thy
Name
giue
the
glory
.
And
for
the
saluation
of
the
people
,
the
Apostle
vseth
it
as
an
argument
to
perswade
Timotheus
,
to
be
diligent
and
constant
in
the
discharge
of
his
duety
.
1.
Tim.
4.16
.
Take
heede
vnto
thy selfe
,
saith
he
,
and
vnto
learning
;
continue
therein
:
for
in
doing
this
,
thou
shalt
saue
both
thy selfe
and
them
that
heare
thee
.
As
if
hee
should
haue
said
,
Calu.
in
locum
.
Let
them
that
are
desirous
of
vaine-glorie
,
please
themselues
with
their
owne
ambition
:
let
them
applaude
themselues
in
the
subtilties
of
their
wit
;
let
it
be
sufficient
for
thee
,
to
bend
thy
study
to
the
furtherance
of
thine
owne
and
the
peoples
saluation
.
Thus
if
we
set
our selues
to
bee
approued
vnto
God
,
the
Lord
that
knoweth
our
sinceritie
,
will
not
be
wanting
to
reward
vs
liberally
,
and
that
euen
in
this
life
,
1.
Pet.
4.14
.
making
the
Spirit
of
glorie
to
rest
vponvs
,
as
the
Apostle
Peter
calleth
it
.
To
which
purpose
Luther
hath
a
good
saying
:
If
a
mans
worke
bee
right
,
let
him
be
sure
that
hee
shall
neuer
want
glory
neither
with
God
,
nor
with
men
.
As
wee
see
by
experience
,
that
they
that
set
themselues
conscionably
to
performe
the
dueties
of
their
calling
,
the
Lord
doth
sooner
or
later
cause
them
to
bee
esteemed
and
had
in
reuerence
of
men
,
yea
many
times
of
such
as
are
enemies
to
the
Gospell
.
Sen.
Epist.
80.
The
Heathen
man
could
say
,
that
glory
is
the
shadow
of
vertue
,
which
will
accompany
men
whether
they
will
or
no.
But
as
the
shaddow
sometimes
goeth
before
the
bodie
,
and
sometimes
followeth
after
:
so
glory
is
sometimes
before
vs
,
and
presenteth
it selfe
to
our
view
;
sometimes
it
commeth
behinde
vs
,
and
is
the
greater
,
by
how
much
it
is
the
later
,
when
enuie
is
ceased
,
namely
after
our
death
.
But
without
all
question
,
howsoeuer
it
pleaseth
the
Lord
to
deale
with
vs
in
this
life
:
yet
at
the
great
day
of
Iudgement
,
When
the
chiefe
Shepheard
shall
appeare
,
1.
Pet.
5.4
.
we
shall
receiue
an
incorruptible
Crowne
of
glory
.
Then
our
Master
Christ
Iesus
,
when
hee
shall
come
to
call
vs
to
account
for
the
talents
and
gifts
which
he
hath
giuen
vs
,
and
shall
finde
that
wee
haue
imployed
them
to
the
glory
of
his
Name
,
and
the
good
of
his
Church
,
Math.
5.21
.
shall
say
vnto
vs
,
It
is
well
done
,
thou
good
and
faithfull
seruant
:
enter
into
thy
Masters
ioy
.
Last
of
all
,
here
is
also
an
admonition
for
all
the
hearers
of
the
Word
,
that
they
suffer
their
Ministers
to
performe
this
duetie
.
There
is
a
secret
corruption
in
most
men
,
they
would
haue
a
Minister
to
speake
to
their
humours
,
and
to
sooth
them
vp
in
whatsoeuer
they
do
.
If
they
say
the
Crow
is
white
,
Isay
30
10.
they
would
haue
the
Minister
to
say
so
too
.
They
cannot
indure
that
hee
should
prophesie
right
things
vnto
them
,
but
would
haue
him
to
speake
flattering
things
,
as
the
Prophet
saith
of
the
people
in
his
time
.
But
,
as
hath
beene
said
alreadie
,
The
Minister
is
the
seruant
of
Christ
,
to
whom
onely
he
ought
to
approoue
himselfe
,
and
of
whom
onely
hee
ought
to
labour
to
draw
men
to
bee
followers
,
and
therefore
,
he
must
administer
and
dispense
the
Word
indifferently
vnto
all
,
not
caring
whom
he
pleaseth
or
displeaseth
,
so
he
may
please
God
.
What
message
soeuer
the
Lord
putteth
into
his
mouth
,
how
harsh
soeuer
it
be
,
hee
must
deliuer
it
faithfully
,
though
all
the
world
be
offended
at
it
.
Ky
.
1.17
.
As
the
Lord
charged
the
Prophet
Ieremy
;
Speake
vnto
them
all
that
I
command
thee
,
be
not
afraid
of
their
faces
,
lest
I
destroy
thee
before
them
.
The
Minister
,
you
see
,
must
deale
faithfully
in
the
Lords
busmesse
,
euen
vpon
paine
of
his
high
displeasure
.
Num.
23.12
.
Balaam
that
false
prophet
could
say
,
Must
I
not
take
heede
to
speake
that
,
which
the
Lord
bath
put
into
my
mouth
?
Much
more
ought
a
godly
minister
to
be
carefull
that
way
,
that
though
hee
might
gaine
neuer
so
much
by
flattering
,
Numb.
22.18
.
yet
hee
must
not
goe
beyond
the
Word
of
the
Lord
,
to
doe
lesse
or
more
:
hee
must
not
giue
titles
to
men
,
nor
causelessely
commend
them
without
desert
,
lest
his
Maker
reproue
him
,
as
Iob
saith
,
Iob
32.22
.
Yea
the
Apostle
Paul
saith
,
Gal.
1.10
.
If
he
should
goe
about
to
please
men
,
hee
were
not
the
seruant
of
Christ
.
If
he
should
apply
his
doctrine
to
mens
humours
mours
and
affections
,
the
Lord
would
neuer
approue
him
.
And
therefore
all
this
being
so
,
you
must
giue
your
ministers
leaue
to
discharge
their
duties
in
all
sinceritie
,
and
not
bee
offended
,
though
at
Gods
Commandement
,
they
doe
somewhat
sharpely
reprooue
your
sinnes
.
For
as
the
Apostles
said
of
obedience
,
so
may
wee
say
in
this
case
:
Acts
4.19
.
Whether
it
bee
right
in
the
sight
of
God
,
to
please
you
rather
then
God
,
iudge
ye
.
A
Workeman
.
The
same
word
is
vsed
in
the
parable
of
the
Vineyard
,
Math.
20.1
.
and
there
is
translated
labourers
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
And
so
it
is
vsed
,
2.
Thes.
3.10
.
where
the
Apostle
commandeth
,
that
if
there
were
any
that
would
not
worke
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
hee
should
not
eate
.
From
whence
ariseth
this
next
instruction
:
Doct.
2
That
the
Calling
of
a
Minister
is
a
painefull
and
laborious
calling
,
and
he
that
would
approue
himselfe
and
his
Ministerie
vnto
God
,
hee
must
be
a
workeman
.
This
the
Apostle
confirmeth
in
many
other
places
.
Exhorting
the
Thessalonians
to
a
reuerent
and
due
estimation
of
their
Ministers
,
he
saith
,
Know
them
that
labour
among
you
,
&c.
1.
Thes.
5
12.
And
in
an
other
place
,
The
Elders
,
saith
he
,
that
rule
well
,
1.
Tim.
5.17
.
are
worthy
of
double
honour
;
especially
they
which
labour
in
the
Word
and
Doctrine
.
In
both
which
places
,
the
word
there
vsed
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
doth
signifie
to
labour
vnto
wearinesse
.
In
like
manner
,
exhorting
Timotheus
to
the
performance
of
his
duety
,
hee
bids
him
,
Watch
in
all
things
,
doe
the
worke
of
an
Euangelist
,
2.
Tim.
4.5
.
&c.
And
,
describing
the
office
of
a
faithfull
Minister
,
he
saith
,
If
any
man
desire
the
office
of
a
Bishop
,
1.
Tim.
3.1
.
he
desireth
a
worthy
worke
.
Wherevpon
S.
Augustine
saith
,
[
](A10740-e14000-b)(a)
(a)
Episcopatus
nomenest
operis
,
non
honoris
.
The
office
of
a
Bishop
is
a
name
of
labour
,
not
of
honor
:
that
a
man
may
know
that
he
is
no
Bishop
,
that
would
bear
rule
,
but
would
doe
no
good
.
According
to
that
speech
of
our
Sauiour
,
Math.
9.37
.
Surely
the
haruest
is
great
,
but
the
labourers
are
few
:
wherefore
pray
the
Lord
of
the
haruest
,
that
he
would
send
forth
labourers
into
his
haruest
.
De
ciu.
Dei
li.
19
c.
19.
De
vit.
&
morib.
Cleric
.
Serm.
1.
Where
the
same
word
is
vsed
that
is
in
this
place
.
Whereunto
agreeth
that
saying
of
S.
Augustine
,
that
the
office
of
a
Minister
is
rather
a
burden
then
an
honor
.
Declam
.
And
Bernard
saith
,
Great
is
the
place
of
Ministers
in
the
Kingdome
of
God
:
but
yet
there
is
no
small
labour
belonging
vnto
them
.
So
then
,
though
the
calling
of
a
Minister
bee
an
high
and
honourable
calling
,
yet
it
is
not
a
calling
of
ease
,
but
of
labour
.
And
though
the
worke
of
the
ministery
bee
a
worthy
and
an
excellent
worke
:
yet
it
is
a
worke
,
yea
and
that
a
painfull
worke
.
Now
the
worke
and
labour
of
a
Minister
consisteth
in
these
three
things
:
Quandoque
parum
nouit
,
nemo
docere
potest
.
First
,
in
priuate
studie
:
Secondly
,
in
frequent
prayer
:
Thirdly
,
in
diligent
preaching
of
Gods
Word
.
For
the
first
:
a
faithfull
Minister
must
labor
in
his
priuate
studie
,
that
he
may
bee
furnished
with
knowledge
,
for
the
better
discharge
of
his
dutie
.
Hee
must
first
learne
by
studie
,
before
hee
can
bee
fit
to
teach
others
.
For
no
man
can
teach
that
,
whereof
hee
is
ignorant
himselfe
.
The
Moone
and
the
Starres
first
receiue
light
themselues
from
the
Sun
,
before
they
giue
light
to
the
inferiour
creatures
.
So
must
the
Minister
first
be
inlightened
himselfe
with
the
knowledge
of
the
holy
Scriptures
,
before
he
can
instruct
others
in
the
same
.
No
man
(
saith
Gregory
)
presumeth
to
teach
any
Art
,
vnlesse
by
diligent
meditation
he
haue
first
learned
it
himselfe
.
But
the
regiment
of
soules
is
the
Art
of
all
Arts
,
For
this
cause
,
Isa.
6.
6
,
7.
the
Prophet
Isaiah
had
his
lips
touched
with
a
coale
from
the
Altar
,
before
his
commission
was
renued
to
preach
to
the
Iewes
.
Luke
24.45
.
And
our
Sauiour
Christ
first
opened
the
vnderstandings
of
his
Disciples
,
that
they
might
vnderstand
the
Scriptures
:
before
hee
would
send
them
forth
to
preach
the
Gospell
:
and
commanded
them
besides
to
tarrie
at
Ierusalem
,
Luke
49.
till
they
should
be
endued
with
power
from
an
high
.
To
teach
vs
,
that
howsoeuer
this
extraordinarie
and
immediate
inspiring
of
men
from
heauen
,
be
now
ceased
:
yet
by
ordinarie
studie
,
a
man
must
bee
furnished
with
knowledge
,
before
hee
can
bee
a
sufficient
teacher
and
instructer
of
others
.
And
this
doth
the
Prophet
require
of
euery
Priest
in
the
time
of
the
Law
.
Mal.
2.7
.
The
Priests
lippes
should
preserue
knowledge
,
and
they
should
seeke
the
law
at
his
mouth
:
for
he
is
the
messenger
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Wherevpon
saith
Gualter
,
Ministers
must
keepe
the
law
of
truth
,
and
preserue
the
knowledge
thereof
,
as
it
were
in
a
store-house
,
that
from
thence
they
may
bring
foorth
all
things
,
that
tend
to
the
edification
of
the
Church
.
1.
Tim
3.2
.
2.
Tim.
2.2
.
And
the
Apostle
likewise
requireth
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
that
they
be
apt
and
able
to
teach
others
?
Cyprian
,
ad
Pomp.
To
which
purpose
Cyprian
hath
a
good
saying
:
A
Minister
must
not
onely
teach
,
but
also
learne
himselfe
,
because
he
teacheth
better
that
learneth
euery
day
,
and
profiteth
,
in
learning
better
things
.
And
this
was
signified
in
the
mysticall
apparell
of
the
Priests
where
the
Lord
commanded
Moses
to
put
in
the
Brest-plate
of
iudgement
,
the
Vrim
and
the
Thummim
,
Exod.
28.30
.
which
shall
bee
vpon
Aarons
heart
.
Whereby
was
shaddowed
out
the
cleare
knowledge
of
heauenly
things
,
wherewith
the
Minister
should
be
ended
.
A
Minister
therefore
must
giue
himselfe
night
and
day
to
the
studie
of
Gods
Word
.
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(a)
Epist.
8.
Sencca
saith
of
himselfe
,
that
he
so
bent
and
settled
himselfe
to
the
study
of
morall
Philosophie
,
that
he
suffered
no
day
to
passe
from
him
in
idlenesse
,
but
applied
part
of
the
night
to
his
study
,
that
hee
did
not
giue
himselfe
to
sleepe
,
till
hee
was
ouercome
with
it
,
and
when
his
eyes
were
wearied
,
and
ready
to
fall
downe
with
watching
,
yet
still
he
kept
them
in
worke
.
And
it
is
reported
of
Aristotle
,
that
while
he
was
searching
out
the
nature
of
things
,
he
neuer
vsed
to
sleepe
,
but
with
an
iron
ball
in
his
hand
,
hanging
ouer
a
brasen
panne
,
that
when
it
should
fall
out
of
his
hand
,
the
sound
of
it
might
awake
him
.
If
these
men
were
thus
painefull
,
in
labouring
to
attaine
to
the
knowledge
of
Philosophy
,
for
their
owne
priuate
contemplation
:
how
much
more
painefull
should
a
Minister
be
in
the
study
of
the
Word
of
God
,
whereby
hee
may
be
enabled
to
teach
others
?
‛
Dauid
maketh
it
the
propertie
of
euery
godly
man
,
to
meditate
in
the
Law
of
the
Lord
night
and
day
:
Psal.
1.2
.
And
our
Sauiour
Christ
commandeth
all
Christians
in
generall
,
Iohn
5.39
.
to
search
the
Scriptures
.
Much
more
is
a
Minister
bound
to
doe
it
,
because
the
chiefe
end
of
his
calling
,
is
not
onely
the
priuate
informing
of
himselfe
in
knowledge
of
God
and
his
will
,
but
also
and
chiefly
,
the
gathering
together
of
the
Saints
,
Ephes.
4.11.12
.
and
the
edification
of
the
body
of
Christ
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
:
For
this
cause
,
our
Sauiour
compareth
a
Minister
,
Matth.
13.52
.
whom
hee
calleth
a
Scribe
,
which
is
taught
vnto
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
vnto
an
house-holder
,
which
bringeth
forth
out
of
his
treasury
,
things
both
new
&
old
.
His
heart
should
be
euen
a
store-house
of
knowledge
,
and
gracious
instructions
,
he
should
neuer
be
vnprepared
,
vpon
euery
occasion
,
Act.
13.15
.
to
vse
some
word
of
exhortation
to
the
people
.
This
may
serue
,
first
,
to
reprooue
two
sorts
of
Ministers
.
First
,
such
as
take
vpon
them
to
be
teachers
of
others
,
and
yet
stand
in
need
themselues
to
be
taught
the
first
principles
of
the
word
of
God
.
Heb.
5.12
.
As
there
be
many
that
enter
into
the
Ministerie
for
maintenance
sake
,
making
that
high
calling
their
last
refuge
,
who
for
want
of
knowledge
,
haue
no
measure
of
abilitie
to
discharge
their
dutie
.
These
expose
themselues
and
their
calling
vnto
contempt
and
reproch
.
For
as
one
saith
well
:
What
can
the
multitude
admire
in
them
,
if
they
see
no
more
in
them
,
nay
peraduenture
,
not
so
much
as
they
find
in
themselues
?
Pet.
Mart.
de
dignit
.
minist.
Ex
Mal.
2.7
.
A
Minister
should
bee
both
able
and
willing
to
answere
to
all
things
which
belong
to
saluation
.
Let
them
therefore
discharge
this
dutie
,
let
them
be
interpreters
of
the
will
of
God
,
or
else
let
them
cease
to
be
Ministers
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Lords
messengers
.
Bern.
Declam
.
And
therefore
Bernard
hath
a
good
saying
:
How
can
ignorance
excuse
him
,
that
professeth
himselfe
to
be
an
instructer
of
the
vnlearned
,
and
a
teacher
of
them
that
lacke
discretion
?
For
what
danger
is
there
,
when
as
the
shepheard
findeth
no
pasture
,
the
guide
is
ignorant
of
the
way
,
and
the
messenger
knoweth
not
the
will
of
his
master
?
Secondly
,
they
also
are
here
reproued
,
that
haue
knowledge
and
other
good
gists
,
but
doe
not
stirre
them
vp
,
2.
Tim.
1.6
.
as
the
Apostle
exhorteth
Timotheus
,
that
is
,
doe
not
by
painefull
study
and
continuall
vse
,
labour
to
increase
them
,
but
rather
suffer
them
to
gather
rust
,
and
become
vnprofitable
.
Hence
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
either
they
preach
very
seldome
;
or
when
they
doe
preach
,
they
make
such
cold
collations
,
and
bring
forth
such
flashy
and
vnsauory
stuffe
,
as
can
neuer
profit
nor
benefit
their
happines
.
It
was
said
of
the
Heathen
Orator
,
Cael.
Rhodig
.
lib.
5.
cap.
13.
that
his
orations
did
smell
of
the
candle
.
Much
more
should
a
Christian
minister
desire
to
haue
his
Sermons
which
he
deliuereth
to
Gods
people
,
to
smell
of
study
,
and
of
painefull
diligence
.
For
if
there
be
a
curse
denounced
against
him
,
Ier.
48.10
.
that
doth
the
worke
of
the
Lord
negligently
:
much
more
shall
he
be
accursed
,
that
shal
be
negligent
and
carelesse
in
the
performance
of
this
great
and
waightie
worke
of
the
Ministerie
.
Secondly
,
this
may
serue
to
excite
and
stirre
vs
vp
to
diligence
and
painefulnesse
in
our
studies
.
Wee
should
remember
that
charge
which
the
Apostle
giueth
to
Timotheus
,
as
if
it
had
beene
giuen
to
euery
one
of
our selues
:
Gine
attendance
toreading
,
to
exhortation
,
and
to
doctrine
:
that
is
,
1.
Tim.
4.13
.
we
must
so
apply
our selues
to
the
reading
and
studying
of
the
Scriptures
,
as
out
of
them
we
may
be
able
to
gather
exhortation
&
doctrine
,
for
the
instruction
and
edification
of
Gods
people
.
For
as
Caluin
saith
vpon
that
place
,
What
shall
Pastors
teach
others
,
if
they
bee
not
diligent
in
learning
themselues
?
Againe
,
the
Apostle
saith
,
Despise
not
the
gift
that
is
in
thee
,
&c.
vers
.
14.
God
would
not
haue
the
Talents
which
he
hath
giuen
vs
,
to
perish
,
or
to
be
hid
vnprofitably
vnder
the
ground
.
A
gaine
,
Vers.
15.
These
things
exercise
,
and
giue
thy selfe
vnto
them
,
that
it
may
be
seene
how
thou
profitest
,
&c.
This
should
be
the
continuall
practice
,
this
should
bee
the
daily
occupation
,
this
should
bee
the
chiefe
businesse
of
euery
godly
Minister
,
to
labour
by
diligent
studie
,
to
increase
the
gift
which
God
hath
giuen
him
.
For
this
cause
,
he
must
carefully
auoide
euery
thing
that
might
hinder
him
from
the
performance
of
this
duty
.
And
first
of
all
,
he
must
take
heed
,
that
he
be
not
too
much
giuen
to
the
world
:
2.
Tim.
2.4
.
No
man
that
warreth
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
entangleth
himselfe
with
the
affaires
of
this
life
.
If
the
Apostles
would
not
be
troubled
with
seruing
of
tables
,
Act.
6.2
,
3
,
4.
that
is
,
with
care
for
the
poore
,
which
yet
was
a
godly
and
religious
worke
:
but
appointed
others
to
that
businesse
,
that
they
might
more
freely
giue
themselues
continually
to
prayer
,
and
to
the
ministration
of
the
word
:
much
lesse
should
a
Minister
be
encumbred
with
worldly
businesse
.
For
if
the
buying
of
farmes
,
Luke
14.18
,
19.
and
prouing
of
oxen
,
and
the
vse
of
Marchandise
doe
hinder
men
from
hearing
the
Word
:
much
more
will
they
hinder
a
minister
from
studying
of
the
Word
.
Our
Sautour
Christ
would
haue
a
minister
to
bee
taught
to
the
Kangdome
of
God
,
Matth.
13.52
.
as
hath
been
said
.
That
must
be
his
scope
which
he
must
chiefly
aime
at
.
Let
other
men
be
skilfull
in
buying
of
cattell
,
or
in
ordering
of
farmes
,
the
chiefe
skill
of
a
Minister
should
bee
this
,
that
hee
bee
taught
to
the
Kingdome
of
God
.
And
as
wee
haue
heard
,
the
Apostle
commandeth
Timotheus
:
1.
Tim.
4.15
.
These
things
exercise
,
and
giue
thy selfe
to
them
.
The
exercise
of
a
Minister
must
not
bee
in
worldly
businesse
,
but
in
the
study
of
the
Word
of
God
.
And
indeed
the
office
of
a
Minister
requireth
the
whole
man
,
and
hee
performeth
no
small
matter
,
that
is
any
way
able
to
discharge
the
same
.
For
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
2.
Cor.
2.16
.
De
confid.
lib.
4.
Who
is
sufficient
for
these
things
?
If
an
ordinarie
seruant
,
saith
Bernard
to
Eugensus
the
Pope
,
bee
not
able
both
to
keep
the
cattel
,
and
also
to
waite
at
the
table
;
how
canst
thou
by
thy selfe
attend
all
these
things
?
And
indeed
,
the
care
of
worldly
things
quencheth
the
zeale
of
a
Minister
,
that
hee
cannot
so
feruently
attend
his
study
as
hee
ought
.
For
as
a
riuer
,
that
is
diuided
into
many
streames
,
hath
a
great
deale
lesse
force
,
then
when
it
runneth
in
one
current
:
so
the
minde
of
a
Minister
distracted
with
worldly
businesse
,
cannot
bee
carried
to
the
discharge
of
his
dutie
,
with
that
liuelyhood
and
chearefulnesse
that
is
requisite
.
If
a
Brooke
,
saith
Bernard
,
can
run
out
into
the
field
,
Bern.
vbi
supra
.
and
not
hurt
the
Corne
,
then
mayst
thou
meddle
with
these
things
without
wounding
thy
mind
.
And
hereof
we
haue
too
much
experience
:
For
euen
as
many
seruants
,
hauing
got
some
competent
stocke
vnder
a
good
master
,
doe
attend
so
much
vpon
the
increase
of
it
,
as
they
neglect
the
old
care
of
their
master
:
so
many
Ministers
,
hauing
by
Gods
blessing
enriched
themselues
,
become
altogether
carelesse
of
their
dutie
.
And
this
is
it
,
that
giueth
occasion
to
many
prophane
persons
to
thinke
,
that
it
is
best
for
Ministers
to
be
kept
vnder
by
liuing
in
want
,
because
many
times
it
is
seene
,
that
when
they
grow
rich
,
they
waxe
idle
.
Secondly
,
a
Minister
must
take
heede
,
that
he
giue
not
himselfe
to
keepe
company
in
Ale-houses
and
Tauernes
,
and
such
like
lewd
and
vngodly
places
.
I
would
to
God
there
were
not
many
,
Iuuat
.
impallescere
charlis
,
sed
pictis
.
that
are
a
great
deale
oftner
in
the
Ale-house
,
then
in
their
Studies
;
and
that
handle
a
paire
of
Chards
more
,
then
they
doe
the
Booke
of
God
.
And
I
would
this
were
only
the
fault
of
some
base
persons
in
the
Ministerie
,
&
that
there
were
not
some
,
who
otherwise
are
of
excellent
gifts
,
and
haue
a
good
dexteritie
in
preaching
,
are
as
frequent
in
Ale-houses
,
as
the
greatest
swaggerers
in
the
Country
.
This
is
the
greatest
disgrace
of
the
Ministerie
that
can
be
.
And
it
were
to
be
wished
,
that
they
that
haue
authoritie
,
would
take
notice
of
it
,
and
set
themselues
to
redresse
it
.
It
drowneth
and
vtterly
quencheth
the
gifts
of
God
in
men
,
and
maketh
them
become
altogether
vnprofitable
.
And
this
the
Heathen
men
did
know
,
and
therefore
were
carefull
to
preuent
it
.
Cael.
Rhodig
.
lib.
9.
cap.
12.
The
Priests
of
Egypt
were
forbidden
to
drinke
of
the
water
of
Nilus
,
because
it
would
make
them
fat
and
grosse
.
And
doe
we
not
see
the
same
effect
in
those
Ministers
that
frequent
the
Ale-house
,
that
they
heaue
and
puffe
vp
their
bodies
in
a
deformed
manner
?
which
doubtlesse
cannot
but
dull
the
spirits
:
According
to
the
old
prouerb
:
A
fat
belly
seldome
begets
a
fine
wit
.
Let
all
Ministers
therefore
be
carefull
to
auoide
these
prophane
and
scandalous
courses
.
Let
them
bee
as
loth
to
come
into
an
Ale-house
,
as
into
a
Pest-house
:
and
let
them
sequester
and
retire
themselues
into
their
Studies
,
that
so
they
may
bee
furnished
with
knowledge
,
and
may
discharge
their
duties
more
profitably
to
others
,
and
more
comfortably
to
themselues
.
The
second
thing
,
wherein
the
labour
and
worke
of
a
Minister
consisteth
,
is
in
feruent
and
ear̄nest
prayer
to
God
for
his
people
.
Deut.
9.25.26
.
Thus
did
Moses
pray
earnestly
to
God
for
the
people
of
Israel
,
to
pacifie
his
wrath
,
which
by
their
sinnes
they
had
prouoked
.
1.
Sam.
12.23
.
Thus
did
Samuel
promise
,
neuer
to
giue
ouer
this
dutie
for
his
people
:
God
forbid
,
saith
hee
,
that
I
should
sinne
against
the
Lord
,
and
cease
praying
for
you
.
Where
wee
see
,
that
it
is
a
grieuous
sinne
for
a
Minister
to
neglect
this
dutie
.
And
the
Apostle
PAVI
in
all
his
Epistles
,
Ephes.
1.6
.
&
3.14
.
Col.
1.9
.
&c.
maketh
mention
of
his
prayers
,
which
without
ceasing
,
hee
conceiued
in
the
behalfe
of
the
people
to
whom
hee
writeth
.
And
great
reason
there
is
,
why
a
Minister
should
performe
this
worke
.
For
as
the
Husbandman
desireth
two
things
of
the
Lord
,
one
that
hee
may
haue
a
seasonable
time
to
sowe
his
seede
;
another
,
that
when
it
is
sowne
,
it
may
bee
watred
with
the
Deaw
,
and
Shewres
of
Heauen
,
that
it
may
grow
and
increase
:
so
should
a
Minister
before
his
preaching
,
pray
to
God
,
that
first
,
the
Word
of
God
may
bee
aptly
conceiued
,
and
then
rightly
deliuered
by
him
,
and
well
sowne
in
the
hearts
of
his
hearers
.
And
after
his
preaching
,
hee
must
pray
for
a
blessing
vpon
it
,
that
it
may
take
roote
downeward
,
and
beare
fruite
vpward
.
Hee
must
,
as
Luther
saith
well
,
commend
to
God
,
both
his
owne
tongue
and
the
hearts
of
his
hearers
.
The
neglect
of
this
dutie
is
the
cause
,
why
many
mens
Ministerie
is
so
vnprofitable
.
For
while
they
seeke
to
vent
their
owne
gift
onely
,
and
not
to
glorifie
God
,
they
are
both
themselues
more
shallow
in
the
vnderstanding
of
Gods
will
,
and
also
their
Ministerie
hath
not
that
blessing
,
which
otherwise
it
might
.
But
I
will
not
prosecute
this
point
any
further
.
The
last
and
greatest
worke
of
a
Minister
,
consisteth
in
painefull
and
diligent
preaching
.
The
Apostle
PAVL
imposeth
this
vpon
Timotheus
with
a
great
and
waightie
charge
.
I
charge
thee
before
God
,
saith
hee
,
2.
Tim.
4.1.2
.
Gorran
in
locum
illum
.
and
before
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
which
shall
iudge
the
quicke
and
dead
at
his
appearing
,
and
in
has
Kingdome
,
Preach
the
Word
;
bee
instant
in
season
,
and
out
of
season
,
&c.
That
is
,
Preach
instantly
,
and
diligently
:
in
season
,
in
respect
of
them
that
are
pleased
with
the
Word
:
and
out
of
season
,
in
regard
of
them
that
are
displeased
with
it
,
and
to
whom
it
is
a
burden
.
And
though
in
respect
of
them
,
thou
mayest
seeme
vnseasonable
;
yet
thou
shalt
deale
seasonably
.
Or
as
Caluin
expoundeth
it
:
This
importunitie
may
bee
referred
both
to
the
Pastor
,
and
to
the
people
.
To
the
Pastor
,
that
hee
doe
not
onely
at
his
owne
houres
,
as
may
be
conuenient
for
himselfe
,
apply
the
office
of
teaching
,
but
sparing
no
labour
nor
trouble
,
he
must
euen
enforce
himselfe
vnto
it
.
In
respect
of
the
people
,
this
diligence
is
vnseasonable
,
whilest
they
that
are
dull
and
heauie
,
are
stirred
vp
and
excited
;
and
they
that
are
readie
to
goe
out
of
the
way
,
are
stayed
by
strong
hand
.
Or
as
Aretius
obserueth
:
Preach
the
Word
at
all
times
.
In
season
:
That
is
,
when
occasion
doth
offer
it selfe
.
Out
of
season
,
when
,
in
the
iudgement
of
the
flesh
,
it
may
seeme
inconuenient
,
in
respect
of
present
danger
.
This
is
the
charge
imposed
vpon
euerie
Minister
.
And
as
all
professions
and
trades
are
knowne
by
their
proper
workes
:
so
the
proper
worke
of
a
Minister
,
is
to
preach
the
Word
.
And
therefore
they
are
called
Pastors
and
Teachers
;
because
by
preaching
,
Ephes.
4.11
.
they
should
feede
and
teach
the
people
.
And
this
they
are
bound
to
doe
,
euen
by
the
necessitie
of
their
calling
.
As
the
Apostle
saith
,
1.
Cor.
9.16
.
Necessitie
is
laid
vpon
me
,
and
woe
is
vnto
me
,
if
I
preach
not
the
Gospell
.
Yea
,
they
must
giue
account
to
God
,
for
all
the
people
committed
to
their
charge
.
So
saith
the
Apostle
:
They
watch
for
your
soules
,
as
they
that
must
giue
account
.
Heb.
13.17
.
And
this
the
Lord
told
the
Prophet
EZECHIEL
:
O
sonne
of
man
,
I
haue
made
thee
a
watch-man
to
the
house
of
Israel
,
Ezech
33.7
,
8.
&c.
When
I
shall
say
to
the
wicked
,
O
wicked
man
,
thou
shalt
die
the
death
:
if
thou
doest
not
speake
and
admonish
the
wicked
of
his
way
;
that
wicked
man
shall
die
for
his
iniquitie
,
but
his
bloud
will
I
require
at
thine
hand
.
If
the
case
be
thus
,
that
a
Minister
stand
charged
with
euery
soule
that
belongeth
vnto
him
,
so
as
if
any
miscarry
through
his
negligence
,
his
life
must
goe
for
theirs
,
then
it
standeth
him
in
hand
,
to
look
carefully
to
the
discharge
of
his
dutie
.
Again
,
the
loue
that
we
owe
to
Christ
Iesus
,
ought
to
moue
vs
hereunto
.
And
therfore
,
when
our
Sauier
restored
Peter
againe
to
his
pastorall
charge
,
after
his
former
deniall
:
he
vseth
this
as
an
argument
to
perswade
him
to
diligence
therein
.
Which
he
repeateth
three
seuerall
times
.
John
21.15
,
16
,
17.
SIMON
,
the
sonne
of
Iona
,
louest
thou
me
more
then
these
?
then
feede
my
lambs
,
feede
my
sheepe
.
2.
Cor.
5.14
.
And
the
Apostle
Paul
professeth
,
that
the
loue
of
Christ
constrained
him
to
take
such
paines
as
he
did
.
Last
of
al
,
the
loue
of
our
people
should
preuaile
with
vs
,
to
vse
al
meanes
possible
to
further
their
saluation
.
As
the
Apostle
hath
giuen
vs
a
notable
example
in
his
owne
practice
:
Rom.
10.1
.
Phil.
1.8
.
Brethren
,
saith
he
,
mine
hearts
desire
and
prayer
to
God
for
Israel
is
,
that
they
might
be
saued
.
And
in
another
place
,
God
is
my
record
,
how
I
long
after
you
all
from
the
very
heart
roote
in
Iesus
Christ
.
2.
Cor.
12.15
.
&
And
againe
,
I
will
most
gladly
bestow
,
and
will
be
bestowed
for
your
soules
.
And
if
this
affection
be
in
a
man
,
it
will
cause
him
to
omit
no
dutie
,
11.2
.
that
he
may
present
his
people
a
pure
virgine
to
Christ
.
And
the
rather
,
because
hee
knoweth
,
that
Christ
Iesus
hath
redeemed
them
with
no
lesse
price
then
with
his
owne
bloud
.
Act.
20.28
.
And
therefore
,
as
they
are
most
deare
and
precious
vnto
Christ
:
so
should
they
also
bee
vnto
the
Minister
of
Christ
.
This
then
is
the
maine
dutie
of
a
Minister
,
wherein
he
is
to
be
most
frequent
.
As
that
Reuerend
Father
,
Bishop
Iewel
,
doth
earnestly
vrge
it
in
one
of
his
Sermons
.
This
is
our
office
,
In
1.
Pet.
4.11
.
saith
he
,
this
we
take
vpon
vs
,
this
we
professe
,
and
except
we
doe
this
,
we
doe
nothing
.
It
is
not
enough
for
vs
,
to
know
I
cannot
tell
whatlearning
.
The
Deuils
peraduenture
know
more
then
any
of
vs
all
.
It
belongeth
to
a
Pastor
,
not
so
much
to
haue
learned
many
things
,
as
to
haue
taught
much
.
Let
vs
bee
ashamed
,
that
euen
the
meanest
and
basest
men
,
as
Coblers
and
Porters
do
that
that
belongeth
to
them
,
and
we
that
ought
to
giue
light
to
al
others
,
are
idle
and
doe
nothing
.
But
it
will
be
obiected
:
Is
not
distinct
and
plaine
reading
of
the
Scriptures
sufficient
?
I
answere
,
that
reading
is
very
necessarie
,
and
of
great
vse
,
both
to
acquaint
the
people
with
the
phrase
of
the
Scripture
,
and
course
of
the
storie
;
and
also
to
prepare
them
,
and
fit
them
the
better
to
the
hearing
of
Sermons
:
and
therefore
,
God
forbid
,
that
any
man
should
derogate
from
it
.
But
yet
I
must
say
withall
,
that
in
an
ordinarie
time
,
reading
is
not
sufficient
to
bring
the
people
to
saluation
without
preaching
.
And
this
the
Apostle
prooueth
plaincly
,
2.
Tim.
3.16
,
17.
and
4.1
,
2.
where
hee
saith
,
that
the
whole
Scripture
is
giuen
by
inspiration
of
God
,
and
is
profitable
to
teach
,
to
improoue
,
to
correct
,
and
to
instruct
in
righteousues
,
that
the
man
of
Godmay
be
absolute
,
being
made
perfect
vnto
all
good
workes
.
And
then
immediately
he
addeth
that
charge
which
we
heard
before
:
I
charge
thee
therefore
,
〈◊〉
preach
the
Word
.
Whereupon
Caluin
giueth
this
note
:
The
inference
that
the
Apostle
maketh
,
is
diligently
to
be
obserued
,
because
he
doth
plainely
ioyne
the
Scriptures
with
preaching
.
For
hauing
intreated
of
the
profit
of
the
Scriptures
,
he
doth
not
onely
inferre
,
that
all
men
must
therfore
read
them
,
but
that
teachers
must
administer
the
same
.
1.
Tim.
4.13
.
And
the
Apostle
commandeth
Timotheus
to
giue
attendance
not
to
reading
onely
,
but
also
to
exhortation
and
doctrine
.
And
the
Apostle
Peter
hauing
taught
vs
,
1.
Pet.
1.23
,
25.
that
the
Word
of
God
is
that
immortall
seede
of
our
new
birth
:
he
addeth
,
and
this
is
the
Word
which
is
preached
among
you
.
Plainely
giuing
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
for
the
effecting
of
this
blessed
work
of
regeneration
,
it
is
necessarie
that
the
Word
of
God
be
preached
.
And
therefore
,
this
was
obserued
in
the
Church
of
the
Iewes
from
time
to
time
.
In
the
time
of
Nehemiab
,
before
the
comming
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
it
is
said
of
Ezra
,
Nebem
.
3.4
,
5
,
8.
that
hee
stood
vpon
a
Pulpit
of
wood
,
which
hee
had
made
for
the
preaching
,
and
being
aboue
all
the
people
,
hee
opened
the
booke
of
the
Law
before
them
,
and
hee
and
his
assistants
read
in
it
distinctly
,
and
gaue
the
sense
,
and
caused
them
to
vnderstand
the
reading
.
What
can
be
spoken
more
plainely
then
this
?
It
is
euident
then
,
that
as
reading
was
by
no
meanes
excluded
,
so
it
was
neuer
vsed
alone
in
the
Church
,
but
was
ioyned
with
preaching
.
And
this
our
Sauiour
Christ
practised
,
Luke
4.16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
21.
who
comming
to
Nazaret
,
and
entring
into
the
Synagogue
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
he
stood
vp
to
reade
;
and
hauing
read
a
portion
of
Scripture
,
he
closed
the
booke
,
and
sate
downe
,
and
preached
vnto
them
,
out
of
that
which
hee
had
read
.
Act.
15.21
.
Onus
ipsis
Angelis
formidandum
.
And
the
Apostle
IAMES
affirmeth
,
that
Moses
was
not
onely
read
in
their
synagogues
in
euerie
citie
,
but
also
preached
euery
Sabbath
day
.
Furthermore
,
the
worke
of
a
Minister
is
a
worke
of
great
difficultie
.
Bernard
calleth
it
a
burden
dreadfull
to
the
very
Angels
.
And
Caluin
saith
,
it
is
a
businesse
of
rare
and
excellent
vertue
,
farre
aboue
the
abilitie
of
man
.
Yea
,
the
Apostle
PAVL
himselfe
,
though
he
were
extraordinarily
furnished
with
gifts
from
heauen
;
yet
considering
the
waightinesse
of
the
dutie
,
hee
cryeth
out
,
Who
is
sufficient
for
these
things
?
2.
Cor.
2.16
.
And
where
the
Apostle
calleth
the
worke
of
a
Bishop
,
a
worthy
worke
:
1.
Tim.
3.1
.
Caluin
vpon
that
place
obserueth
well
,
that
hee
putteth
vs
in
minde
,
that
it
is
no
common
or
ordinarie
worke
:
For
,
saith
he
,
when
hee
calleth
it
a
worthy
worke
,
hee
alludeth
to
that
old
prouerbe
,
so
often
repeated
of
PLATO
,
that
excellent
things
are
hard
.
And
so
concludeth
,
that
it
is
a
laborious
and
a
difficult
.
charge
.
Now
I
hope
it
will
easily
bee
granted
,
that
there
can
be
no
such
difficulty
in
the
bare
reading
of
the
Word
.
But
for
further
euidence
of
this
point
,
let
vs
see
a
little
wherein
this
difficultie
consisteth
.
First
then
,
the
very
framing
and
compiling
of
a
Sermon
,
is
a
matter
of
no
small
labour
.
It
requireth
great
skill
,
for
a
man
to
draw
out
of
the
bottomlesse
Ocean
of
the
holy
Scriptures
,
such
instructions
as
may
serue
to
the
edification
of
the
hearers
;
then
to
dispose
them
in
an
apt
and
fit
methode
;
and
last
of
all
,
to
vtter
and
deliuer
the
same
in
such
manner
,
as
the
people
may
vnderstand
them
,
wee
may
more
truely
say
of
this
,
then
the
Heathen
Orator
said
of
his
facultie
in
pleading
;
It
is
a
greater
matter
then
men
imaginc
.
Againe
,
that
which
the
Minister
must
labour
to
effect
and
performe
by
his
Ministery
,
doth
plainely
prooue
how
hard
and
difficult
a
thing
it
is
.
The
Apostle
deseribing
the
properties
of
a
good
Minister
,
Tit.
1.9
.
he
saith
,
De
doct.
Chr.
lib.
4.
he
must
bee
able
both
to
exhort
with
wholesome
doctrine
,
and
to
improoue
them
that
say
against
it
.
Whereunto
agreeth
that
speech
of
S.
Augustine
,
where
he
calleth
a
Minister
,
a
maintainer
of
the
truth
,
and
a
subduer
of
falshood
,
a
defender
of
the
right
faith
,
and
a
vanquisher
of
errour
.
And
Bernard
,
De
consider
.
lib.
3.
writing
to
Eugenius
,
telleth
him
,
that
it
is
his
dutie
to
do
his
vttermost
endeauour
,
that
the
vnbeleeuers
may
bee
conuerted
to
the
faith
,
that
they
that
are
conuerted
,
may
not
bee
turned
away
,
that
they
that
are
turned
away
,
may
returne
againe
,
that
they
that
are
peruerted
,
may
be
disposed
to
vertue
and
honesty
,
and
that
they
that
are
subuerted
,
may
bee
called
againe
to
the
truth
.
Now
hee
that
shall
goe
about
to
doe
any
of
these
things
,
shall
finde
to
bee
workes
of
greater
difficultie
,
then
can
be
effected
by
bare
reading
.
Last
of
al
,
if
reading
were
sufficient
,
and
if
there
were
no
more
required
in
a
Minister
,
to
what
purpose
did
our
religious
and
deuoute
forefathers
found
and
erect
so
many
famous
Vniuersities
,
to
be
nurseries
of
learning
?
what
vse
is
there
of
the
knowledge
of
arts
and
tongues
,
which
cannot
be
attained
without
great
paines
and
industrie
?
and
to
what
end
serue
the
learned
writings
of
so
many
worthy
ancient
fathers
?
A
man
without
any
of
these
helpes
,
may
be
sufficiently
furnished
,
Jsa.
50.4
.
and
inabled
to
reade
the
Word
.
He
needeth
not
the
tongue
of
the
learned
(
which
yet
is
requisite
in
him
,
that
would
know
to
minister
a
word
in
time
to
him
that
is
wearie
:
that
is
,
would
comfort
an
afflicted
conscience
,
which
Luther
saith
,
is
harder
to
do
,
then
to
raise
the
dead
)
if
bare
reading
will
serue
the
turne
.
To
conclude
therefore
,
let
vs
acknowledge
,
that
the
Word
preached
and
applied
to
the
conscience
,
is
that
ordinance
of
God
,
which
he
hath
sanctified
for
the
conuersion
and
saluation
of
men
.
As
the
Apostle
saith
:
It
pleased
God
by
the
foolishnesse
of
preaching
(
as
profane
men
esteeme
of
it
)
to
saue
them
that
beleeue
,
1.
Cor.
1.21
.
And
yet
more
plainely
,
Rom.
10.
14
,
15.
How
shall
they
call
on
him
,
in
whom
they
haue
not
beleeued
?
and
how
shall
they
beleeue
in
him
,
of
whom
they
haue
not
heard
?
and
how
shall
they
heare
without
a
Preacher
?
And
how
shall
they
preach
,
except
they
be
sent
?
The
vse
of
this
,
is
first
for
vs
that
be
Ministers
.
Secondly
,
for
the
people
.
For
vs
that
be
Ministers
:
it
serueth
first
for
the
reproofe
of
two
sorts
of
Ministers
.
First
,
of
such
as
are
altogether
vnlearned
,
and
cannot
at
all
performe
this
dutie
;
which
occupie
a
roome
in
the
Church
,
but
haue
no
abilitie
at
all
to
teach
the
people
committed
to
their
charge
.
These
are
such
as
Chrysostome
speaketh
of
,
saying
,
There
are
many
Priests
,
and
there
are
few
Priests
:
many
in
name
,
few
in
deed
.
They
are
like
that
foolish
Rhetorician
,
which
Tully
makes
mōtion
of
,
that
made
his
scholars
a
great
deale
more
sottish
,
then
when
he
first
tooke
them
:
Where
they
could
learne
nothing
but
ignorance
of
learning
.
And
so
God
knoweth
,
a
number
of
Gods
people
,
liuing
vnder
such
vnlearned
Ministers
,
2.
Tim.
3.17
.
are
euer
learning
,
and
can
neuer
come
to
any
knowledge
of
the
truth
:
as
the
Apostle
saith
in
another
case
.
I
would
all
such
Ministers
would
regard
that
which
B.
lewel
speaketh
to
this
purpose
:
Whosoeuer
,
In
his
exposition
vpon
2.
Thes.
3.7
.
saith
he
,
asketh
the
pay
of
a
souldier
,
must
buckle
his
armour
and
goe
to
warfare
:
he
that
would
drinke
the
wine
,
must
plant
the
Grape
:
hee
that
desireth
the
milke
,
must
feede
the
flocke
:
he
that
will
not
be
muzled
,
must
thresh
out
the
Corne
:
he
that
reapeth
carnall
things
,
must
sow
spirituall
things
:
he
that
requireth
the
bread
of
the
earth
,
must
giue
the
bread
of
heauen
:
hee
that
would
liue
of
the
sacrifice
,
must
offer
the
sacrifice
:
hee
that
would
liue
of
the
Altar
,
must
waite
at
the
Altar
:
he
that
would
liue
of
the
Gospell
,
must
preach
the
Gospell
.
Hee
that
doth
none
of
all
these
,
I
can
make
no
account
of
him
,
he
is
not
within
Pauls
reckoning
.
The
workeman
is
worthy
of
his
wages
:
but
what
right
hath
hee
to
the
hire
,
that
is
not
a
workeman
?
Thus
farre
Iewel
.
And
no
doubt
,
that
which
the
Apostle
saith
of
bodily
labour
,
is
true
also
in
this
case
:
2.
Thes.
3.10.18
.
He
that
will
not
worke
,
should
not
eate
.
Who
would
haue
a
man
to
bee
a
Captaine
in
warre
,
that
is
not
expert
in
warfare
?
or
to
practise
Phisick
or
Surgerie
,
that
is
not
skilfull
in
that
profession
?
The
Minister
is
a
Captaine
,
and
a
guide
of
Gods
people
,
a
Phisicion
of
their
soules
,
and
therefore
,
there
is
great
reason
that
he
should
be
sufficient
.
But
they
wil
pleade
for
themselues
,
that
they
are
called
of
the
Church
,
and
therfore
are
not
to
be
disallowed
.
As
in
deed
,
euen
the
most
vnworthy
of
them
all
,
are
alwaies
boasting
of
their
calling
.
There
is
nothing
so
much
in
their
mouthes
as
that
.
But
I
answere
,
that
it
is
most
true
,
and
may
not
,
nor
cannot
bee
denied
,
that
the
calling
of
the
Church
is
most
necessary
for
the
making
of
a
Minister
.
And
though
a
man
were
furnished
with
as
rare
and
excellent
gifts
,
and
had
as
great
abilitie
to
preach
the
Gospell
,
as
euer
had
the
Apostle
Paul
,
yet
hee
may
not
take
vpon
him
the
office
of
a
Minister
,
in
an
ordinary
time
,
and
in
a
setled
gouernement
of
the
Church
,
vnlesse
hee
bee
lawfully
called
by
them
that
haue
authoritie
in
the
Church
to
ordaine
Ministers
.
Extraordinarie
calling
of
men
,
such
as
no
doubt
Luther
had
,
Act.
13.2
,
3.
neuer
hath
place
,
but
where
ordinarie
calling
wanteth
.
But
yet
for
all
this
,
the
outward
calling
of
the
Church
alone
,
is
not
sufficient
to
make
a
Minister
,
vnlesse
he
be
also
inwardly
called
of
God
.
Now
the
Lord
calleth
no
man
to
any
place
,
but
he
furnisheth
and
fitteth
him
with
gifts
,
to
discharge
the
duties
of
his
place
.
When
he
called
Bezaleel
and
Aholiab
,
Lxod.
31.2
,
3
,
4.
to
make
garments
and
instruments
for
the
Tabernacle
,
hee
first
filled
them
with
the
Spirit
of
God
in
wisedome
,
and
in
vnderstanding
,
and
in
knowledge
,
and
in
all
workemanship
:
To
finde
out
curious
workes
to
worke
in
gold
,
and
in
siluer
,
and
in
brasse
,
&c.
And
when
Gedeon
was
called
from
his
Trdde
,
Judg.
6.3
,
4.
to
be
the
Captaine
and
deliuerer
of
the
people
of
Israel
,
it
is
said
,
that
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
(
euen
the
Spirit
of
courage
and
fortitude
)
came
vpon
him
,
and
clad
him
like
a
garment
.
So
likewise
when
Saul
was
chosen
to
be
King
ouer
Israel
,
1.
Sam.
10.9
.
God
gaue
him
another
heart
:
That
is
,
a
stout
and
a
valiant
heart
,
fit
for
a
King
.
If
God
doe
thus
furnish
men
with
gifts
necessarie
,
when
he
calleth
them
to
offices
in
the
Common-wealth
:
can
we
doubt
of
the
like
care
in
him
,
to
furnish
them
sufficiently
,
whom
he
calleth
to
serue
in
his
Church
,
in
the
Ministerie
of
his
Word
?
1.
Tim.
1.12
.
And
this
the
Apostle
PAVL
confesseth
and
acknowledgeth
of
himselfe
,
that
as
the
Lord
in
his
mercie
counted
him
faithfull
(
though
most
vnworthy
,
hauing
been
before
a
blasphemer
,
and
a
persecuter
,
&c.
)
and
put
him
in
his
seruice
;
so
also
he
made
him
strong
to
the
performance
of
his
dutie
.
As
he
called
him
to
preach
the
Gospell
,
so
he
gaue
him
strength
and
abilitie
to
doe
it
with
fruite
and
profit
.
Hence
(
as
we
haue
heard
before
)
when
the
calling
and
Commission
of
the
Prophet
Is
AIAH
was
to
be
renued
,
Isei
.
6.6
,
7.
his
lips
were
touched
with
a
coale
from
the
Altar
.
Ier.
1.5
,
9.
And
when
the
Prophet
IEREMIAH
was
to
be
sent
to
preach
vnto
the
Nations
,
the
Lord
first
touched
bis
mouth
,
and
said
,
Behold
,
I
haue
put
my
words
in
thy
mouth
,
&c.
And
the
Apostles
,
Luke
24.49
.
before
they
went
foorth
to
the
execution
of
their
office
,
they
were
first
endued
with
power
from
on
high
.
And
howsoeuer
all
these
examples
be
extraordinarie
,
yet
still
,
whomsoeuer
the
Lord
calleth
by
ordinarie
meanes
,
hee
maketh
him
in
some
measure
sufficient
to
discharge
the
dutie
that
appertaineth
vnto
him
.
And
therefore
,
vnlesse
a
man
haue
as
well
an
inward
calling
from
God
,
as
an
outward
calling
from
the
Church
,
hee
is
no
true
Minister
,
he
is
but
halfe
a
Minister
.
As
the
Lord
denounceth
against
the
Priests
in
the
time
of
the
Law
,
Hos.
4.6
.
Because
thou
hastrefused
knowledge
,
I
will
also
refuse
thee
,
that
thou
shalt
be
no
Priest
to
me
.
They
may
be
Ministers
to
satisfie
Law
,
but
they
are
no
Ministers
of
God
.
As
Cyprian
saith
plainely
,
Lib.
4.
ep.
9.
They
that
are
vnworthie
,
are
not
ordained
of
God
,
nor
by
God
.
And
therefore
,
by
the
way
,
it
were
to
bee
wished
,
that
the
Gouernours
of
the
Church
,
to
whom
this
authoritie
to
appoint
Ministers
is
committed
,
De
consid
.
lib.
4.
would
alwaies
in
all
their
ordinations
,
remember
that
which
Bernard
writeth
to
Eugenius
:
namely
,
that
they
would
make
it
their
chiefest
care
to
bring
in
such
,
as
after
they
haue
brought
them
in
,
they
may
not
repent
of
it
.
But
to
returne
to
these
Ministers
againe
,
and
to
their
calling
.
Exposition
in
1.
Thes.
2.4
.
Bishop
IEWEL
saith
expresly
and
plainely
,
that
they
that
enter
into
the
Ministerie
,
must
be
allowed
not
of
men
onely
,
but
of
God
.
And
therefore
,
whosoeuer
taketh
that
charge
ouer
the
people
,
must
looke
narrowly
into
himselfe
,
and
see
whether
his
calling
be
of
God
.
Vnlesse
he
haue
a
testimonie
that
God
hath
called
him
inwardly
,
all
outward
calling
is
to
small
purpose
.
God
is
a
iust
Iudge
,
and
will
say
vnto
him
,
Friend
,
how
camest
thou
in
hither
,
&c.
And
indeede
what
comfort
can
a
man
haue
in
his
place
,
when
his
owne
conscience
shall
tell
him
,
Ier.
17.16
.
&
23.21
.
that
he
hath
thrust
in
himselfe
to
bee
a
Pastour
,
as
the
Propbet
saith
,
and
that
hee
hath
runne
,
when
the
Lord
hath
not
sent
him
?
TINDAL
,
that
blessed
Martyr
,
doth
sharpely
reproue
such
kinde
of
Ministers
.
Exposit.
in
Matth.
5.
In
what
case
are
they
,
saith
he
,
that
haue
benefices
,
and
preach
not
?
verily
,
though
they
stand
at
the
Altar
;
yet
they
are
excommunicate
,
and
cast
out
of
the
liuing
Church
of
Almightie
God
.
And
againe
,
Priests
that
preach
not
,
are
none
of
Christs
,
nor
none
of
his
anointing
:
but
seruants
of
the
beast
,
whose
marke
they
beare
.
And
good
Father
Latimer
saith
after
his
blunt
and
plaine
manner
:
In
a
Sermon
preached
before
King
Edward
the
sixth
.
If
there
were
but
one
vnpreaching
Minister
,
there
were
too
many
by
one
.
And
againe
,
as
good
Preachers
are
worthie
of
double
honour
,
so
these
are
worthie
of
double
dishonour
.
And
what
is
this
double
dishonour
,
saith
he
,
If
the
salt
be
vnsauory
,
it
is
good
for
nothing
,
but
to
cast
out
,
and
to
be
troden
vnder
foot
of
men
.
By
this
salt
,
is
vnderstood
such
as
haue
cure
of
soules
.
If
they
be
negligent
,
what
be
they
worthy
of
?
wherefore
serue
they
?
for
nothing
but
to
be
cast
out
:
that
is
one
dishonor
.
Another
dishonour
,
is
to
be
troden
vnder
foote
of
men
:
that
is
,
not
to
be
regarded
,
not
to
be
esteemed
.
And
againe
,
I
say
,
if
one
were
admitted
to
view
hell
,
and
to
behold
it
throughly
:
the
Deuill
would
say
:
On
yonder
side
are
punished
vnpreaching
Ministers
:
I
thinke
a
man
should
see
as
farre
as
hee
could
kenne
,
and
see
nothing
but
vnpreaching
Ministers
.
This
was
the
iudgement
of
these
worthie
men
,
and
reuerend
Fathers
of
our
Church
:
thus
they
thought
of
all
such
Ministers
,
as
occupy
a
roome
in
the
Ministery
,
and
haue
no
abilitie
to
doe
the
dutie
of
Ministers
.
And
indeed
they
are
the
very
calamity
and
plague
of
the
Church
.
They
keepe
the
people
in
ignorance
and
blindnesse
,
to
the
destruction
of
many
a
poore
soule
,
if
God
be
not
mereiful
.
As
the
Lord
saith
,
Hof.
4.6
.
Prou.
29.18
.
My
people
are
destroyed
for
lacke
of
knowledge
.
And
,
Where
there
is
no
vision
,
(
that
is
,
where
there
is
no
preaching
of
the
doctrine
of
God
out
of
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
)
the
people
decay
:
Tremel
.
in
annot
in
locum
.
Serm.
on
1.
Pet.
4.11
.
or
as
Tremellius
readeth
it
,
are
made
naked
.
Bishop
Iewell
vrging
the
necessitie
of
preaching
,
hath
a
good
saying
,
that
euen
as
when
the
Sunne
is
taken
out
of
the
World
,
all
things
are
left
dorke
:
so
is
it
when
the
voice
of
the
Pastor
is
not
heard
in
the
Church
.
And
in
another
place
he
saith
,
Serm.
on
Luke
10
23.24
.
Wher
ᵉ
the
Word
is
not
preached
,
there
the
Church
must
needes
runne
vpon
the
rocke
.
Little
maruell
is
it
if
faith
faile
,
where
good
instruction
wanteth
.
Vbi
supra
.
And
Latimer
goeth
yet
further
:
Take
away
preaching
,
saith
hee
,
and
take
away
saluation
.
GOD
helpe
those
poore
Congregations
,
that
grone
vnder
the
burden
of
such
Ministers
.
I
haue
no
purpose
to
disgrace
any
mans
person
.
Onely
my
earnest
desire
is
,
to
perswade
all
that
haue
any
gifts
,
though
neuer
so
small
,
not
to
suffer
them
to
rust
as
they
doe
for
want
of
vse
.
I
confesse
,
that
it
may
not
bee
looked
for
,
that
there
should
bee
a
like
measure
and
proportion
of
gifts
in
all
Ministers
.
For
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
1.
Cor.
12.11
.
The
Spirit
of
God
distributeth
them
seuerally
to
euery
man
as
he
will
.
But
as
it
was
said
of
Dauids
Worthies
,
that
though
diuers
of
them
did
not
attaine
to
the
first
three
,
2.
Sam.
23.19
,
23.
yet
they
were
most
excellent
and
honourable
among
others
:
So
though
wee
bee
much
inferiour
to
them
,
Horat.
lib.
1.
Epist
1.
whose
gifts
are
most
eminent
in
the
Church
,
yet
let
vs
striue
to
bee
as
excellent
as
wee
can
.
And
therefore
,
they
that
haue
any
measure
of
giftes
,
let
them
bee
admonished
to
stirre
them
vp
,
2.
Tim.
1.6
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
TIMOTHEVS
:
Where
hee
vseth
a
word
taken
from
a
sparke
of
fre
,
raked
vp
vnder
the
ashes
,
which
by
gentle
blowing
,
is
quickened
and
kindled
to
a
flame
.
And
indeede
,
there
were
neuer
more
helpes
to
further
a
man
this
way
,
then
there
are
in
this
age
wherein
wee
liue
,
if
he
haue
any
wit
to
make
vse
of
them
,
or
any
desire
to
doe
good
with
them
.
It
was
a
very
good
speech
,
which
our
worthy
and
reuerend
Diocesan
in
his
last
visitation
at
Lincolne
,
B.
Barlow
.
vsed
to
some
vnprofitable
Ministers
there
present
,
that
if
they
would
but
diligently
studie
the
English
bookes
of
Dininitie
that
are
now
in
print
,
they
might
doe
much
good
in
Gods
Church
.
For
haue
we
not
the
writings
of
many
excellent
Ministers
of
our
owne
Church
,
as
D.
Willet
,
Mr.
Greencham
,
Mr.
Perkins
,
Mr.
Dod
,
and
others
published
for
the
benefit
of
all
men
?
And
are
not
the
learned
workes
of
Mr.
Caluin
,
and
other
Ministers
of
forraine
Churches
,
as
also
S.
Augustines
excellent
booke
of
the
Citie
of
God
,
translated
into
our
owne
language
?
All
which
if
they
bee
read
with
diligence
,
may
furnish
a
man
with
competent
knowledge
of
Diuinitie
.
And
haue
we
not
many
of
our
owne
Writers
that
haue
trauelled
also
very
profitably
in
handling
the
controuersies
betweene
vs
and
the
Papists
?
as
B.
Iewel
,
D.
Rainold
,
D.
Abbot
,
D.
Willet
,
D.
Morton
,
and
others
?
And
if
any
man
desire
to
bee
instructed
also
in
matter
of
historie
,
and
other
humane
learning
,
are
not
the
workes
of
Liuie
,
Plinie
,
Plutarch
,
Iosephus
,
Eusebius
and
others
,
turned
also
into
English
?
Nay
,
indeede
what
learning
is
there
almost
,
that
a
man
desireth
to
know
,
but
(
God
make
vs
thankefull
for
so
great
a
blessing
)
he
may
haue
it
in
his
owne
mother
tongue
?
So
that
now
,
vnlesse
a
man
will
be
wanting
to
himselfe
,
though
he
be
neuer
so
much
a
Lacke-Latine
,
as
we
vse
to
say
,
though
he
vnderstand
no
more
tongues
,
then
that
hee
was
borne
with
,
yet
he
may
be
able
to
teach
the
people
committed
to
his
charge
,
and
to
instruct
them
profitably
,
at
least
,
in
the
grounds
and
principles
of
religion
.
Let
them
therefore
be
excited
to
shake
off
that
slothfull
negligence
,
that
hath
so
long
possessed
them
:
and
let
them
at
the
last
seriously
set
themselues
to
the
Lords
worke
,
and
pray
earnestly
for
Gods
blessing
;
so
shall
they
become
more
profitable
to
the
Church
,
and
haue
a
great
deale
more
comfort
in
their
owne
consciences
.
But
if
there
be
any
that
haue
no
gifts
,
nor
abilitie
at
all
to
discharge
their
dutie
,
(
as
God
knoweth
,
there
are
many
shepheards
that
differ
but
little
from
their
flocke
)
I
know
not
what
to
say
to
them
:
but
as
the
poore
woman
said
to
the
Heathen
King
,
that
could
not
attend
to
doe
her
iustice
,
Why
then
doest
thou
raigne
?
so
I
say
,
what
doe
they
in
the
place
of
Ministers
,
if
they
bee
no
way
able
to
doe
the
dutie
of
Ministers
?
There
is
a
good
President
for
them
in
the
Prophesie
of
Zechariah
:
where
the
Prophet
speaketh
of
some
such
Friests
,
Zech.
13.4
,
5
,
6.
that
pestered
the
Church
in
his
time
,
that
they
should
no
longer
weare
a
rough
garment
to
deceiue
:
But
he
shall
say
,
I
am
no
Prophet
,
I
am
an
Husbandman
:
for
man
tanght
mee
to
bee
an
Heard-man
from
my
youth
vp
:
That
is
,
he
shall
lay
aside
his
Priestly
habite
,
Gualter
&
Tremellius
in
locum
illum
.
and
shall
freely
confesse
his
ignorance
,
and
acknowledge
,
that
he
ought
rather
to
be
sent
away
to
the
plough
,
or
to
play
the
Shepheard
,
then
to
be
suffered
any
longer
in
the
Ministery
of
the
Church
,
and
so
shall
willingly
betake
himselfe
to
the
labour
of
his
hand
,
that
hee
may
no
longer
bee
a
burden
to
the
Church
.
And
where
it
is
said
in
the
next
verse
,
And
one
shall
say
vnto
him
,
What
are
these
wounds
in
thy
hands
?
Then
he
shall
answere
,
Thus
was
I
wounded
in
the
house
of
my
friends
.
The
meaning
of
it
is
,
that
he
will
be
so
farre
from
murmuring
and
complaining
for
the
losse
of
his
gaine
and
honour
,
as
that
rather
hee
will
account
them
his
greatest
friends
,
that
first
perswaded
him
to
leaue
his
sinne
.
Oh
that
our
ignorant
and
insufficient
Ministers
would
follow
this
example
.
There
are
many
of
them
of
strong
and
able
bodies
,
and
though
they
cannot
worke
this
worke
of
a
Minister
,
yet
no
doubt
they
would
prooue
tall
workemen
in
other
things
.
It
were
a
happy
thing
for
Gods
Church
,
if
they
would
returne
to
those
professions
,
wherein
they
were
brought
vp
and
exercised
,
before
they
entred
into
the
Ministery
,
and
wherein
they
haue
more
skill
.
So
doing
,
though
their
life
would
be
somewhat
more
painefull
then
now
it
is
,
yet
doubtlesse
,
their
sleepe
would
be
a
great
deale
more
sweete
and
comfortable
.
As
Salomon
saith
,
Eccles.
5.11
.
The
sleepe
of
the
labouring
man
is
sweete
,
whether
he
eate
little
or
much
.
Whereas
now
I
cannot
see
,
how
they
can
take
any
quiet
rest
,
when
their
guiltie
consciences
doe
continually
barke
against
them
,
or
if
they
haue
gagged
their
consciences
for
a
time
,
yet
the
bloud
of
so
many
soules
,
which
haue
perished
through
their
negligence
,
cryeth
lowder
in
the
eares
of
God
for
vengeance
,
then
euer
did
the
bloud
of
Habel
.
Genes.
4.10
.
Another
sort
of
Ministers
that
come
within
the
compasse
of
this
reproofe
,
are
such
as
are
idle
,
that
though
they
haue
gifts
,
whereby
they
might
doe
much
good
,
yet
seldome
or
neuer
vse
them
.
They
neuer
entred
into
the
Ministerie
with
any
purpose
to
serue
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
but
rather
their
owne
bellies
,
Rom.
16.18
.
as
the
Apostle
saith
.
If
they
may
eate
the
fat
,
Ezech.
34
3.
and
clothe
themselues
with
the
wooll
,
they
care
not
greatly
what
becommeth
of
the
flocke
.
But
they
might
know
,
that
the
calling
vnto
the
Ministerie
is
not
directed
to
that
ende
,
that
such
slow
bellies
should
onely
enioy
the
dignities
,
and
idly
possesse
the
reuenues
of
the
Church
,
but
according
to
the
common
saying
,
Beneficium
datur
propter
officium
.
A
benefice
is
giuen
for
the
duties
sake
.
And
this
is
that
which
the
Apostle
saith
:
The
Elders
that
rule
well
are
worthy
of
double
honour
,
1.
Tim
5.17
.
specially
,
De
consid
.
lib.
4.
they
that
labour
in
the
word
and
doctrine
.
To
this
purpose
Bernard
hath
a
worthy
saying
:
There
haue
been
Bishops
,
saith
hee
,
that
would
wholly
set
themselues
to
the
feeding
of
their
sheepe
,
glorying
in
the
work
and
name
of
a
shepheard
;
counting
nothing
vnbeseeming
them
,
but
that
which
might
be
thought
to
hinder
the
saluation
of
their
sheepe
;
not
seeking
,
but
bestowing
their
owne
things
,
bestowing
their
care
,
bestowing
their
substance
,
bestowing
euen
themselues
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
I
will
be
bestowed
for
your
soules
.
All
their
gaine
was
for
their
people
;
their
onely
pompe
,
and
their
onely
pleasure
was
to
prepare
them
a
perfect
people
to
the
Lord
.
But
where
Is
now
this
custome
?
a
farre
vnlike
is
come
in
the
place
of
it
.
These
studies
are
changed
into
other
,
and
I
feare
,
into
the
worse
,
In
Declamat
.
&c.
And
in
another
place
,
he
is
conuinced
to
be
vnworthy
of
the
milke
and
the
wooll
,
that
doth
not
feede
the
sheepe
,
that
doth
not
watch
for
the
safegard
of
the
flocke
.
Such
a
man
eateth
and
feedeth
vpon
his
owne
iudgement
:
Woe
,
woe
be
vnto
thee
:
Behold
,
death
is
in
the
pot
;
death
is
in
the
flesh-pots
,
death
is
in
the
delights
of
this
world
,
and
especially
for
this
,
because
it
is
manifest
,
that
they
are
the
sinnes
of
the
people
which
thou
eatest
.
It
were
better
for
thee
to
digge
,
yea
,
to
begge
.
For
thou
eatest
the
sins
of
the
people
,
as
if
thine
owne
were
not
sufficient
for
thee
.
Our
Sauiour
Christ
,
when
he
called
his
disciples
,
hee
bids
them
follow
him
,
and
hee
would
make
them
Fishers
of
men
:
Matthew
4.19
.
Wherevpon
one
well
obserueth
,
CHRIST
hath
not
enioyned
them
,
to
fish
for
great
liuing
,
and
other
dignitie
,
nor
for
earthly
gaine
,
or
for
the
praise
of
men
.
They
that
doe
so
,
shew
that
they
are
rather
from
the
Deuill
fishers
of
money
,
then
from
God
fishers
of
men
.
Let
these
men
harken
to
that
which
Bishop
IEWEL
saith
of
such
as
they
are
.
O
what
a
case
,
saith
he
,
are
they
in
,
Exposit.
in
1.
Thes.
2.17
,
18.
that
are
carelesse
of
Gods
people
,
that
hunt
after
many
liuings
,
and
bend
themselues
to
doe
no
good
:
which
serue
their
owne
belly
,
and
seeke
to
be
rich
,
and
eate
vp
Gods
people
as
it
were
bread
!
What
account
shall
they
giue
to
God
for
the
soules
of
their
brethren
?
where
shall
they
stand
,
or
what
shall
they
say
,
when
they
shall
be
called
to
giue
account
of
their
Stewardship
?
It
were
to
be
wished
,
that
they
that
are
gouernours
of
the
Church
,
would
vse
their
authoritie
,
to
reforme
this
grosse
idlenesse
of
the
Ministers
.
They
might
iustly
say
to
them
,
Exod.
5.17
,
18.
as
Pharaoh
said
cruelly
to
the
poore
Israelites
,
Yee
are
too
much
idle
,
get
you
to
your
worke
,
and
to
your
burdens
.
Is
it
not
a
lamentable
thing
,
that
wee
should
haue
some
that
goe
for
licensed
Preachers
,
that
preach
not
once
in
seuen
yeeres
?
If
these
be
Preachers
,
they
are
Preachers
by
the
contrary
.
They
may
bee
fitly
compared
to
Welles
without
water
,
2.
Pet.
2.17
.
which
a
wearie
traueller
commeth
to
,
in
hope
to
quench
his
thirst
:
but
alas
,
he
goeth
away
discomforted
:
Iude
vers.
12.
or
to
cloudes
without
raine
,
which
giue
men
some
hope
of
a
shewre
,
to
water
and
refresh
the
earth
:
but
in
the
ende
their
hope
is
frustrate
.
They
are
like
that
Fig-tree
which
our
Sauiour
cursed
,
Mark
.
11.13
.
that
flourished
with
leaues
,
but
had
no
fruit
.
So
many
of
them
make
a
very
faire
shew
with
outward
grauitie
,
but
they
want
inward
substance
.
In
a
word
,
they
are
like
those
Idols
in
the
Psalme
,
Psal.
115.5
.
1.
Cor.
4.2
.
that
haue
mouthes
,
but
they
speake
not
.
The
Apostle
saith
,
that
it
is
required
of
the
Lords
Stewards
,
that
they
be
found
faithfull
.
But
alas
,
to
do
nothing
at
all
,
to
take
no
paines
,
but
to
bury
themselues
in
idlenesse
,
is
not
to
be
faithfull
;
and
therefore
such
Ministers
can
haue
no
comfortable
assurance
that
they
are
Gods
Stewards
.
Secondly
,
this
serueth
to
exhort
vs
all
that
are
entred
into
this
high
calling
,
with
care
and
conscience
to
set
our selues
to
preach
the
Word
vnto
the
people
committed
to
our
charge
.
Tacit.
Annal.
lib.
4.
And
that
not
now
and
then
onely
,
but
with
the
greatest
diligence
we
can
vse
.
For
as
the
Apostle
saith
of
almes
,
that
God
loueth
a
cheerefull
giuer
,
2.
Cor.
9.7
.
so
we
should
addresse
our selues
to
the
performance
of
this
dutie
with
all
alacritie
and
chearefulnesse
,
counting
the
businesses
of
our
calling
our
recreations
,
Devita
solitar.
as
was
said
of
Tiberius
the
Emperour
:
and
with
good
B.
Iewell
,
thinking
it
our
greatest
honour
to
die
in
the
Pulpit
.
And
howsoeuer
it
may
seeme
hard
and
difficult
at
the
first
,
yet
diligence
and
frequent
vse
will
make
it
easie
.
The
Husbandman
,
we
see
,
hath
hard
sinewes
and
strong
armes
.
Exercise
,
saith
Bernard
,
hath
made
it
so
,
as
by
slouthfulnesse
he
becomes
effeminate
.
The
will
causeth
vse
,
vse
causeth
exercise
,
and
exercise
ministreth
strength
in
all
labour
.
And
it
was
a
good
saying
of
Boetius
,
Discipl-Schola
.
that
as
in
euery
worke
constancie
and
diligence
is
found
to
be
a
mother
:
so
on
the
contrary
side
,
of
all
learning
and
discipline
negligence
is
the
stepmother
.
And
as
the
Heathen
Orator
said
,
Cic.
pro.
C.
Rabir.
vse
and
practice
is
the
best
master
.
Neither
must
we
be
discouraged
,
though
as
many
times
it
falleth
out
,
we
see
little
fruit
follow
our
labours
.
Plin.
secund.
lib.
6.
ep.
29.
He
that
taketh
in
hand
to
fell
,
and
cut
downe
a
great
Oke
,
though
after
many
strokes
with
his
axe
,
it
seeme
to
stand
as
strong
as
euer
it
did
;
yet
hee
giueth
not
ouer
,
but
redoubleth
his
stroke
with
greater
force
,
til
at
the
last
it
fall
,
and
then
hee
seeth
that
his
former
strokes
were
not
in
vaine
.
A
louing
Mother
,
though
the
froward
child
do
often
refuse
the
meat
,
and
spit
it
out
:
yet
leaueth
not
for
that
,
but
still
feedeth
it
,
and
putteth
the
meate
into
the
mouth
againe
,
and
at
the
last
it
eateth
.
So
though
our
people
bee
hard
to
worke
vpon
,
and
froward
to
receiue
any
thing
that
is
good
,
yet
wee
must
not
leaue
them
to
themselues
,
but
apply
and
follow
them
with
instruction
,
and
in
time
they
may
become
more
pliable
.
Neuer
any
of
the
Prophets
,
saith
Luther
,
could
conuert
all
that
they
taught
.
In
a
Sermon
vpon
1.
Pe.
4.11
and
B.
Iewel
,
God
himselfe
,
saith
hee
,
husbanded
the
Vine
,
and
yet
it
brought
forth
wilde
grapes
,
Isaiah
5.2.4
.
God
himselfe
stretched
out
his
hands
all
the
day
to
a
rebellious
people
:
Isa.
65.2
.
And
Christ
himselfe
,
would
often
haue
gathered
Ierusalems
children
together
,
as
the
hen
gathereth
her
chickens
vnder
her
wings
,
and
they
would
not
,
Mat.
23.37
.
Let
vs
,
saith
he
,
doe
our
endeuour
,
and
leaue
the
successe
to
the
Lord
.
For
this
cause
we
are
called
Fishers
,
Mat.
4.19
.
Ouid.
dearte
.
Now
we
know
that
Fishermen
,
whether
they
fish
with
net
or
with
angle
,
doe
make
many
a
draught
,
and
cast
many
a
baite
into
the
water
,
and
catch
but
a
little
fish
.
Simon
Peter
and
his
fellowes
had
trauelled
a
whole
night
,
and
caught
nothing
:
Luke
5.5
.
yet
they
were
not
discouraged
,
but
at
Christs
commandement
let
downe
the
net
againe
,
and
then
they
inclosed
a
great
multitude
of
fishes
.
So
in
like
manner
,
though
wee
lose
our
labour
many
times
;
yet
we
must
not
giue
ouer
:
Christ
may
bring
fishes
into
our
nets
,
when
we
looke
not
for
it
.
We
are
compared
to
seeds-men
:
Luk.
8.11
.
Now
all
the
seed
which
the
Sower
casteth
into
the
ground
doth
not
fructifie
.
Nay
,
as
our
Sauiour
doth
teach
vs
in
that
parable
,
that
of
foure
kinds
of
grounds
,
there
is
but
one
good
ground
,
which
receiueth
the
seede
with
profit
.
To
which
purpose
,
De
Doctr.
Christ
.
S.
Augustine
hath
a
good
saying
,
They
that
heare
and
learne
not
,
what
is
it
to
the
seedes-man
?
Nether
the
high-way
,
nor
the
stones
,
nor
the
thornes
doe
terrifie
the
hands
of
the
Seeds-man
:
he
casteth
that
which
is
his
:
he
that
shall
be
afraid
,
lest
his
seede
fal
vpon
bad
ground
,
doth
not
come
vnto
good
ground
.
We
are
called
Phisicians
of
mens
soules
.
But
there
is
no
Phisician
that
cureth
all
his
patients
.
De
Consid.
lib.
4.
As
Bernard
saith
wittily
:
Be
not
discouraged
,
there
is
care
and
diligence
required
of
thee
,
not
curing
and
healing
.
Thou
hast
heard
it
said
in
the
Gospell
,
Take
care
of
him
,
not
cure
or
heale
him
.
One
said
ture
,
It
is
not
in
the
Phisicion
alwaies
to
relieue
the
sick
partie
.
Paul
saith
,
I
laboured
more
then
they
all
:
he
doth
not
say
,
I
profited
more
then
they
all
.
Yea
,
it
may
bee
,
that
the
labours
may
doe
good
,
though
thou
seest
it
not
.
A
vessell
that
often
receiueth
water
into
it
,
though
it
be
presently
powred
out
againe
:
yet
it
is
cleansed
at
the
last
,
though
not
at
the
first
,
nor
the
second
time
.
In
like
manner
,
doe
not
thou
cease
to
powre
water
vpon
the
the
vncleane
,
though
they
be
not
cleansed
at
the
first
powring
,
yet
with
often
powring
they
may
.
As
Luther
saith
well
to
the
same
purpose
:
It
is
impossible
that
the
Word
of
God
should
be
preached
without
fruite
.
But
though
all
bee
not
conuerted
:
yet
there
are
some
,
that
of
sinners
,
will
become
beleeuers
,
and
be
saued
.
For
the
successe
of
the
Ministerie
is
not
in
the
will
of
men
,
but
of
God
.
As
Salomon
saith
,
Prou.
20.12
.
The
Lord
hath
made
both
these
,
euen
the
eare
to
heare
,
and
the
eye
to
see
:
that
is
to
say
:
It
is
both
of
the
gift
of
God
,
that
there
should
be
some
to
teach
sound
doctrine
,
and
some
to
obey
the
sound
Teachers
.
And
a
little
further
hee
addeth
:
The
good
ground
will
bring
foorth
fruite
,
let
the
other
three
parts
goe
to
the
deuill
.
But
though
it
should
fall
out
,
that
no
fruite
at
all
should
bee
seene
in
respect
of
the
people
:
De
Consid.
lib.
4.
yet
wee
shall
bee
sure
not
to
lose
our
labour
.
For
as
Bernard
saith
,
Euery
man
shall
receiue
according
to
his
labour
,
not
according
to
his
successe
.
So
,
doe
thou
that
,
that
belongs
to
thee
:
For
God
will
sufficiently
looke
to
that
,
that
appertaineth
to
him
,
without
thy
care
and
thought-taking
.
Plant
,
water
,
take
paines
,
and
thou
hast
done
thy
part
:
doubtlesse
God
will
giue
the
increase
,
when
hee
thinkes
good
,
and
not
thou
.
But
if
he
will
not
,
thou
losest
nothing
,
as
the
Scripture
saith
,
God
will
render
a
reward
to
the
labour
of
his
Saints
.
It
is
secure
labour
which
no
defect
can
make
frustrate
.
And
this
was
the
Apostle
Pauls
comfort
,
that
hauing
been
diligent
in
the
discharge
of
his
dutie
,
and
hauing
omitted
no
paines
neither
publike
nor
priuate
,
whatsoeuer
fruite
followed
of
his
Ministery
,
hee
was
pure
from
the
bloud
of
all
men
.
Acts
20.26
.
And
the
Lord
telleth
the
Prophet
EZECHIEL
,
that
if
hee
faile
not
to
warne
the
wicked
of
the
danger
of
his
sinne
,
though
hee
will
not
turne
from
his
wicked
way
,
Ezech.
3.19
.
and
so
die
in
his
iniquitie
,
yet
hee
should
deliuer
his
owne
soule
.
True
it
is
,
that
it
ought
to
bee
the
desire
of
euery
good
Minister
,
that
if
it
please
God
,
all
his
people
may
be
conuerted
,
and
so
come
to
saluation
.
But
if
this
cannot
bee
effected
,
but
that
the
Lord
doe
rather
by
his
Ministerie
,
make
them
fagots
for
hell
fire
,
and
though
his
preaching
bee
the
sauour
of
death
vnto
death
vnto
them
all
,
and
not
the
sauour
of
life
vnto
any
:
2.
Cor.
2.15
,
16.
yet
if
hee
haue
faithfully
and
conscionably
done
that
that
was
required
of
him
,
he
shall
still
be
a
sweet
sauour
vnto
God
.
And
herein
our
condition
that
are
Gods
husbandmen
,
is
farre
better
then
the
condition
of
an
earthly
husbandman
.
When
he
hath
cast
his
seede
into
the
ground
,
if
the
haruest
doe
not
answere
his
expectation
,
hee
loseth
not
onely
his
labour
,
but
his
seede
also
.
But
if
we
haue
done
our
duty
to
the
vttermost
of
our
power
,
though
for
any
thing
that
we
can
see
,
as
the
Prophet
saith
,
We
haue
laboured
in
vaine
,
Isa.
49.4
,
5.
and
spent
our
strength
in
vaine
and
for
nothing
:
yet
our
indgement
is
with
the
Lord
,
and
our
worke
with
our
God
.
And
though
our
people
will
not
be
gathered
by
our
Ministery
:
yet
shall
we
be
glorious
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
.
Yea
,
though
our
people
out
of
a
froward
disposition
,
do
wrong
vs
,
and
offer
vs
iniurie
,
yet
wee
must
not
giue
ouer
our
paines
.
A
mother
casteth
not
away
her
childe
,
though
it
haue
made
her
brests
sore
with
sucking
,
but
with
patience
endureth
the
smart
,
to
doe
the
childe
good
.
So
must
we
,
2.
Tim.
2.24
,
25.
&
4.2
.
(
as
the
Apostle
commandeth
vs
)
suffer
euill
men
patiently
,
and
instruct
them
with
meekenesse
that
are
contrary
minded
,
prooning
if
God
at
any
time
will
gine
them
repentance
,
&c.
Nay
,
we
must
not
be
discouraged
,
though
our
people
become
our
enemies
,
and
persecute
vs
.
As
many
times
it
commeth
to
passe
,
especially
,
if
we
bee
sincere
in
our
Ministerie
,
and
doe
plainely
rebuke
them
,
Leui.
19.17
.
and
not
suffer
them
to
sin
.
Then
they
rage
,
and
then
they
vse
al
their
power
to
worke
vs
trouble
.
As
indeede
that
speech
of
Luther
is
most
true
.
To
preach
the
Word
of
God
sincerely
,
is
nothing
else
,
but
to
draw
vpon
a
mans
selfe
all
the
fury
of
hell
and
the
deuill
,
and
all
the
power
of
the
world
.
And
it
is
a
most
dangerous
kind
of
life
,
to
offer
a
mans
selfe
to
so
many
teeth
of
Satan
.
This
was
the
condition
of
all
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
,
as
may
be
seene
in
the
whole
course
of
the
Scriptures
.
And
there
are
but
a
few
faithfull
Ministers
at
this
day
,
but
they
haue
experience
of
it
.
But
we
must
not
faint
for
fall
this
,
De
Consid.
lib.
4.
but
rather
,
as
Bernard
saith
,
if
they
be
of
an
hard
forehead
,
wee
must
also
harden
ours
against
them
.
There
is
nothing
so
hard
,
that
will
not
yeeld
to
a
harder
.
And
this
is
that
which
the
Lord
said
to
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
,
that
though
the
people
,
Ezech.
2.6
.
&
3.8
,
9.
with
whom
he
had
to
deale
,
were
rebels
and
thornes
,
and
scorpions
,
yet
,
saith
he
,
I
haue
made
thy
face
hard
against
their
faces
,
and
thy
forehead
hard
against
their
foreheads
.
I
haue
made
thy
forehead
as
the
Adamant
,
and
harder
then
the
flint
:
feare
them
not
therefore
,
neither
bee
afraid
at
their
lookes
.
And
the
like
commandement
did
the
Lord
giue
to
the
Prophet
IEREMIAH
,
Jerem.
1.17
.
Thou
therefore
,
saith
he
,
trusse
vp
thy
loines
,
and
arise
,
and
speake
vnto
them
all
that
I
command
thee
:
be
not
afraide
of
their
faces
,
lest
I
destroy
thee
before
them
.
Wee
may
not
bee
dumbe
and
cowardly
dogs
,
that
dare
not
barke
at
mens
beards
,
if
they
be
great
and
of
any
power
:
but
we
must
be
of
generous
spirits
,
not
fearing
the
face
or
big
looks
of
any
man
.
And
indeed
,
seeing
we
are
the
seruants
of
God
,
we
need
not
feare
,
but
that
he
will
protectvs
in
the
discharge
of
our
duties
.
Wee
see
,
that
great
men
in
the
world
doe
beare
out
their
seruants
:
much
more
will
the
Lord
beare
out
his
seruants
,
that
doe
him
faithfull
seruice
in
the
Ministerie
of
his
Word
.
As
he
promised
the
Prophet
IEREMIAH
:
Behold
,
Ier.
1.18
,
19.
I
haue
made
thee
this
day
a
defenced
Citie
,
and
an
iron
pillar
,
and
walles
of
brasse
against
the
whole
land
,
&c.
For
they
shall
fight
against
thee
,
but
they
shall
not
preuaile
against
thee
:
for
I
am
with
thee
,
to
deliuer
thee
,
saith
the
Lord
.
The
vse
of
this
doctrine
for
the
people
,
is
first
to
reproue
them
that
account
the
Ministers
life
to
be
an
easie
life
.
As
the
most
of
them
thinke
,
that
we
get
our
liuing
easily
,
we
take
no
paines
,
but
patter
on
a
booke
a
little
,
&c.
But
wee
see
by
that
that
hath
been
spoken
,
that
they
are
greatly
deceiued
.
Our
Sauiour
Christ
compareth
the
work
of
a
Minister
,
to
things
of
great
labor
,
as
to
plowing
,
fallowing
,
planting
,
rearing
an
house
,
feeding
of
cattell
,
and
such
like
,
in
all
which
,
great
paines
and
diligence
is
required
.
Cato
saith
,
In
lib.
de
agricult
.
He
that
tilleth
the
ground
,
must
not
sit
still
,
for
he
hath
alwaies
something
to
doe
.
And
indeede
,
the
worke
of
the
Husbandman
is
neuer
at
ende
.
Sometimes
hee
fallowes
,
sometimes
hee
stirres
,
sometimes
he
carrieth
out
his
compasse
.
Sometimes
he
sowes
,
sometimes
he
harrowes
,
sometimes
he
weedes
:
yea
euery
moneth
bringeth
with
it
new
worke
.
So
the
Minister
,
that
is
Gods
husbandman
,
if
hee
haue
a
care
to
do
his
dutie
well
,
shal
find
husinesse
enough
to
keepe
him
from
being
idle
.
And
howsoeuer
it
be
true
,
that
he
doe
not
toyle
with
his
body
so
much
as
the
other
doth
:
yet
his
labour
is
much
more
profitable
.
The
Master
of
the
ship
seemeth
to
be
idle
;
hee
stirres
not
the
pumpe
,
he
driues
not
the
oares
,
he
rides
not
the
ropes
,
hee
doth
no
other
work
that
is
painefull
to
the
body
:
and
yet
his
study
and
care
is
more
auaileable
to
the
safetie
of
the
ship
,
then
all
their
labour
.
In
like
manner
wee
may
say
of
faithfull
Ministers
,
as
Seneca
said
of
Philosophers
,
and
a
great
deale
more
truely
:
They
doe
not
leade
an
idle
life
:
their
ease
and
rest
is
more
profitable
to
men
,
then
other
mens
sweating
and
running
vp
and
downe
.
Nay
,
if
the
matter
be
well
considered
,
it
will
be
found
,
that
the
continuall
exercise
of
his
minde
in
diligent
study
,
and
the
enforcing
of
his
voice
in
deliuering
the
word
,
doth
more
enfeeble
and
weaken
the
bodie
,
then
any
other
bodily
labour
.
As
Seneca
saith
well
,
[
](A10740-e20650-b)(a)
(a)
In
prolog.
Declam
.
The
wearinesse
of
the
wit
,
is
no
lesse
then
the
wearinesse
of
the
body
,
but
more
secret
.
And
Luther
maketh
no
bones
to
say
,
that
the
labour
of
the
Husbandmen
hath
no
proportion
to
our
toyle
and
sweat
.
And
whosoeuer
shall
compare
them
both
together
,
shall
easily
see
this
to
be
true
.
The
Husbandman
that
toyleth
all
the
yeere
in
the
field
,
hath
a
sounder
complexion
,
and
a
better
stomack
,
then
the
poore
Minister
that
sitteth
all
the
day
in
his
study
,
and
doth
nothing
,
as
they
thinke
,
but
pore
vpon
a
booke
.
Let
them
therefore
learne
to
relinquish
this
error
of
theirs
,
and
at
the
last
acknowledge
,
that
the
life
of
a
conscionable
Minister
is
painefull
and
a
laborious
life
.
In
deede
there
are
a
number
of
idle
Drones
that
occupy
the
roomes
of
Ministers
,
and
they
(
I
confesse
)
liue
easily
enough
:
for
many
of
them
doe
little
else
,
Exod.
32.6
.
but
,
sit
downe
to
eate
and
drinke
,
and
rise
vp
to
play
,
as
it
was
said
of
the
Israelites
.
But
a
godly
Minister
that
maketh
a
conscience
of
his
calling
,
hath
labour
and
trauell
sufficient
,
in
performing
the
seuerall
duties
of
it
.
Secondly
,
it
serueth
for
instruction
.
And
first
it
teacheth
all
them
that
want
good
Ministers
,
what
manner
of
Ministers
they
should
desire
:
namely
,
such
as
bee
workemen
,
such
as
be
painefull
labourers
,
not
loyterers
.
As
our
Sauiour
Christ
saith
,
Mat.
9.38
.
1.
Tim.
5.17
.
Pray
the
Lord
of
the
Haruest
,
that
he
would
send
forth
labourers
into
his
Haruest
,
such
as
will
labour
diligently
in
the
word
and
Doctrine
.
But
alas
,
the
most
men
do
little
regard
this
of
all
other
things
.
If
their
Minister
be
a
quiet
man
,
and
will
vse
them
kindely
for
their
Tithes
;
if
hee
be
a
good
fellow
,
and
will
sit
neighbourly
with
them
,
and
spend
his
penny
,
as
they
doe
theirs
in
the
Ale-house
:
if
he
read
them
faite
seruice
,
as
they
cal
it
,
and
trouble
them
not
with
preaching
too
often
:
or
if
he
doe
step
now
and
then
into
the
Pulpit
,
if
he
meddle
not
too
much
with
their
sins
,
but
will
prophesie
vnto
them
of
wine
and
strong
drinke
,
Mich.
2.11
.
as
the
Prophet
saith
,
and
so
please
their
humours
,
they
care
for
no
more
,
he
is
the
best
Minister
for
them
that
can
be
.
Againe
,
for
those
to
whom
God
in
mercie
hath
giuen
faithful
Pastours
,
Jer.
3.15
.
which
are
carefull
to
feede
them
with
knowledge
and
vnderstanding
:
they
must
learne
from
hence
to
be
thankefull
vnto
them
.
And
first
,
they
must
haue
them
in
high
estimation
,
and
imbrace
them
with
all
loue
and
kinde
affection
:
1.
Tim.
5.17
.
For
they
that
labour
in
the
Word
and
doctrine
,
are
worthie
of
double
honour
.
To
this
purpose
is
that
exhortation
of
the
Apostle
:
1.
Thess
,
5
,
12
,
13
Now
we
beseech
you
,
brethren
,
that
ye
know
them
which
labour
among
you
,
&c.
That
yee
haue
them
in
singular
loue
for
their
workes
sake
.
And
when
he
sent
Epaphroditus
a
faithfull
Minister
,
and
his
companion
in
labour
to
the
Philippians
,
Phil.
2.25.29
.
hee
bids
them
receiue
them
in
the
Lord
with
allgladnesse
,
and
make
much
of
such
.
And
the
Apostle
testifieth
of
the
Galatians
,
that
they
esteemed
so
reuerently
of
him
,
as
that
they
receiued
him
as
an
Angell
of
God
,
Gal.
4.14
.
Ecclus.
38
,
1.
yea
,
as
Christ
Iesus
.
If
we
must
honour
the
bodily
Phisician
,
because
of
necessitie
:
much
more
must
we
honour
the
Minister
,
whom
God
hath
made
the
Phifician
of
our
soules
.
And
indeed
,
the
labour
of
a
faithfull
Minister
can
neuer
be
sufficiently
recompenced
with
any
dutie
or
seruice
which
they
can
performe
.
For
if
Alexander
the
great
,
thought
himselfe
to
owe
more
dutie
to
Aristotle
his
Master
,
that
trained
him
vp
in
the
knowledge
of
Philosohie
,
then
to
Philip
his
Father
that
begate
him
:
how
much
more
are
men
bound
to
their
godly
Ministers
,
who
are
not
onely
their
instructers
to
teach
them
the
knowledge
of
Gods
will
:
but
also
their
spirituall
Fathers
,
1.
Cor.
4
15.
to
beget
them
in
Christ
Iesus
through
the
Gospell
?
But
God
knoweth
,
it
fareth
with
many
of
vs
,
2.
Cor.
12.15
.
as
it
did
with
the
Apostle
Paul
,
that
the
more
wee
loue
our
people
,
and
the
more
wee
endeuour
to
doe
them
good
,
the
lesse
we
are
loued
againe
.
Let
them
therefore
bee
admonished
to
reforme
themselues
herein
,
and
to
bee
affected
with
their
Pastours
with
that
loue
and
kindnesse
that
is
due
vnto
them
.
And
the
rather
,
because
it
will
be
most
profitable
to
themselues
:
For
if
they
loue
the
person
of
the
Minister
,
they
will
a
great
deale
more
willingly
imbrace
his
doctrine
,
and
so
it
will
doe
them
more
good
.
There
is
nothing
more
pleasing
to
them
that
are
sicke
,
Sanec
.
lib.
4.
declam.
5.
then
to
be
healed
of
whom
they
would
.
Secondly
,
they
must
be
obedient
to
their
doctrin
,
as
the
Apostle
exhorteth
,
Heb.
13.17
.
Obey
them
that
haue
the
ouersight
of
you
,
and
submit
your selues
,
&c.
And
that
for
their
owne
good
.
For
I
pray
you
,
what
doe
the
Ministers
gaine
by
your
obedience
?
A
comfort
,
I
confesse
,
it
is
to
them
,
to
see
so
good
fruite
of
their
labours
:
but
all
the
profit
and
benefit
will
be
yours
in
the
end
.
And
againe
,
otherwise
they
are
more
hardly
taught
and
healed
.
For
as
the
shepheard
cannot
easily
cure
the
sheepe
,
that
spurneth
and
kicketh
with
the
heeles
:
and
as
the
patient
that
struggleth
,
doth
more
hardly
receiue
a
medicine
:
so
the
soule
of
man
cannot
bee
cured
,
vnlesse
it
doe
willingly
,
and
of
the
owne
accord
submit
it selfe
vnto
discipline
.
Thirdly
,
they
must
communicate
with
them
of
their
goods
,
and
allow
them
competent
maintenance
,
that
so
without
worldly
distractions
,
they
may
more
chearefully
attend
their
studies
.
And
there
is
great
reason
for
this
of
all
other
duties
.
Luke
10.7
.
For
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
saith
,
The
labourer
is
worthie
of
his
wages
.
And
this
is
part
of
that
double
honour
,
which
the
Apostle
saith
,
is
due
to
the
Minister
;
and
therefore
he
applieth
that
precept
of
the
law
to
that
purpose
,
1.
Tim.
5.17
,
18.
1.
Cor.
9.14
.
Thou
shalt
not
mouzell
the
mouth
of
the
oxe
that
treadeth
out
the
corne
.
And
,
the
Lord
hath
ordained
,
that
they
that
preach
the
Gospell
,
should
liue
of
the
Gospell
.
Gal.
6.6
.
And
therefore
the
Apostle
giueth
commandement
to
all
that
are
taught
in
the
Word
,
that
they
make
him
that
hath
taught
them
,
partaker
of
all
their
goods
.
And
in
another
place
he
saith
,
There
is
no
proportion
betweene
the
maintenance
which
the
Ministers
receiue
of
the
people
,
and
that
which
they
afford
them
backe
againe
.
If
we
,
saith
he
,
1.
Cor.
9.11
.
haue
sowne
vnto
you
spirituall
things
,
is
it
a
great
matter
if
we
reape
your
carnall
things
?
But
our
people
are
so
farre
from
giuing
vs
maintenance
of
themselues
,
as
that
they
vse
all
meanes
they
can
,
to
with-hold
that
maintenance
from
vs
which
the
Law
hath
appointed
.
Luke
18.12
.
That
proud
Pharisee
made
his
boast
,
and
it
may
bee
truely
,
that
hee
gaue
tithes
of
all
that
euer
hee
possessed
.
But
our
people
in
many
places
defraude
vs
by
one
deuice
or
other
.
Eyther
they
haue
some
Popish
custome
to
cut
off
our
Tithes
in
kinde
,
or
they
haue
out-grounds
in
other
Parishes
,
and
a
thousand
other
trickes
,
whereby
they
can
defeat
vs
at
their
pleasure
.
As
it
is
strange
to
see
,
how
ingenious
&
witty
the
diuel
hath
made
euen
the
simplest
of
them
to
beguile
their
Minister
.
But
let
them
take
heed
that
their
crafty
wit
beguile
not
themselues
in
the
end
.
Let
them
beware
,
that
the
cry
of
the
Lords
labourers
,
James
5.4
.
whose
hire
they
haue
kept
back
by
fraud
,
do
not
enter
into
the
eares
of
the
Lord
of
hosts
.
We
should
know
,
that
Gods
ministers
ought
to
be
maintained
,
though
the
Law
had
appointed
them
no
tithes
at
al
for
their
maintenance
.
And
we
see
that
the
most
vnworthie
Ministers
that
are
,
will
haue
their
tithes
to
the
vttermost
:
yea
with
greater
rigour
then
they
that
toile
and
take
most
paines
for
them
.
And
therefore
,
let
all
the
people
of
God
be
exhorted
conscionably
,
to
giue
the
portion
that
is
due
to
their
Ministers
,
lest
they
bee
driuen
for
want
thereof
to
forsake
the
house
of
God
,
as
they
did
in
the
time
of
Nehemiah
,
chap.
13.
vers.
10
,
11.
and
as
they
doe
at
this
day
in
many
places
of
the
land
.
In
a
word
,
let
them
be
carefull
to
performe
this
and
all
other
their
duties
,
with
such
alacrity
and
chearefulnesse
,
as
that
their
Ministers
may
be
incouraged
to
doe
their
duties
backe
againe
with
ioy
,
Heb.
13.17
.
and
not
with
griefe
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
:
For
doubtlesse
the
griefe
which
a
Minister
shall
conceiue
from
the
way-ward
and
peruerse
disposition
of
his
people
,
cannot
chuse
but
greatly
daunt
his
spirits
,
and
make
him
altogether
listlesse
to
preach
vnto
them
.
And
indeed
what
heart
can
a
man
haue
to
take
paines
with
such
a
people
,
as
neither
regard
him
nor
his
Ministery
,
if
that
necessitie
which
God
hath
laid
vpon
him
,
1.
Cor.
9.16
.
as
S.
Paul
saith
,
did
not
compell
him
?
Last
of
all
,
it
may
serue
to
admonish
all
true
Christians
to
mourne
in
their
soules
,
and
with
bitternesse
of
heart
to
bewaile
the
miserie
of
so
many
thousands
of
their
poore
brethren
,
who
are
like
to
perish
in
many
places
,
because
there
is
none
to
teach
them
knowledge
.
Hos.
4.6
.
Is
it
not
a
lamentable
thing
,
to
see
so
many
townes
for
want
of
preaching
Ministers
,
Isaiah
9.2
.
(
who
are
the
Candlesticks
to
hold
foorth
the
light
of
the
Word
vnto
them
)
sitting
in
darknesse
,
and
in
the
shaddow
of
death
?
Our
Sauiour
Christ
,
when
he
saw
the
people
of
his
time
,
Matth.
9.36
.
that
they
were
dispersed
and
scattered
abroad
,
as
sheepe
hauing
no
shepheard
,
his
very
bowels
were
moued
with
compassion
towards
them
.
And
if
we
be
led
by
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
we
cannot
but
be
affected
with
commiseration
,
in
regard
of
the
like
miserie
of
the
people
of
our
times
,
that
haue
no
guides
,
but
blind
guides
,
to
leade
them
into
the
ditch
.
Mat.
15.14
.
Would
it
not
grieue
any
mans
heart
in
the
world
to
see
a
goodly
haruest
of
croppe
,
like
to
rot
vpon
the
earth
for
want
of
Reapers
to
gather
it
into
the
barnes
?
Mat.
9.37
.
Iohn
4.35
.
Euen
so
,
the
Lord
hath
a
great
haruest
,
and
the
regions
are
white
alreadie
,
as
Christ
saith
:
What
a
griefe
then
ought
it
to
bee
to
euery
good
heart
,
to
consider
,
that
there
are
so
few
labourers
to
thrust
in
the
Sickle
?
The
people
of
God
in
many
places
,
begin
to
feele
the
want
of
the
Word
,
and
as
new-borne
babes
,
1.
Pet.
2.2
.
they
desire
the
sincere
milk
of
it
,
that
they
may
grow
by
it
.
But
alas
,
what
a
pittifull
thing
is
it
,
that
their
Ministers
are
either
drie
nurses
,
and
haue
no
milke
at
all
in
their
brests
,
to
giue
them
sucke
:
Lam.
4.3
,
4.
or
if
they
haue
,
they
are
become
through
idlenesse
more
hard-hearted
then
the
Dragons
,
and
more
cruell
then
the
Ostriches
in
the
Wildernesse
:
they
will
not
draw
out
their
brests
to
feede
them
,
but
euen
suffer
the
tongue
of
Gods
poore
sucklings
to
cleaue
to
the
roofe
of
their
mouth
for
thirst
.
And
therefore
,
to
conclude
this
point
,
let
euery
one
of
vs
bee
stirred
vp
in
a
fellow-feeling
of
this
great
miserie
,
to
pray
to
God
in
the
behalfe
of
our
brethren
,
and
euen
to
importune
him
,
and
giue
him
no
rest
,
vntill
hee
bee
pleased
to
set
ouer
euerie
Congregation
such
a
Minister
,
as
may
bee
apt
and
able
to
teach
and
instruct
them
in
the
way
of
godlinesse
.
That
needeth
not
to
bee
ashamed
.
]
The
word
properly
signifieth
,
that
needeth
not
to
blush
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ab
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Rom.
6.21
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
And
so
the
Apostle
vseth
it
an
another
place
,
where
hee
saith
,
What
fruite
had
yee
then
in
those
things
,
whereof
ye
are
now
ashamed
?
Heere
then
hee
exhorteth
TIMOTHEVS
to
keepe
a
good
conscience
in
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
that
when
hee
shall
come
to
giue
account
vnto
God
,
his
face
may
not
becouered
with
shame
:
for
where
shame
is
,
there
is
guiltinesse
.
And
thus
doth
Saint
Hierome
expound
it
:
Liue
so
,
saith
hee
,
lest
thy
wordes
wanting
deedes
,
bee
confounded
:
for
the
doctrine
,
is
an
ornament
to
the
life
,
and
the
worke
is
an
ostablishment
to
the
life
,
and
the
worke
is
an
establishment
of
the
doctrine
.
And
Aquinas
,
The
doctrine
,
saith
hee
,
which
he
preacheth
with
his
mouth
,
let
him
confirme
with
his
work
,
which
if
he
do
not
,
he
is
worthy
of
shame
and
confusion
.
And
Gorram
interpreteth
it
,
one
that
needeth
not
blush
to
consesse
the
Gospel
for
his
euil
life
.
Anselmus
readeth
it
vnreproueable
.
For
,
saith
he
,
from
a
reproof
riseth
confusion
to
him
that
is
reproued
,
and
he
that
cannot
be
reproued
,
is
not
confounded
.
As
if
he
should
say
,
Shew
thy selfe
such
a
one
in
al
thy
works
,
as
in
none
of
them
thou
maist
sustaine
the
confusion
of
shame
.
From
hence
then
our
instruction
may
be
this
,
That
it
is
not
enough
for
a
minister
to
preach
sound
doctrine
,
vnlesse
he
be
blamelesse
in
his
life
.
And
therefore
our
Sauior
Christ
in
that
excellent
prayer
of
his
for
his
Disciples
,
because
they
were
to
bee
Ministers
of
the
Word
,
prayeth
for
them
to
his
Father
;
Iohn
17.17
.
Sanctifie
them
with
thy
truth
,
thy
Word
is
the
truth
.
And
indeede
how
can
they
cleanse
others
,
that
are
vncleane
themselues
?
how
can
they
free
others
from
pollution
,
that
are
polluted
themselues
?
according
to
that
saying
of
Cyprian
:
Lib.
1.
Epist.
1
2.
who
can
giue
that
which
himselfe
hath
not
?
And
the
Apostle
exhorteth
Timotheus
,
1.
Tim.
4.16
.
to
take
heede
to
himselfe
,
and
to
doctrine
.
Attend
first
to
thy selfe
,
and
then
to
the
teaching
of
other
:
whereupon
the
ordinary
Glosse
saith
,
He
doth
not
say
,
Attend
to
doctrine
and
to
thy self
:
but
,
Attend
to
thy selfe
,
and
vnto
doctrine
:
first
,
take
heed
how
thou
liuest
,
and
then
how
thou
teachest
:
for
as
Caluin
well
noteth
,
doctrine
will
doe
little
good
,
if
holinesse
of
life
bee
not
answerable
.
And
great
reason
is
there
that
Ministers
of
all
other
men
should
bee
holy
.
For
first
,
they
administer
the
holy
things
of
God
:
Alex.
ab
Alex.
genial
.
dier.
●
.
4
cap.
17.
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
they
are
disposers
of
the
secrets
of
God
.
They
beare
the
vessels
of
the
Lord
,
as
the
Prophet
saith
,
and
that
after
a
more
peculiar
manner
:
and
therefore
it
behooueth
them
especially
to
bee
cleane
,
Isay
52.11
.
And
this
the
poore
Heathen
people
,
in
their
blind
and
superstitious
seruice
of
their
Idols
,
had
a
very
great
care
of
.
Sabellicus
Ennead.
1.
l.
3.
It
was
one
of
their
Pontificall
lawes
:
Det
them
come
chastly
to
the
gods
,
let
them
vse
pietie
.
They
that
do
otherwise
,
God
himselfe
will
reuenge
it
.
The
Priests
of
Egypt
,
euery
third
day
did
shaue
their
bodies
,
lest
any
filthinesse
appeare
,
Plutarch
.
in
Quaest.
Centuriat
.
Roman
.
when
they
were
offering
their
sacrifices
.
And
those
Priests
that
were
troubled
with
Byles
and
Botches
,
were
forbidden
to
study
Diuination
:
either
because
it
becommeth
not
them
to
haue
any
vlcer
in
their
mindes
,
that
apply
themselues
to
heauenly
things
:
or
else
if
they
vse
not
a
diseased
beast
for
sacrifice
,
nor
diseased
birds
for
Diuination
:
much
more
must
they
auoid
such
things
in
themselues
.
If
these
Heathen
men
had
this
care
for
the
seruice
of
their
false
gods
,
which
were
but
stockes
and
stones
,
the
workes
of
their
owne
hands
:
how
much
more
ought
wee
to
be
carefull
of
all
puritie
and
cleannesse
in
the
worship
of
the
true
God
,
Heb.
12.29
.
Leu.
10.3
.
who
is
a
consuming
fire
against
sinne
and
sinners
,
and
who
will
be
sanctified
in
them
that
come
neere
him
,
or
else
he
will
glorifie
himselfe
in
their
confusion
.
It
was
forbidden
in
the
Law
,
Leu.
21.17
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
21.
that
whosoener
had
any
blemishes
,
should
not
prease
to
offer
the
bread
of
his
God
:
as
if
hee
were
blind
,
or
lame
,
or
had
a
flat
nose
,
or
any
misshapen
member
,
&c.
And
howsoeuer
this
ceremonie
be
ceased
,
and
be
no
more
in
vse
:
yet
the
equitie
of
it
remaineth
still
,
namely
,
that
they
that
haue
blemishes
in
their
liues
,
or
are
mis-shapen
in
their
soules
,
should
not
be
admitted
to
serue
the
Lord
,
in
the
ministerie
of
his
Word
.
Secondly
,
a
Minister
must
goe
before
his
people
in
the
example
of
a
godly
life
.
It
was
the
exhortation
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
to
his
Disciples
:
Matth.
5.6
.
Let
your
light
so
shine
before
men
,
that
they
may
see
your
good
workes
,
and
glorifie
your
Father
which
is
in
heauen
.
As
in
the
Orbes
and
Circles
of
the
Heauens
,
the
highest
Spheare
moueth
all
the
rest
;
and
therefore
is
called
the
first
Moouer
:
So
the
Minister
being
highest
in
the
Church
,
should
by
his
example
moue
and
draw
them
that
are
vnder
him
vnto
holinesse
.
For
the
people
in
our
times
will
say
to
vs
,
as
they
said
to
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
What
doest
thou
worke
,
that
we
may
see
it
,
and
beleeue
thee
?
Not
what
doest
thou
teach
?
Iohn
6.30
.
And
therefore
as
it
is
said
of
him
,
that
first
he
began
to
doe
,
and
then
to
teach
,
Act.
1.1
.
that
he
was
first
mightie
in
deed
,
and
then
in
word
,
according
as
Cyprian
saith
,
Serm.
5.
de
lapsis
.
Luke
24.19
.
Christ
was
a
Teacher
in
words
,
and
a
performer
in
deeds
;
teaching
what
ought
to
be
done
,
and
doing
whatsoeuer
he
taught
.
And
it
is
said
of
Ezra
,
Ezra
.
7.10
.
that
first
he
prepared
his
head
to
seeke
the
Law
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
doe
it
,
and
then
to
teach
the
precepts
and
iudgements
in
Israel
.
So
must
it
bee
with
vs
,
that
wee
may
say
with
the
Apostle
PAVL
:
Phil.
3.17
.
Brethren
,
be
followers
of
me
,
and
looke
on
them
that
walke
,
so
as
ye
haue
vs
for
an
example
.
And
,
Thinke
of
those
things
which
ye
haue
both
learned
,
&
4
,
8
,
9.
and
receiued
,
1.
Tim.
4.12
.
and
heard
,
and
seent
in
me
.
And
to
this
purpose
the
Apostle
exhorteth
TIMOTHEVS
,
to
be
vnto
them
that
beleeue
an
ensample
,
in
word
,
in
conuersation
,
in
loue
,
in
spirit
,
Tit.
2.7
.
in
faith
,
and
in
purenesse
.
And
hee
biddeth
TITVS
,
aboue
all
things
to
shew
himselfe
an
example
of
good
works
,
&c.
And
the
Apostle
Peter
exhorteth
all
ministers
,
1.
Pet.
5.3
.
so
to
carry
themselues
,
as
they
may
bee
ensamples
to
the
flocks
.
In
all
which
places
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
the
word
that
is
vsed
,
doth
signifie
,
that
the
life
of
a
Minister
should
be
such
a
patterne
of
godlinesse
,
as
that
it
may
set
a
stampe
,
and
an
impression
thereof
,
as
it
were
vpon
his
people
.
Men
wil
sooner
learne
of
their
Ministers
by
their
eyes
,
then
they
will
doe
by
their
eares
.
For
they
commonly
beleeue
their
eyes
,
Seneca
epist
6.
better
then
they
doe
their
eares
.
And
it
is
a
long
course
to
teach
by
precepts
,
but
short
and
effectuall
by
examples
.
When
the
people
of
Israel
were
to
passe
ouer
Iorden
into
the
land
of
promise
,
the
Priests
that
bare
the
Arke
of
the
Coxenant
,
went
before
them
:
Iosh.
3.15
,
16
,
17.
So
must
the
Ministers
goe
before
their
people
in
the
iourney
to
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
.
And
indeede
,
Doctr.
Chr.
lib.
4.
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
,
though
they
profit
many
by
saying
that
which
they
doe
not
:
yet
they
would
profit
a
great
many
more
by
doing
that
which
they
say
.
It
is
said
of
Iohn
Baptist
,
that
he
was
the
voice
of
him
that
crieth
in
the
wildernesse
.
Iobn
1
23.
Dominica
3.
aduentus
.
Whereupon
Stapleton
well
obserueth
,
that
he
had
not
onely
a
well-sounding
voice
,
but
also
he
was
a
voice
.
Whatsoeuer
was
in
him
,
namely
,
his
food
,
his
apparrell
,
his
habitation
,
and
his
whole
life
,
was
a
voice
that
cried
and
proclaimed
repentance
,
mortification
and
holinesse
.
His
life
first
cried
,
before
his
preaching
.
The
same
order
should
a
Preacher
obserue
,
that
first
he
be
a
voice
,
and
then
lift
vp
his
voice
.
They
whose
liues
are
not
answerable
to
their
doctrine
,
haue
a
voice
indeed
,
but
an
emptie
one
,
like
sounding
brasse
,
or
a
tinckling
Cymball
,
1.
Plutarch
.
in
Apotheg
.
vulgar
.
Lcc.
num.
Cor.
13.1
.
but
they
are
not
a
voice
,
or
at
least
,
a
man
may
say
of
them
,
as
the
Country
fellow
said
of
the
Nightingale
,
when
hee
had
stripped
her
out
of
her
feathers
,
Thou
art
onely
a
voice
,
and
nothing
else
.
This
was
it
that
made
Herod
reuerence
Iohn
Baptist
so
much
,
Marke
6
,
20.
and
heare
him
so
gladly
,
not
that
he
was
a
good
Preacher
:
but
chiefly
that
he
was
a
iust
man
,
and
an
holy
.
The
Heathen
Philosophers
haue
made
three
markes
of
a
good
Teacher
:
first
,
that
he
teach
not
sleightly
and
negligently
,
but
diligently
,
and
with
due
premeditation
.
Secondly
,
that
he
obserue
a
good
order
and
methode
in
teaching
,
that
his
hearers
may
vnderstand
him
.
And
lastly
,
that
his
life
be
answerable
to
his
words
and
profession
.
Whereunto
agreeth
that
saying
of
Saint
Augustine
,
Confess
lib.
10.
It
is
to
little
purpose
for
a
Minister
to
command
his
hearers
in
words
,
if
he
doe
not
also
goe
before
them
in
deeds
.
De
Consid.
lib.
4.
And
therefore
Bernard
willeth
Eugenius
to
consider
,
that
it
behooueth
him
to
bee
a
forme
of
righteousnesse
,
a
mirrour
of
holinesse
,
and
a
patterne
of
pietie
.
So
should
it
be
with
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
,
Cyp.
lib.
3.
epist.
1.
that
they
may
exhort
their
people
not
by
words
only
,
but
by
deeds
,
not
onely
by
the
incitement
of
their
speech
and
voice
,
but
chiefly
bee
the
example
of
their
faith
and
vertue
.
And
indeed
if
it
be
expedient
for
all
men
to
liue
orderly
,
Cyr.
lib
1.
epi.
11
much
more
doth
it
stand
with
reason
,
that
Ministers
be
carefull
that
way
,
whose
manners
and
conuersation
should
be
a
lesson
and
an
example
vnto
others
.
For
how
can
they
see
integritie
and
continency
kept
,
if
corruption
,
and
instruction
of
vice
begin
to
proceede
from
themselues
?
And
therefore
,
to
shut
vp
all
in
a
word
,
Lib.
1.
epist.
11.
as
Cyprian
well
counselleth
,
let
euery
Minister
labour
to
fulfill
in
deed
,
that
which
before
he
hath
taught
in
word
,
that
so
he
may
be
the
greatest
in
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
as
Christ
hath
promised
,
saying
,
Matth.
5
19.
Whosoeuer
shall
obserue
and
teach
these
words
,
the
same
shall
be
called
great
in
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
.
This
doctrine
hath
a
double
vse
:
first
,
for
the
Ministers
:
secondly
,
for
the
people
.
For
the
Ministers
,
it
serueth
first
to
reproue
allthose
that
are
carelesse
this
way
,
who
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
said
of
the
Pharises
,
Say
,
and
doe
not
:
Matth.
23.3
.
As
God
knoweth
,
there
are
so
many
such
in
these
daies
,
that
we
may
well
vse
that
speech
of
Bernard
;
Christ
said
of
his
Disciples
:
Declamat
.
Haue
not
I
chosen
you
twelue
,
and
one
of
you
is
a
Diuell
?
But
I
would
there
were
at
this
day
among
twelue
one
Peter
.
And
it
is
true
of
a
number
that
Gregorie
saith
,
Cur.
Pastoral
.
that
which
they
pierce
into
by
their
vnderstanding
,
they
tread
vnder
their
feete
by
their
liuing
:
they
teach
on
the
sudden
,
that
which
they
haue
learned
,
not
by
practice
,
but
by
meditation
;
and
that
which
they
preach
in
words
,
they
impugne
with
their
manners
.
These
are
they
that
lay
heauy
burdens
on
other
mens
backes
,
but
themselues
will
not
moone
them
with
one
of
their
fingers
.
Mat.
23.4
.
With
what
force
can
they
reprooue
that
in
others
,
which
they
practise
themselues
?
Cic
prolege
Manil.
The
Heathen
man
could
say
,
that
hee
cannot
be
seuere
in
iudging
others
,
that
would
not
haue
others
seuere
Iudges
against
himselfe
.
And
,
he
that
taketh
vpon
him
to
correct
other
mens
manners
,
and
to
reproue
their
sinnes
,
who
will
beare
with
him
,
if
he
decline
neuer
so
little
from
the
care
and
conscience
of
his
dutie
?
Idem
in
Verem
.
lib.
3.
And
in
the
same
place
,
he
is
not
to
be
suffered
,
that
is
taken
himselfe
in
the
same
fault
,
which
he
reprooueth
in
another
.
The
snuffers
in
the
Tabernacle
,
Exod.
37.23
.
which
were
to
top
the
Lampes
,
and
to
make
them
burne
brighter
,
by
Gods
commandement
were
of
pure
gold
,
to
teach
vs
,
that
they
that
by
reprehension
,
must
cause
others
to
giue
more
light
,
must
be
pure
and
cleane
themselues
.
Otherwise
,
they
are
like
water
in
the
Font
,
which
washeth
others
,
and
it selfe
descendeth
into
the
sincke
:
or
like
a
file
,
that
smootheth
other
things
,
and
it selfe
remaineth
rough
:
or
like
Noahs
Carpenters
,
who
made
an
Arke
to
saue
others
from
drowning
,
and
themselues
perished
in
the
waters
.
Or
like
impotent
beggars
by
the
High-way
side
,
who
can
well
informe
trauellers
in
the
way
,
and
yet
neuer
walke
it
themselues
:
or
like
him
that
carrieth
a
candle
behind
him
,
to
giue
light
to
them
that
come
after
,
but
himselfe
falleth
into
the
mire
:
or
like
a
lame
man
,
who
so
long
as
hee
sitteth
still
,
seemeth
to
bee
comely
and
well-fauoured
:
but
assoone
as
hee
beginneth
to
walke
,
he
appeareth
deformed
.
So
these
Ministers
(
as
is
commonly
said
in
disgrace
of
them
)
so
long
as
they
are
in
the
Pulpit
,
are
good
men
:
but
when
they
come
downe
,
they
are
most
wicked
:
Psal.
115.5.6.7
.
or
they
are
like
Dauids
idols
,
in
this
respect
also
.
They
haue
all
the
instruments
of
vertue
,
but
they
vse
them
not
.
They
haue
eyes
to
see
that
which
is
good
,
but
they
follow
the
worse
:
they
haue
the
feete
of
their
affections
,
but
they
are
not
mooued
to
good
:
they
haue
mouthes
,
but
such
as
haue
no
taste
of
godlinesse
.
In
a
word
,
they
haue
IACOBS
voice
,
and
ESAVS
hands
:
Genes.
27.22
.
how
can
the
poore
people
haue
any
hope
their
prayers
shall
be
heard
,
when
such
prophane
persons
as
these
,
are
their
mouth
to
God
?
especially
seeing
our
Sauiour
hath
said
,
Iohn
9.31
.
that
God
heareth
not
sinners
.
Besides
,
their
example
doth
wonderfull
much
hurt
to
their
people
:
If
the
trumpet
giue
an
vncertaine
sound
,
1.
Cor.
14.8
.
Isai.
58.1
.
who
shal
prepare
himselfe
to
the
battell
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
?
The
voice
of
a
Minister
is
a
trumpet
,
and
it
giueth
an
vncertaine
sound
,
when
it
is
not
confirmed
by
the
testimony
of
his
vertues
.
In
such
a
case
no
man
will
prepare
himselfe
,
but
rather
euery
one
will
laugh
him
to
scoine
,
saying
,
Rom.
2.21
.
Thou
that
teachest
another
,
teachest
not
thyselfe
?
&c.
If
hee
that
is
appointed
to
bee
a
guide
in
the
way
,
shall
tell
the
traueller
,
that
he
must
goe
one
way
,
and
himselfe
goe
another
way
.
The
poore
traueller
,
knowing
him
to
be
skilfull
in
the
right
way
,
will
rather
follow
his
steppes
,
then
his
words
.
In
like
manner
,
the
Minister
that
is
set
to
bee
a
guide
in
the
way
to
heauen
,
if
hee
shall
tell
men
the
right
way
,
but
himselfe
walke
the
way
to
hell
:
If
hee
shall
bid
them
goe
by
the
way
of
mercie
,
but
himselfe
goe
by
the
way
of
crueltie
;
if
hee
bid
them
goe
by
the
way
of
temperance
,
but
himselfe
goe
the
way
of
drunkennesse
;
if
hee
bid
them
goe
the
way
of
chastitie
,
but
himselfe
goe
the
way
of
vncleannes
and
whoredome
,
it
must
needs
be
a
great
stumbling
blocke
vnto
the
poore
people
.
That
which
Seneca
,
though
an
Heathen
man
,
spake
of
the
Philosophers
of
his
time
,
may
fitly
be
applied
to
many
Ministers
of
these
daies
.
Epist.
108.
I
iudge
none
,
saith
hee
,
to
deserue
worse
of
all
mankind
,
then
they
that
haue
learned
Philosophie
,
as
a
certaine
art
set
to
sale
,
that
liue
otherwise
,
then
they
teach
others
to
liue
.
They
set
foorth
themselues
as
examples
of
vnprofitable
learning
,
being
subiect
to
euery
vice
,
which
they
inueigh
against
in
others
.
Such
a
Teacher
can
no
more
benefit
me
,
then
the
Pilot
that
is
readie
to
vomit
in
a
tempest
.
Epist.
123.
And
in
another
place
;
The
sicke
partie
hath
no
hope
of
health
,
whom
the
Phisician
moueth
to
intemperance
.
These
men
,
looke
how
much
they
build
with
their
doctrine
,
so
much
they
pull
downe
with
their
ill
life
;
if
so
be
he
can
build
any
thing
that
liueth
ill
:
for
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
;
De
Doct.
Chr.
lib.
4.
There
are
a
number
,
that
seeke
for
a
defence
of
their
cuill
life
,
euen
from
their
Teachers
themselues
,
answering
in
their
heart
,
or
it
may
bee
,
breaking
out
into
speech
,
and
saying
,
That
which
thou
biddest
me
doe
,
why
doest
thou
it
not
thy selfe
?
And
so
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
they
doe
not
heare
him
obediently
,
that
heareth
not
himselfe
:
and
the
Word
of
God
that
is
preached
vnto
them
,
they
contemne
together
with
the
Preacher
.
Thus
by
their
faults
,
Cypr.
l.
1.
cp.
11.
they
make
an
example
of
ruine
and
downefall
to
other
.
As
the
Prophet
Ieremiah
complaineth
of
the
false
prophets
,
that
by
their
sinfull
and
filthy
courses
,
Jer.
23.14
,
15.
they
did
strengthen
the
hands
of
the
wicked
,
that
none
could
returne
from
his
wickednesse
.
Nay
,
from
them
wickednesse
went
forth
into
all
the
world
.
Master
Green
ham
.
Hence
is
it
,
that
one
calleth
ill
Ministers
the
deuils
hawks
,
and
his
best
factors
;
because
there
is
none
that
doth
more
build
vp
his
Kingdom
then
they
.
As
God
knoweth
,
we
see
for
the
most
part
,
that
such
Parishes
as
are
pestered
with
them
,
are
little
better
then
the
suburbes
of
hell
.
For
alas
,
is
there
any
thing
to
be
found
(
except
it
be
in
some
two
or
three
,
in
whose
hearts
the
Lord
hath
wrought
a
hungring
and
thirsting
after
the
Word
)
but
horrible
swearing
and
blasphemy
,
beastly
swilling
and
drinking
(
the
Minister
being
not
ashamed
nor
afraid
,
to
make
both
himselfe
and
others
drunke
,
Ser
n.
de
chrietate
.
as
Augustine
saith
)
filthy
vncleannesse
and
whoredom
,
notorious
prophanation
of
the
Sabbath
,
&
c
?
So
that
though
the
prouerbe
seldome
hold
in
the
better
part
,
yet
it
is
alwaies
true
in
the
worse
part
(
the
force
of
our
corruptions
swaying
vs
that
way
)
Like
Priest
,
like
people
.
So
true
is
that
saying
of
Saint
Cyprian
:
lib.
●
.
p.
21.
The
ruine
of
the
ouerseer
,
is
most
pernicious
to
the
downefall
of
them
that
follow
him
.
Againe
,
such
Ministers
doe
exceedingly
hurt
themselues
,
and
weaken
the
credlt
of
their
ministerie
,
and
make
euen
the
doctrine
which
they
teach
to
be
suspected
.
Saint
Augustine
maketh
it
the
first
degree
of
abuses
,
De
decem
abus
.
gradib
.
when
a
Preacher
is
without
good
workes
,
neglecting
that
in
his
actions
,
which
hee
teacheth
in
his
speech
.
For
the
hearers
doe
easily
contemne
the
sayings
,
when
they
see
the
workes
of
the
Preacher
differ
from
the
words
of
his
preaching
.
For
the
authoritie
of
a
Preacher
is
neuer
made
effectuall
,
vnlesse
by
the
practice
of
his
worke
,
hee
fasten
it
in
the
heart
of
his
hearers
.
And
in
another
place
he
saith
,
De
doctr.
Christ
.
lib.
4.
The
life
of
the
Teacher
is
of
greater
force
to
make
the
people
heare
him
obediently
,
then
the
greatest
waight
of
words
:
whereunto
agreeth
that
speech
of
Gregorie
:
His
doctrine
is
contemned
,
whose
life
is
despised
.
And
no
maruell
if
the
people
giue
no
credit
to
such
a
mans
preaching
,
because
it
is
like
a
writing
without
a
seale
.
And
as
in
ciuill
iudgement
,
the
testimony
of
one
man
is
not
beleeued
,
but
in
the
mouth
of
two
or
three
witnesses
,
Matth.
18.16
.
euery
word
must
be
confirmed
:
so
in
preaching
,
men
doe
not
beleeue
the
voice
of
the
Preacher
onely
,
vnlesse
it
be
further
confirmed
by
the
testimony
of
his
life
.
As
Gregorie
saith
;
The
authoritie
of
teaching
is
lost
,
when
the
voice
is
not
helped
by
the
worke
.
A
Minister
by
teaching
well
,
and
liuing
well
,
instructeth
the
people
how
to
liue
:
but
by
teaching
well
,
and
liuing
ill
,
he
instructeth
God
how
to
condemne
him
.
Nay
,
he
condemneth
himselfe
by
his
owne
voice
;
as
it
is
said
in
the
Gospel
,
Luke
19.22
.
Of
thine
owne
mouth
will
I
iudge
thee
,
thou
euill
saruant
.
Such
a
man
carrieth
a
candle
before
himselfe
to
shew
others
his
filthinesse
.
He
maketh
his
light
to
shine
before
men
,
that
they
may
see
his
euill
workes
,
and
so
despise
both
him
and
his
doctrine
.
De
consider
.
lib.
2
It
is
a
monstrous
thing
,
saith
Bernard
,
for
a
man
to
haue
the
highest
seat
,
and
the
lowest
life
,
loftie
words
,
and
idle
hands
,
much
speech
,
and
no
fruite
.
Let
euery
one
of
vs
therefore
take
heede
,
that
our
ill
life
confute
not
our
good
preaching
.
Happy
is
hee
,
who
if
his
doctrine
be
refused
,
can
yet
say
in
some
measure
with
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
Iobn
5.36
.
&
10.38
.
The
workes
that
I
doe
,
beare
witnes
of
me
,
that
the
Father
bath
sent
me
.
And
againe
:
Though
yee
beleene
not
me
,
yet
beleeue
my
workes
,
&c.
Finally
,
the
sinnes
of
a
Minister
are
more
grieuous
,
then
the
sinnes
of
other
men
.
The
waights
of
the
Sanctuarie
were
double
as
heauie
as
the
ordinarie
waights
of
Marchants
:
signifying
,
that
the
sinnes
of
Ministers
should
bee
waighed
with
heauier
waights
,
and
so
receiue
heauier
iudgements
,
then
the
sinnes
of
ordinarie
persons
.
Leuit.
4.3
.
12.13
&c.
And
therefore
in
the
Law
,
there
was
as
great
a
Sacrifice
appointed
to
bee
offered
,
for
the
expiation
of
the
sinne
of
the
Priest
,
as
of
all
the
people
.
And
not
without
iust
cause
:
For
a
Minister
hath
,
or
should
haue
more
knowledge
then
the
people
haue
.
Now
where
there
is
more
knowledge
,
there
the
transgressour
is
liable
to
greater
blame
.
As
our
Sauiour
Christ
saith
,
Vnto
whomsoener
much
is
giuen
,
Luke
12.48
.
of
him
shall
bee
much
required
.
And
besides
,
the
excellencie
of
his
place
is
greater
.
And
therefore
,
Bern.
de
consid
.
lib.
2.
if
his
conuersation
bee
lewde
and
wicked
,
the
more
excellent
hee
is
,
the
more
deformed
hee
shall
appeare
in
the
sight
of
all
men
.
As
a
little
staine
of
incke
is
more
seene
in
faire
white
paper
,
then
a
great
one
in
browne
paper
:
so
a
small
fault
in
a
Minister
is
more
notorious
,
then
a
great
one
in
another
man
.
The
sinne
of
a
Minister
is
like
the
leprosie
of
Vzziah
,
that
rose
vp
in
his
fore-head
,
and
was
in
euerie
bodies
sight
,
2.
Chron.
26.19
.
but
the
sinne
of
another
man
is
like
the
leprosie
of
Moses
in
his
hand
,
which
hee
put
in
his
bosome
,
and
so
kept
it
from
being
seene
,
Exod.
4.6
.
Not
that
other
mens
sinnes
also
are
not
seene
,
but
because
they
are
not
so
much
obserued
,
as
the
sinnes
of
the
Minister
.
A
second
vse
of
this
doctrine
to
vs
that
be
Ministers
,
is
to
excite
and
stirre
vs
vp
to
endeuour
,
that
there
may
bee
an
agreement
betweene
our
hearts
,
our
mouthes
,
and
our
hands
,
Tract.
2.
de
babit
.
Virg.
that
as
Cyprian
said
of
Virgins
,
when
men
snal
see
our
conuersation
,
they
neede
not
doubt
whether
we
bee
Ministers
or
no.
And
herein
wee
should
labour
to
imitate
God
himselfe
,
whose
seruants
wee
are
,
of
whom
Salomon
saich
,
1.
King
.
8.24
.
that
whatsoeuer
hee
spake
with
his
mouth
,
hee
performed
it
with
his
hand
.
It
is
an
excellent
thing
,
when
men
shall
truly
say
of
a
Minister
,
Seneca
,
epist.
75.
that
hee
liueth
as
hee
preacheth
.
And
this
did
the
Heathen
man
require
of
the
Philosophers
of
his
time
,
that
their
speech
might
agree
with
their
life
:
for
he
,
saith
hee
,
hath
fulfilled
his
promise
,
who
is
the
same
man
,
both
when
men
see
him
,
and
when
they
heare
him
.
As
they
that
are
teachers
of
Musicke
,
doe
not
onely
giue
certaine
precepts
to
their
scholars
,
but
also
shew
them
the
practice
of
it
by
playing
before
them
themselues
:
so
the
Minister
should
not
onely
deliuer
wholesome
doctrine
to
his
people
,
but
also
shew
them
the
practice
of
it
in
his
owne
example
.
And
indeede
,
as
Hierome
writeth
,
The
house
and
conuersation
of
a
Minister
,
Ad
Heliodor
.
cpist
.
3.
being
set
as
it
were
on
a
watch-Tower
,
ought
to
bee
the
Schoole-mistresse
of
publike
discipline
.
Whatsoeuer
hee
shall
doe
,
all
his
people
will
thinke
they
may
doe
the
like
.
And
therefore
,
they
must
take
heed
hee
giue
no
cause
,
that
either
they
that
will
reproue
him
may
seeme
to
raile
vpon
him
worthily
,
or
they
that
would
imitate
him
,
may
be
compelled
to
offend
.
And
in
another
place
.
The
conuersation
of
a
Bishop
ought
to
be
such
,
as
he
may
conceiue
the
truth
in
his
heart
,
and
sound
it
forth
in
his
whole
conuersation
,
that
whatsoeuer
hee
speaketh
,
whatsoeuer
hee
doth
,
Epist.
10.
may
bee
the
instruction
of
his
people
.
And
Seneca
saith
very
wittily
of
Philosophy
,
which
is
much
more
true
of
Diuinitie
,
that
it
teacheth
men
to
do
&
not
to
say
,
and
requireth
this
of
euery
man
,
that
he
liue
after
his
own
Law
,
that
the
life
dissent
not
from
the
speech
:
but
that
the
life
in
it selfe
be
all
of
one
colour
,
without
any
disagreement
of
all
the
actions
.
Such
were
the
ancient
Fathers
which
in
former
times
flourished
in
the
Church
.
As
it
is
reported
of
Origen
,
that
he
had
not
only
perfect
Doctrine
in
his
words
,
but
also
in
his
workes
he
shewed
examples
of
perfect
discipline
,
Euseb.
Eccl.
hist.
l.
6
.
c
.
3.
and
it
was
said
of
him
,
This
is
he
,
that
hath
his
life
answerable
to
his
word
,
because
hee
doth
those
things
which
he
teacheth
.
Euseb.
l
11.
ca.
5.
And
it
is
testified
of
Gregorie
Nazianzen
,
that
he
profited
much
to
the
reformation
of
his
people
,
because
being
a
teacher
of
Religion
,
hee
taught
them
many
things
by
his
words
,
but
farre
more
by
example
:
neither
did
they
see
,
that
he
commanded
his
Disciples
any
thing
,
which
he
did
not
first
himselfe
.
And
Erasmus
writeth
of
S.
Cyprian
,
that
his
heart
burned
with
Euangelicall
pietie
,
and
his
speech
was
answerable
to
his
heart
:
he
spake
eloquent
things
,
and
yet
rather
stout
and
constant
,
then
eloquent
.
Neither
did
hee
onely
speake
,
but
liue
so
.
So
should
it
bee
with
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
of
God
.
Histor.
tripartit
.
l.
7.
cap.
8.
And
therefore
the
Emperour
Valentinian
writing
to
the
Bishops
about
the
election
of
a
new
Bishop
of
Millaine
,
saith
in
this
manner
:
You
know
plainely
,
being
taught
out
of
Gods
Word
,
what
a
manner
of
man
a
Bishop
should
be
,
namely
,
that
he
ought
not
by
word
onely
to
gouerne
his
people
,
but
by
his
life
also
;
and
to
shew
himselfe
a
follower
of
all
vertue
,
and
to
haue
his
good
conuersation
a
witnesse
of
his
doctrine
.
C●
.
in
Ver.
li.
3.
Wherunto
agreeth
that
saying
of
the
heathen
Orator
,
that
they
lay
vpon
themselues
a
Law
of
innocency
,
continencie
,
and
all
vertues
,
that
call
others
to
account
for
their
life
.
And
questionlesse
the
neglect
of
this
dutie
is
one
maine
and
principall
cause
why
the
ministery
of
a
number
succeedeth
no
better
.
For
while
they
speake
out
of
their
reading
,
and
out
of
their
iudgement
,
and
haue
no
more
care
to
practise
that
which
they
teach
,
the
people
are
rather
offended
,
and
turned
out
of
the
way
of
godlinesse
,
then
any
whit
prouoked
to
walke
in
it
.
And
hence
it
commeth
to
passe
many
times
,
that
a
man
of
no
mouth
,
Exod.
4.10
.
as
Moses
calleth
himself
,
that
is
,
of
very
meane
gifts
,
that
leadeth
a
godly
life
,
deth
more
good
in
Gods
Church
,
then
many
a
prophane
man
with
greater
learning
.
Which
is
not
spoken
to
derogate
any
thing
at
all
from
the
most
necessarie
helpes
of
learning
,
where
with
a
Minister
should
be
furnished
:
but
rather
to
stirre
vs
all
vp
,
as
we
haue
been
taught
,
to
expresse
in
our
liues
,
that
we
professe
and
teach
with
our
mouthes
.
So
would
it
come
to
passe
,
that
as
wee
should
doe
more
good
to
others
,
so
we
should
make
our
Ministery
more
comfortable
to
our selues
.
Yea
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
1.
Tim.
4.16
.
in
the
place
before
alleaged
;
We
shall
saue
our selues
,
and
them
that
heare
vs
.
The
vse
of
this
doctrine
to
the
people
,
is
to
admonish
them
,
not
to
bee
offended
,
though
sometimes
they
see
a
Minister
not
liue
as
he
teacheth
.
It
is
strange
to
see
how
curiously
many
men
with
gazing
eyes
doe
prie
into
the
liues
and
conuersations
of
Ministers
,
and
if
they
find
any
thing
neuer
so
little
amisse
,
they
stretch
it
on
the
tenter-hookes
,
and
make
a
mountaine
of
euery
mole-hill
:
crying
out
with
open
mouthes
against
the
ill
liues
of
all
Ministers
,
though
their
owne
be
a
great
deale
worse
.
But
hypocrites
as
they
are
,
a
man
may
well
say
vnto
them
,
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
said
of
such
like
in
his
time
,
Mat.
7.3
.
Why
seest
thou
the
mote
that
is
in
thy
brothers
eye
,
and
perceiuest
not
the
beame
that
is
in
thine
owne
eye
?
But
if
the
accusation
were
neuer
so
iust
and
true
,
that
there
were
some
Ministers
(
as
God
knoweth
there
bee
too
many
)
that
confuted
their
good
Sermons
with
their
lewde
liues
:
yet
that
ought
not
to
make
altogether
against
all
preaching
,
no
more
then
the
bad
dealing
of
many
Lawyers
and
Physicians
doth
vtterly
condemne
the
whole
practice
of
Law
and
physicke
.
Besides
,
there
is
in
the
Ministery
,
as
in
al
other
professions
,
a
number
that
are
in
truth
no
Ministers
,
but
euen
the
scum
and
refuse
of
the
Ministery
;
and
therefore
it
is
against
reason
and
equitie
,
to
turne
their
vile
and
dissolute
behauiour
,
to
the
generall
disgrace
of
al
godly
Ministers
.
Againe
,
it
is
most
true
,
that
the
best
Ministers
that
are
,
are
not
freed
from
the
common
infirmities
and
corruptions
of
mankinde
,
Iam.
5.17
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
as
the
Apostle
saith
of
Elias
,
that
though
he
were
a
man
of
excellent
graces
,
yet
he
was
subiect
to
the
same
passions
that
we
are
.
And
as
Paul
and
Barnabas
confessed
of
themselues
,
Acts
14.15
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
in
the
same
word
,
when
the
men
of
Lystra
would
haue
sacrificed
vnto
them
,
O
ye
men
,
say
they
,
why
doe
yee
these
things
?
we
are
euen
men
subiect
to
the
like
passions
that
ye
be
:
neither
are
they
indued
with
greater
priuiledges
against
sinne
,
Rom.
7.
tot
.
then
other
men
(
as
the
Apostle
Paul
,
though
rarely
sanctified
,
doth
acknowledge
of
himselfe
.
)
And
therefore
,
Sen.
de
beata
vita
,
lib.
1.
they
are
not
able
in
all
respects
to
performe
and
practise
that
which
they
teach
to
others
:
For
if
they
could
doe
according
to
their
doctrine
,
they
were
most
happy
.
Sen.
epist.
94.
But
alas
,
they
that
are
most
diligent
and
conscionable
in
admonishing
others
,
cannot
do
it
themselues
.
And
therfore
,
men
should
rather
labor
to
reape
benefit
by
their
preaching
,
then
to
wrangle
and
cauill
at
their
liuing
.
For
they
are
not
to
liue
by
the
example
of
any
man
,
Matth.
22.16
.
but
by
the
rules
and
precepts
of
the
Word
of
God
.
And
if
the
Minister
teach
the
way
of
God
truly
,
as
the
Pharises
said
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
though
himselfe
walke
not
alwaies
with
a
right
foote
in
the
same
;
Gal.
2.14
.
the
people
are
to
follow
his
doctrine
rather
then
his
life
.
As
our
Sauiour
Christ
commanded
the
Iewes
,
that
though
the
Scribes
did
say
and
not
do
:
yet
because
they
sate
in
Moses
his
seat
,
they
should
obserue
and
doe
whatsoeuer
they
bid
them
obserue
:
Mat.
23.2
,
3.
For
doubtlesse
,
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
well
to
this
purpose
,
He
that
teacheth
wisely
and
eloquently
,
De
doct.
cir.
li.
4.
and
yet
liueth
wickedly
,
hee
instructeth
many
men
by
his
preaching
,
though
he
be
vnprofitable
to
his
owne
soule
.
And
a
little
after
he
addeth
:
They
may
be
heard
with
profit
to
others
,
which
doe
vnprofitably
themselues
.
Diuiding
the
Word
of
truth
aright
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Caictanus
in
locum
.
Beza
,
Piscator
,
&c.
Leu.
1.6
,
7
,
8
,
12
,
&c.
]
The
word
here
vsed
is
a
borrowed
speech
,
taken
,
as
some
expound
it
,
from
Carpenters
,
that
cut
their
timber
by
a
right
line
:
or
as
others
interpret
it
,
from
that
cutting
and
diuiding
of
the
sacrifices
,
which
the
Priests
vsed
in
the
Law
:
wherein
the
Apostle
expresseth
the
chiefe
and
principall
office
of
a
Minister
.
For
seeing
a
Minister
is
implied
in
the
most
excellent
profession
of
al
others
,
namely
,
in
propounding
and
deliuering
the
Word
of
truth
vnto
Gods
people
,
then
which
there
is
nothing
greater
nor
more
precious
in
all
the
world
,
the
Apostle
here
instructeth
him
,
how
hee
is
rightly
to
handle
the
same
.
Now
this
right
diuiding
of
the
Word
consisteth
:
first
,
in
the
right
interpreting
of
the
Scripture
.
Secondly
,
in
the
right
disposing
of
it
in
an
apt
and
fit
methode
.
Thirdly
,
in
propounding
and
deliuering
it
in
such
plaine
words
and
easie
stile
,
as
the
hearers
may
vnderstand
it
.
Fourthly
,
in
applying
the
same
vnto
the
hearers
,
as
their
capacity
is
able
to
beare
,
and
as
their
necessity
doth
require
.
For
the
first
of
these
,
the
Minister
must
be
carefull
to
interpret
the
place
of
Scripture
,
which
he
handleth
,
and
to
lay
open
the
meaning
of
it
,
especially
if
there
bee
any
thing
in
it
,
that
is
hard
to
be
vnderstood
.
Thus
did
Ezra
that
learned
Seribe
,
who
was
prompt
in
the
Law
of
God
,
Ezra
7.6
.
,
when
he
stood
vp
in
the
Pulpit
which
was
made
for
the
preaching
,
Nebem
.
8.4
,
8.
he
read
in
the
booke
of
the
Law
of
God
distinctly
,
and
gaue
the
sense
.
Now
the
Scripture
is
best
interpreted
,
when
it
is
interpreted
according
to
the
meaning
of
the
author
of
it
,
that
is
the
Lord.
1.
Cor.
2.16
.
And
if
any
shall
obiect
,
who
hath
knowne
the
minde
of
the
Lord
?
I
answere
,
that
if
in
interpreting
the
Scripture
,
we
follow
the
analogie
of
faith
,
we
cannot
faile
of
the
mind
of
the
Lord.
Rom.
12.6
.
As
the
Apostle
saith
:
If
we
prophesie
,
that
is
,
if
we
expound
the
Scripture
,
let
vs
prophesie
according
to
the
proportion
of
faith
.
Where
he
sets
downe
the
true
Canon
of
discerning
a
true
interpretation
from
a
false
,
Beza
in
Rom.
12
namely
,
if
it
be
examined
according
to
the
infallible
maximes
and
principles
of
Christian
faith
,
contained
in
the
Apostles
Creede
,
as
it
is
commonly
called
,
which
from
the
beginning
of
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
was
written
as
an
epitome
and
abridgement
therof
,
and
was
therfore
worthily
called
the
rule
and
square
of
faith
.
Whereunto
agreeth
that
saying
of
S.
Augustine
,
De
Doct.
Chr.
lib.
3.
When
diligence
applied
,
shall
perceiue
it
vncertaine
,
how
a
thing
must
be
distinguished
,
or
how
it
must
be
pronounced
;
let
a
man
consult
with
the
rule
of
faith
,
which
he
hath
receiued
from
plainer
places
of
Scripture
,
and
from
the
authoritie
of
the
Church
.
And
indeede
for
the
most
part
we
shall
find
,
that
the
harder
places
of
the
Scripture
are
interpreted
by
some
other
that
are
plainer
.
Nehem.
8.8
.
Exponendo
sensum
,
dabant
intelligentiam
per
scripturam
ipsam
.
And
therefore
it
is
said
of
Ezra
in
the
place
before
alleaged
,
as
Tremelius
readeth
it
,
that
when
hee
read
the
Law
to
the
people
,
he
opened
the
sense
,
and
gaue
the
vnderstanding
by
the
Scripture
it selfe
.
But
I
will
dwell
no
longer
in
the
amplifying
of
this
point
:
he
that
desireth
to
reade
more
hereof
,
let
him
peruse
the
learned
Treatise
of
that
worthy
and
reuerend
man
,
Master
Doctor
Whittakers
,
wherein
hee
disputeth
the
same
at
large
against
Bellarmine
.
The
vse
of
it
,
in
a
word
,
is
to
reprooue
first
all
those
,
who
being
sworne
vassals
to
the
Pope
,
make
him
the
onely
interpreter
of
the
Scriptures
.
For
howsoeuer
they
talke
of
the
Fathers
,
and
of
generall
Councels
to
bee
consulted
withall
in
this
case
,
yet
in
the
ende
they
bring
all
to
the
Pope
,
and
make
him
the
vmpire
in
the
whole
businesse
.
But
the
Apostle
Paul
hath
taught
vs
,
1.
Cor.
2.11
.
that
as
no
man
knoweth
the
things
of
man
,
but
the
spirit
of
man
that
is
within
him
:
euen
so
no
man
knoweth
the
things
of
God
,
but
the
Spirit
of
God
.
2.
Tim.
3.16
.
That
same
Spirit
,
by
whose
inspiration
the
whole
Scripture
was
giuen
,
2.
Pet.
1.21
.
and
by
whom
the
holy
men
that
penned
the
Scripture
were
mooued
,
he
must
needes
bee
the
best
Interpreter
of
the
Scripture
.
Secondly
,
it
reprooueth
those
,
who
when
they
come
to
handle
the
Scripture
in
the
hearing
of
Gods
people
,
doe
dwell
onely
in
the
rind
or
outward
barke
,
and
leaue
the
marrow
and
inward
life
and
soule
of
the
Scripture
vntouched
.
For
euen
as
the
fruit
of
light
metals
,
Seneca
.
epist.
23.
is
aboue
in
the
top
of
the
earth
:
but
those
are
richest
,
whose
veine
is
hidden
deepe
,
and
will
euery
day
more
fully
satissie
him
that
diggeth
:
so
there
are
many
excellent
things
hid
,
as
it
were
in
the
bowels
of
the
holy
Scriptures
,
which
with
a
superficiall
and
ouerly
kind
of
studie
,
cannot
be
attained
vnto
.
And
therefore
,
if
it
bee
the
dutie
of
all
that
studie
the
Scriptures
,
John
5.39
.
Prou.
2.4
.
to
search
them
diligently
,
as
our
Sauiour
saith
,
yea
,
to
seeke
for
the
knowledge
thereof
as
for
siluer
,
and
digge
for
it
as
for
hid
treasure
.
Much
more
is
it
the
Ministers
dutie
,
who
must
open
and
explaine
the
same
vnto
the
people
.
In
cap.
3
ad
Ephes.
And
the
rather
,
because
,
as
Saint
Hierom
saith
,
There
is
no
word
,
no
syllable
,
no
tittle
or
accent
,
no
little
pricke
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
but
it
is
full
of
knowledge
.
Thirdly
,
it
reprooueth
yet
another
sort
,
who
search
too
farre
into
the
Scriptures
,
and
not
contenting
themselues
with
the
naturall
fense
and
meaning
of
the
place
,
draw
all
to
Allegories
,
and
mysticall
expositions
.
Concerning
whom
I
will
onely
set
downe
what
Saint
Augustine
saith
in
this
case
.
De
Ciu.
Dei
.
lib.
17.
cap.
3.
As
,
saith
he
,
they
seeme
to
be
much
deceiued
,
which
thinke
there
is
nothing
at
all
in
the
Scriptures
,
that
signifieth
any
thing
else
,
but
that
it
was
done
after
that
manner
:
so
they
seeme
to
bee
very
bold
,
which
auouch
,
that
all
things
there
,
are
wrapped
vp
and
infolded
in
Allegories
.
The
second
thing
wherein
the
right
diuiding
of
the
Word
consisteth
,
is
the
right
disposing
of
the
things
to
be
deliuered
in
an
apt
and
fit
method
.
This
is
most
necessary
.
For
hereby
euery
thing
commeth
to
haue
his
due
place
,
that
it
may
bee
orderly
and
methodically
vttered
.
It
is
a
true
saying
that
Seneca
hath
to
this
purpose
,
Epist.
89.
It
is
a
profitable
thing
,
and
very
necessarie
for
him
that
would
attaine
to
wisedome
,
to
haue
Philosophy
diuided
,
and
that
great
body
to
bee
disposed
into
his
members
.
For
we
are
more
easily
brought
by
the
parts
vnto
the
knowledge
of
the
whole
.
And
a
little
after
:
Whatsoeuer
is
growne
somewhat
great
,
it
is
more
easily
discerned
,
if
it
be
separated
into
parts
.
Macrob.
Satur.
lib.
1.
praefat.
It
were
to
small
purpose
,
if
a
workeman
had
stones
and
timber
,
and
all
other
stuffe
necessarie
for
the
building
of
an
house
,
vnlesse
hee
did
dispose
and
set
euerie
thing
in
order
.
So
likewise
,
it
is
to
as
little
purpose
,
for
a
Minister
to
be
furnished
with
plentiful
matter
of
instruction
for
his
hearers
,
vnlesse
hee
obserue
an
orderly
methode
in
his
teaching
.
Confusion
hath
euer
been
accounted
the
mother
of
errour
.
And
therefore
in
all
things
,
men
are
carefull
to
proceede
in
an
orderly
course
.
In
an
armie
,
al
things
are
placed
in
due
order
.
And
in
a
feast
,
the
Sewer
doth
not
onely
set
good
meat
on
the
table
,
but
also
disposeth
euery
thing
fitly
in
due
place
and
time
:
much
more
should
this
be
obserued
of
a
Minister
of
the
Word
,
in
the
right
disposing
of
the
food
of
mens
soules
.
This
serueth
for
the
reproofe
of
those
that
offend
against
this
course
in
the
two
extremes
.
As
first
,
such
as
obserue
no
order
nor
methode
at
all
in
handling
of
the
word
,
but
vtter
whatsoeuer
commeth
on
the
tongues
end
.
Whereby
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
many
times
they
wander
from
their
Text
they
know
not
whither
,
and
are
as
farre
from
the
scope
and
sense
of
it
,
as
the
East
is
from
the
West
.
And
hence
also
ariseth
another
inconuenience
,
that
they
weary
and
tyre
out
their
hearers
by
falling
into
odious
and
irkesome
tautologies
and
repetitions
,
wherein
they
often
lose
themselues
in
such
sort
,
as
they
cannot
get
out
.
Lib.
9.
declam.
5.
Whereas
Seneca
saith
wittily
in
disgrace
of
such
a
one
,
That
it
is
no
lesse
vertue
to
know
when
to
make
an
end
,
then
how
to
speake
.
Secondly
,
such
as
are
ouer-curious
in
their
diuisions
.
A
thing
which
Seneca
condemneth
in
the
handling
of
Philosophie
:
In
partes
,
non
in
frusta
diuidam
.
Ep.
89.
Jbid.
Idem
.
n.
vitij
habet
,
nimia
quod
nulla
diuisio
.
Ibid.
I
will
diuide
it
,
saith
he
,
into
parts
,
not
into
gobbets
:
and
,
It
is
profitable
to
haue
it
diuided
,
not
minsed
.
And
againe
,
The
parts
should
not
bee
innumerable
and
ouer-little
.
For
it
is
as
great
a
fault
to
haue
too
many
diuisions
,
as
none
at
all
.
And
in
a
word
,
it
is
like
to
confusion
,
whatsoeuer
is
cut
as
small
as
dust
.
Much
more
is
this
a
thing
to
be
condemned
,
in
diuiding
of
the
holy
Word
of
God
.
For
they
that
are
so
nice
in
their
diuisions
and
subdiuisions
without
end
,
are
euen
like
the
horse
,
that
when
hee
goeth
to
drinke
,
blundreth
and
troubleth
the
water
with
his
foote
,
which
was
cleare
before
:
so
do
these
leaue
the
Word
of
God
by
this
meanes
more
obscure
to
the
poore
people
,
then
they
found
it
.
Let
it
be
our
care
therefore
,
to
obserue
a
plaine
and
easie
methode
,
contenting
our selues
with
the
naturall
diuision
of
the
Text
,
that
our
hearers
in
their
vnderstanding
,
may
be
able
to
follow
vs
from
point
to
point
,
as
they
are
deliuered
.
The
third
thing
wherein
the
right
diuiding
of
the
Word
consisteth
,
is
to
propound
and
deliuer
the
instructions
of
it
,
in
such
apt
and
fit
words
,
as
the
hearers
may
vnderstand
it
.
Thus
did
Ezra
open
the
law
to
the
people
in
such
plaine
manner
,
as
he
caused
them
to
vnderstand
it
.
Nehem.
8.3
.
And
the
Apostle
Paul
professeth
,
1.
Cor.
2.4
.
that
his
preaching
stood
not
in
the
intising
speech
of
mans
wisedome
,
but
in
plaine
euidence
of
the
Spirit
,
and
of
power
.
Hee
did
not
set
a
glosse
vpon
the
Word
by
humane
art
,
as
Marchants
doe
vpon
their
wares
to
make
them
more
beautifull
:
but
as
he
saith
in
the
same
Chapter
,
Verse
13.
He
did
speake
in
words
,
which
the
holy
Ghost
taught
him
,
comparing
spirituall
things
with
spirituall
things
.
And
indeed
as
the
Gospell
proceedeth
not
from
men
,
but
from
God
:
so
it
teacheth
things
that
are
aboue
mans
sense
and
reason
.
And
therefore
in
deliuering
of
the
same
,
the
Minister
should
vse
not
humane
,
but
diuine
eloquence
.
Gods
Word
is
spirituall
;
and
therefore
the
speech
wherein
it
must
be
deliuered
,
must
also
be
spirituall
,
euen
taught
by
the
Spirit
.
And
that
is
a
plaine
and
an
easie
stile
,
which
is
both
most
fit
to
carry
the
Word
to
the
conscience
of
euery
man
,
and
also
to
expresse
the
Maiestie
of
the
Word
.
And
therefore
the
Apostle
saith
in
another
place
,
that
he
had
rather
speake
fine
words
in
the
Church
with
his
vnderstanding
,
that
he
might
also
instruct
others
,
then
ten
thousand
wordes
in
a
strange
tongue
:
De
Doct.
Chrlib
.
4.
1.
Cor.
14.19
.
To
which
purpose
Saint
Augustine
hath
a
good
saying
:
Hee
that
teacheth
,
must
not
care
with
how
great
eloquence
he
teacheth
:
but
with
how
great
euidence
and
plainenesse
.
Cicera
in
M.
Anton.
Philip.
3.
For
what
doth
purenesse
of
speech
profit
,
which
the
vnderstanding
of
the
hearer
doth
not
follow
?
Seeing
there
is
no
cause
at
all
of
speaking
,
if
they
doe
not
vnderstand
what
wee
speake
,
for
whose
sake
wee
speake
,
that
they
may
vnderstand
.
And
therefore
he
that
teacheth
,
must
shun
all
words
that
teach
not
.
This
serueth
to
reprooue
all
those
,
Horat.
de
art.
poet
.
that
thinke
scorne
to
condescend
and
stoope
to
the
capacities
of
the
poore
people
,
but
vse
vaine
eloquence
,
such
as
the
hearers
cannot
vnderstand
.
As
there
are
many
that
come
into
the
Pulpit
with
an
affected
kinde
of
grauitie
,
as
though
they
were
great
men
,
and
with
bombasted
and
strange
new
coined
words
labour
to
astonish
and
amaze
their
hearers
,
when
(
God
knoweth
)
the
matter
is
so
idle
and
vaine
,
as
that
men
of
iudgement
are
almost
sicke
to
heare
it
.
To
such
the
common
prouerbe
may
be
applied
,
There
is
great
boast
,
and
little
rost
.
Ibid.
These
men
haue
little
desire
to
edifie
their
hearers
,
or
to
conuert
soules
to
God
,
when
they
will
not
speake
to
their
vnderstanding
.
It
hath
euer
been
accounted
the
best
eloquence
,
and
the
best
Orators
haue
alwaies
made
it
their
chiefest
care
,
to
expresse
their
meaning
in
the
fittest
and
aptest
words
that
could
be
.
And
therfore
,
Octauius
the
Emperour
,
Sueton.
in
Octa.
a
man
of
excellent
speech
himselfe
,
rebuketh
M.
Antonius
as
a
mad
man
,
as
writing
such
things
which
men
might
rather
wonder
at
,
then
vnderstand
.
Much
more
is
this
a
fault
in
a
Minister
of
the
Word
,
Seneca
.
epist.
100
whose
greatest
defire
and
endeuour
should
bee
to
compose
and
order
mans
manners
,
and
not
their
words
,
and
to
speake
to
the
hearts
,
and
not
to
the
eares
of
his
hearers
.
Affected
eloquence
may
for
a
time
tickle
and
delight
the
eare
,
but
it
vanishethaway
like
the
emptie
sound
of
musicke
without
fruite
.
The
fourth
and
last
thing
,
wherein
the
right
diuiding
of
the
Word
consisteth
,
is
to
apply
the
same
to
the
capacitie
and
seuerall
necessities
of
the
hearers
:
Caluin
.
in
locum
.
as
if
a
Father
should
cut
a
loafe
of
bread
in
pieces
to
feede
his
children
.
The
doctrine
must
be
tempered
to
the
estate
and
condition
of
the
auditorie
.
This
is
the
chiefe
of
all
the
rest
,
and
therfore
all
the
Interpreters
beat
most
vpon
it
,
as
it
were
with
one
consent
.
Beza
saith
:
Let
him
consider
diligently
,
what
the
capacitie
of
his
hearers
is
able
to
beare
,
and
what
maketh
to
edification
.
And
Piscator
:
Let
him
wisely
distribute
it
,
and
apply
it
to
the
necessities
of
his
hearers
.
And
Aretius
:
Let
it
it
bee
referred
to
the
capacitie
of
the
hearers
:
for
it
is
right
when
we
propound
to
our
hearers
,
that
which
they
are
able
to
conceiue
,
that
which
their
faith
can
vnderstand
and
beare
.
As
a
good
Steward
appointeth
not
so
much
food
for
an
infant
,
as
for
those
that
are
at
full
age
:
nor
for
a
sicke
,
as
for
a
strong
stomacke
.
And
Anselmus
:
That
thou
mayest
neither
giue
holy
things
to
dogs
,
nor
cast
pearles
before
swine
:
but
mayest
declare
the
Word
,
as
it
ought
to
bee
,
according
to
the
qualitie
of
euery
mans
person
,
&c.
And
Gorran
;
namely
,
By
teaching
and
preaching
according
to
the
necessitie
of
the
hearers
,
that
thou
mayest
giue
strong
meate
to
them
that
are
perfect
,
and
to
babes
in
Christ
milke
to
drinke
.
And
Lira
:
To
propound
words
agreeable
to
euery
one
,
namely
,
more
high
points
for
them
that
are
wise
,
and
more
plaine
and
easie
lessons
for
the
simple
.
And
the
ordinarie
Glosse
:
According
as
is
conuenient
for
euery
one
,
that
he
may
distribute
spirituall
things
to
them
that
are
profound
,
and
milke
to
little
children
.
And
indeede
,
this
is
the
chiefe
part
of
a
Ministers
dutie
,
Luke
12.42
.
euen
like
a
faithfull
and
a
wise
Steward
to
giue
to
euery
one
in
the
house
their
portion
of
meate
in
due
season
:
namely
,
that
that
is
fit
for
them
,
and
appertaineth
vnto
them
.
Heb.
5.13
,
14.
And
the
Apostle
Paul
compareth
the
grounds
and
principles
of
Religion
,
and
points
of
Catechisone
to
milke
,
where
with
they
that
are
babes
in
Christ
must
be
fed
:
and
the
higher
and
profounder
points
of
doctrine
vnto
strong
meate
,
which
belongeth
to
them
that
are
of
age
,
&c.
Wherevnto
his
practice
also
was
answerable
:
For
he
saith
he
gaue
the
Corinthians
milke
to
drinke
and
not
meate
,
1.
Cor.
3.2
.
because
they
were
not
able
to
beare
it
.
One
and
the
same
exhortation
agreeth
not
to
all
men
.
Oftentimes
those
things
hurt
some
,
that
profit
other
some
.
Bread
which
strengtheneth
the
life
of
strong
men
,
Greg.
in
prolog.
part.
3.
past
.
killeth
little
children
.
Hearbs
which
nourish
some
kind
of
creatures
,
kill
other
some
,
and
a
light
whistling
which
appeaseth
Horses
,
prouoketh
Dogs
.
And
therfore
the
speech
of
the
Teachers
,
must
be
framed
according
to
the
qualitie
of
the
hearers
.
Spirituall
doctrine
should
be
deliuered
after
the
manner
of
food
,
wherein
according
to
the
rules
of
Phisicke
,
foure
things
are
to
be
considered
.
First
,
the
substance
of
it
,
that
it
be
wholesome
and
fit
to
nourish
,
not
poysonsull
and
infectious
:
so
the
doctrine
that
is
taught
,
for
substance
must
bee
sound
and
true
,
not
false
and
hereticall
.
Secondly
,
the
qualitie
of
it
,
that
it
be
temperate
and
not
too
curious
:
so
the
manner
of
deliuering
the
Word
must
be
plaine
and
easie
,
as
hath
bin
said
alreadie
.
Thirdly
,
the
quantity
of
it
,
that
it
be
not
too
little
,
for
that
weakeneth
nature
,
nor
too
much
,
for
that
oppresseth
and
ouerwhelmeth
.
So
the
Minister
,
though
hee
neede
not
feare
the
excesse
,
because
hee
is
commanded
to
preach
in
season
,
2.
Tim.
4.2
.
and
out
of
season
:
yet
he
must
be
carefull
that
he
scant
not
the
people
of
the
Word
,
and
so
bring
that
famine
among
them
,
Amos
8.11
.
which
the
Lord
threatneth
.
And
last
of
all
,
the
necessitie
of
him
that
eateth
:
For
one
kinde
of
foode
is
fit
for
a
sound
body
,
and
another
for
a
sicke
:
one
for
a
young
man
,
another
for
an
old
man
:
one
for
a
weake
man
,
another
for
a
strong
man
.
There
bee
many
things
which
are
wholesome
to
him
that
is
in
health
,
which
are
deadly
to
him
that
is
sicke
.
Honey
is
nourishing
to
old
persons
,
which
yet
,
they
say
,
hurteth
children
,
and
breedeth
gripings
in
the
belly
which
gnaw
the
bowels
.
Againe
,
there
must
be
varietie
of
food
,
according
to
the
qualitie
of
the
disease
.
As
one
kinde
of
medicine
is
not
vsed
for
all
diseases
:
so
neither
one
doctrine
agreeth
to
al
men
.
To
diuers
diseases
,
Jn
Apolog.
ad
Gul.
Abbat
.
saith
Bernard
,
there
agree
diuers
medicines
,
and
stronger
to
them
that
are
stronger
.
And
a
medicine
that
abateth
one
disease
,
increaseth
the
strength
of
another
.
Euery
thing
therefore
must
be
fitted
to
the
condition
of
the
hearers
.
The
Husbandman
considereth
well
the
qualitie
of
the
ground
,
Virgil.
Georg.
lib.
1.
before
he
sow
his
seede
.
For
there
is
no
ground
that
is
fit
for
all
seede
.
But
some
seede
will
grow
better
on
one
soile
then
on
another
.
And
some
plants
will
thriue
and
prosper
well
in
one
kind
of
ground
,
Ouid.
de
art.
amandi
.
which
will
not
like
at
all
in
another
.
So
the
Minister
,
that
is
,
Gods
Seeds-man
,
must
consider
the
qualitie
of
his
hearers
,
that
he
may
fit
his
doctrine
accordingly
.
The
Fisherman
doth
not
alwaies
vse
one
kinde
of
net
.
Hee
doth
not
fish
with
a
casting-net
in
the
middest
of
the
Sea
,
where
the
great
fishes
might
breake
his
net
;
neither
doth
hee
spread
great
nets
in
the
shore
,
to
take
little
fishes
,
which
might
presently
get
out
againe
through
the
wide
holes
;
for
so
hee
should
lose
all
his
labour
,
but
he
fit●eth
his
nets
according
to
the
fish
which
he
desireth
to
catch
:
so
the
Minister
,
who
is
appointed
to
fish
men
to
life
,
must
apply
his
doctrine
in
such
sort
,
as
hee
seeth
his
hearers
may
be
soonest
caught
.
Cur.
past
.
part.
3.
cap.
2.
And
therefore
very
well
saith
Gregorie
to
this
purpose
,
that
it
is
a
matter
of
great
studie
and
labour
,
that
in
exhorting
euery
man
,
the
Minister
obserue
and
regard
euery
thing
,
and
that
al
things
be
dispensed
to
euery
man
,
that
doe
properly
appertaine
vnto
him
.
But
much
more
laboursome
is
it
,
at
one
and
the
same
time
,
with
the
voice
of
one
common
exhortation
to
admonish
innumerable
hearers
,
labouring
of
diuers
passions
,
that
as
it
were
with
a
two-edged
sword
,
he
may
cut
off
on
both
sides
the
swellings
of
carnall
thoughts
,
and
like
wrastlers
,
may
turne
himselfe
euery
way
in
striking
.
There
are
foure
sorts
of
Ministers
that
come
to
be
taxed
and
reprooued
by
this
doctrine
:
First
,
such
as
spend
the
time
in
deliuering
vnprofitable
&
impertinent
things
,
such
as
tend
not
at
all
to
edification
.
As
many
take
a
great
pride
and
busie
themselues
in
answering
friuolous
and
idle
questions
,
which
themselues
had
made
before
,
for
the
ostentation
of
their
wit
.
A.
Gellius
.
lib.
4.
c.
1.
A
man
may
say
to
them
when
they
come
downe
,
as
Phauorinus
the
Philosopher
said
once
to
a
boasting
Grammarian
,
that
had
wearied
him
and
others
with
an
idle
discourse
:
They
haue
taught
many
things
which
they
knew
not
before
,
and
which
they
had
no
desire
to
know
.
Sen.
epist.
45.
Or
as
Musonius
said
to
such
another
;
Both
the
speaker
and
the
hearers
lose
their
labour
.
Secondly
,
such
as
delight
onely
to
handle
obscure
and
difficult
points
of
doctrine
,
such
as
few
or
none
of
their
hearers
are
able
to
vnderstand
.
A
thing
which
euen
the
Heathen
men
haue
condemned
.
Among
the
wise
and
ancient
Grecians
,
the
difficult
and
hard
points
of
their
religion
,
were
neuer
laid
open
to
the
discussing
of
ignorant
people
,
but
were
closed
vp
with
silence
.
And
Varro
remooued
those
bookes
which
hee
wrote
of
the
profoundest
questions
,
and
darkest
mysteries
of
Theologie
,
from
the
sight
and
knowledge
of
the
multitude
,
and
shut
them
vp
within
the
wall
of
the
Schooles
.
Much
more
should
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
bee
carefull
not
to
handle
deepe
and
intricate
points
of
Diuinitie
in
the
hearing
of
poore
ignorant
people
,
2.
Pet.
3.16
.
lest
being
vnlearned
,
and
not
able
to
vnderstand
the
same
,
they
peruert
them
to
their
owne
destruction
,
as
the
Apostle
Peter
saith
.
Thirdly
,
such
as
deliuer
good
and
profitable
doctrine
,
but
neuer
apply
it
to
mens
consciences
.
Doctrine
and
application
should
not
be
separated
:
yea
,
1.
Cor.
14.3
.
the
Apostle
maketh
this
the
chiefe
end
of
prophesying
,
that
is
,
of
preaching
the
Word
,
namely
,
to
speake
to
edifying
,
to
exhortation
,
and
to
comfort
.
And
he
exhorteth
TIMOTHEVS
,
to
giue
attendance
,
1.
Tim.
4.13
.
as
well
to
exhortation
,
as
to
doctrine
.
And
in
his
preaching
to
rebuke
and
exhort
,
as
well
as
to
teach
.
2.
Tim.
4.2
.
And
the
same
he
also
commandeth
Titus
.
Tis.
2.15
.
And
this
himselfe
practised
in
all
his
Epistles
,
where
first
hee
setteth
downe
matter
of
doctrine
,
for
the
information
of
the
iudgement
,
and
then
proceedeth
to
matter
of
exhortation
,
for
the
reformation
of
manners
.
Doctrine
indeed
is
profitable
to
perswade
the
iudgement
:
but
it
is
the
application
of
the
doctrine
,
that
must
worke
vpon
the
heart
and
affections
to
winne
them
.
So
that
application
is
the
very
life
and
edge
of
doctrine
;
without
which
it
is
dull
,
cold
,
barren
,
and
as
good
as
dead
,
and
doth
little
good
vnto
the
hearers
.
Not
because
there
is
any
defect
in
the
Word
,
for
it
is
perfect
to
all
vses
and
purposes
:
but
because
few
or
none
will
apply
the
doctrine
to
themselues
,
if
the
Minister
neglect
to
doe
it
.
For
according
to
the
common
saying
.
That
which
is
spoken
to
all
,
is
spoken
to
none
;
because
euery
man
posteth
it
off
to
his
fellow
,
and
will
not
take
it
to
himselfe
,
vnlesse
the
Minister
lay
it
home
to
his
conscience
,
and
so
apply
it
,
Mat.
21.45
.
(
as
Christ
did
to
the
chiefe
Priests
and
Pharises
)
as
they
may
perceiue
that
he
speaketh
of
them
.
If
a
Phisician
should
prescribe
neuer
so
excellent
and
approoued
a
medicine
vnto
his
Patient
,
yet
if
it
be
not
applied
,
it
can
doe
him
no
good
.
No
more
can
the
doctrines
of
the
Word
,
though
neuer
so
excellent
,
vnlesse
they
be
applied
to
the
conscience
.
Ephes.
6.17
.
Heb.
4.12
.
The
Word
of
God
is
a
sword
,
yea
,
a
two-edged
sword
to
cut
both
waies
.
But
it
is
like
a
sword
in
a
scabberd
,
and
cannot
cut
at
al
,
vnlesse
it
be
drawne
out
by
application
.
Now
the
bare
reading
of
the
Word
cannot
doe
this
;
it
is
the
powerfull
preaching
of
it
that
worketh
this
effect
.
And
therefore
Stapleton
,
though
a
Papist
,
and
therfore
no
great
friend
to
preaching
,
yet
he
preferreth
it
infinitely
before
reading
.
Preaching
,
saith
he
,
planteth
yong
beginners
,
and
watereth
them
that
goe
forward
.
And
in
another
place
:
The
voice
of
God
soundeth
most
effectually
in
Sermons
,
not
in
books
.
And
many
times
it
commeth
to
passe
,
Plin.
Secund.
lib.
2.
epist.
3.
that
one
and
the
same
sentence
,
which
being
read
,
made
no
impression
in
the
mind
,
being
spoken
and
deliuered
in
a
Sermon
,
doth
mightily
stirre
vs
vp
:
and
that
which
,
though
we
know
it
before
in
reading
,
was
not
obserued
;
in
preaching
is
obserued
with
admiration
,
2.
Cor.
4.2
.
and
doth
wonderfully
please
vs
,
which
before
we
passed
ouer
without
any
taste
.
Last
of
all
,
such
as
giue
themselues
to
flatter
their
hearers
,
handling
the
Word
of
God
deceitfully
;
or
as
it
is
in
the
Vulgar
Translation
,
Dominica
.
22.
post
Pcnte
.
ost
.
adulterating
the
Word
:
which
Stapleton
wittily
expoundeth
in
this
manner
:
They
doe
adulterate
the
Word
of
God
,
saith
he
,
that
doe
not
thereby
seeke
to
beget
children
vnto
God
,
but
onely
to
benefit
themselues
in
pleasing
mens
humours
:
as
adulterers
seeke
for
no
issue
,
but
onely
intend
their
owne
pleasure
.
These
are
they
that
fit
their
words
,
not
to
mens
diseafes
,
but
to
their
defires
,
and
doe
not
play
the
Phisicians
,
but
the
clawbacks
and
the
Parasites
.
But
euery
faithfull
Minister
must
first
terrifie
mens
minds
with
the
threatnings
of
the
law
,
and
then
,
if
need
stand
,
raise
them
vp
with
the
promises
of
the
Gospell
.
And
they
that
after
this
manner
diuide
the
Word
aright
,
are
sure
by
Gods
blessing
to
see
some
fruits
of
their
labour
in
the
Church
.
The
Minister
must
remember
,
that
he
hath
to
deale
as
well
with
the
wicked
,
as
with
the
godly
;
and
therefore
hee
must
so
temper
his
doctrine
,
as
neither
the
one
may
haue
occasion
giuen
him
to
despaire
,
nor
the
other
may
take
to
himselfe
the
promises
of
God
,
when
they
are
not
due
vnto
him
.
This
peraduenture
will
bee
troublesome
,
and
it
may
be
will
procure
him
hatred
,
as
the
Galatians
counted
the
Apostle
PAVL
their
enemie
,
Gal.
4.16
.
because
he
told
them
the
truth
.
But
a
Minister
must
not
satisfie
mens
desires
,
but
faithfully
execute
that
which
God
hath
giuen
him
in
commandement
.
And
as
Physicians
do
many
times
powre
bitter
potions
into
mens
mouthes
,
whether
they
will
or
no
;
and
as
Surgeons
cut
and
seare
mens
wounds
,
though
they
struggle
neuer
so
,
if
there
bee
necessitie
:
so
the
Minister
must
not
respect
the
daintie
and
tender
eares
of
the
people
,
but
must
constantly
aime
at
the
ende
of
his
Ministery
.
It
was
spoken
in
the
commendation
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
euen
by
the
mouth
of
his
greatest
enemies
,
that
he
taught
the
way
of
God
truly
,
Matth.
22.16
.
and
considered
no
mans
person
.
He
taught
in
truth
;
in
his
doctrine
he
spake
nothing
to
winne
the
fauour
of
any
man
,
he
deliuered
nothing
but
what
the
truth
it selfe
suggested
vnto
him
.
So
must
it
bee
with
all
the
Ministers
of
Christ
;
they
must
neither
respect
the
displeasure
,
nor
the
fauour
of
any
man
.
Stapleton
speaketh
very
peremptorily
:
They
are
the
ministers
of
Satan
,
that
either
perswade
,
or
promise
,
or
dare
giue
peace
to
a
wicked
man
without
repentance
.
Finally
,
this
doctrine
serueth
to
stirre
vp
euery
one
of
vs
to
the
faithfull
and
sincere
performance
of
this
dutie
.
We
must
not
onely
rehearse
the
Word
of
God
by
the
way
,
but
by
diuiding
it
aright
,
we
must
fitly
apply
it
to
seuerall
places
,
times
and
persons
.
And
whether
we
purpose
to
teach
,
or
to
exhort
,
or
to
rebuke
,
or
to
comfort
,
wee
must
not
please
mens
eares
with
an
emptie
sound
of
words
,
and
with
curious
speeches
made
for
ostentation
:
but
wee
must
labour
to
pierce
euen
into
the
hearts
of
men
,
and
to
speake
to
their
soules
and
consciences
.
And
therefore
,
to
shut
vp
all
with
that
speech
of
Saint
Chrysostome
,
Lib.
de
sacerdou
.
A
Pastor
standeth
neede
of
great
wisedome
,
and
sixe
hundred
eyes
,
that
he
may
euery
way
rightly
discerne
the
disposition
of
mens
minds
,
that
he
may
know
when
he
is
to
deale
mildly
and
gently
,
and
when
roughly
and
sharpely
.
FINIS
.