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A78576	The preacher, or the art and method of preaching: shewing the most ample directions and rules for invention, method, expression, and books whereby a minister may be furnished with such helps as may make him a useful laborer in the Lords vineyard. / By William Chappell Bishop of Cork, sometime Fellow of Christs College in Cambridge.; Methodus concionandi. English	Chappell, William, 1582-1649.; Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1957; Thomason E1707_1; ESTC R209506	52,143	230

have been heretofore condemned c. he must be so much the more wary and certain of that which he speaks For the grievouser the crime is which is objected the grievouser is the injury if it be objected falsely 7. Finally what error soever he brings upon the stage let him doe it nervously solidly and manifestly lest the resutation vanish away and the error stick fast but with an affection and speech befitting the cause and Christian charity lest whilest he takes care to free the hearers mindes from error he fill them with malice and bitternesse and by his example doe teach how to cause Religion to be from one end to the other evill spoken of and hated by the brethren then which things if we will believe Scripture rather then our own malignant nature there can nothing be more contrary to pure Religion Crypsis 8. The use of Refutation may for the most part be omitted unlesse the error be such as have found belief with our Auditors or of which we are afraid in their behalf or from which we may hope by their means to have others freed 9. In some necessary Controversie we may prosecute the error 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the opposite truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAP. XVIII Of Reprehension 1. NOw follow the uses which have respect to the heart or will and affections But these especially doe vindicate to themselves all manner of Rh●torical preparation but not to be undertaken without the salt of wisdom and gravity as is befitting a sacred person and businesse 2. And here sometimes may be somewhat mixed with the use which belongs to another but obliquely as they shall seem to conduce for the sharpning or softning of one another 3. The uses which belong to the heart have a respect unto it either as under some present distemperature or disposition in regard of which it hath need of some correction or rectification or in relation to some future thing Of the first kind are Reprehension Consolation These two seem to be contained in the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for correction 4. If the Doctrine doe afford a consectary which doth argue the evill of the sin to lye upon our hearers it may be applyed to them in the use of Reprehension 5. The formall object therefore of this is sin of which the Author doth not yet repent The end to excite sorrow or repentance The medium or means by which he attains to this end is by arguing and urging that evill both as present and as great 6. The presence of the evil may be demonstrated from the notes or markes And these may be taken chiefly from the proper adjuncts and opposites without a medium because that from these we may always argue both affirmatively and negatively The causes also may sometimes be taken for notes unlesse it be when we had rather make use of them in the Exhortation or Dehortation But in this thing the proper effects are exceeding usefull For though we cannot argue from them affirmatively and negatively because the cause is not alwayes in the second act yet the affirmative argumentation is very evident and convictive neither is the negative quite null when the cause if it were present had all things present for to act We may also make use of other notes as well affirmatives as negatives 7. But the man of God who will with dexterity assigne the notes especially in some cases must have senses well exercised in Scriptures and be well skilled both in the art of reasoning the nature of the humane soul and the divers means of Gods operating also the state of man as well carnal as spiritual and the divers degrees of either and in what state and degree he was in Scriptures from whose example he will argue c. But away with all vain dreams of humane brain private experiments confused and incertain collections c. wherewith one making himself as a rule to all men like a Pretor and as it were sitting on a tribunal gives sentence on anothers state having neither regard nor respect to the nature of things or Gods own Word though every one of us stands or fals to God alone and his Word be the judge of all men and the rule of all states and degrees in order to God and a certain and infallible index of all manner of obliquity 8. Those things we have said here of notes may be usefull in Consolation and chiefly in Exhortation 9. As the presence of the evill is demonstrated by the notes of the offence so the greatnesse by the aggravations The chief heads of aggravations may be taken out by the Scheme added to the end of the Chapter which also hath place in the residue of uses 10. To this act of Reprehension may also be added the act of Commination or Denuntiation of punishment out of one or more manifest places of Scripture with which the holy Ghost thunders against that sin 11. But let this use more then any of the rest bring with it the force and evidence of the Text or Doctrine from whence it is deduced Here we must also make use if there be any necessity to use them of the most evident notes we can get Like unto the bleating of the sheep c. 1 Sam. 15. to discover Saul's disobedience 12. When subordinate sins and such as are distinguished by divers degrees are to be reprehended it will be most commodious to begin with the least and so ascend gradatim or by degrees And so likewise in the aggravation of the same sin But here the privative opposition is lesser then the adverse 13. If it be requisite to insist somewhat longer in reprehending of some sin after the notes are given if there be need of them we may first argue from the dishonesty and unprofitablenesse where also the Comminations in its latitude Then with aggravations shewing the more then vulgar magnitude of both or of the first in some cases following also each degree of the said sin if so you think fitting from the least to the highest and that by divers heads and degrees of aggravations 14. To this head may be referred the Lamentation sometimes used in Scripture by which the Preacher sometimes virtually and obliquely reprehends sinners This Lamentation is sometimes actually assumed foretold that it must be assumed And it is for sin committed punishment present future That for sin draws nearer to the nature of formal Reprehension as having the object cloathed with the same formal reason This for punishment is more oblique as not having the same reason in the object but that doth argue it as the effect doth the proper cause That principally flows from the Preachers love to God towards whom the sin is This from the love towards the neighbour against whom the punishment is An example of Lamentation actually assumed for sin is to be had Isai 1.21 For punishment present Lam. 1. v. 1. to the 12. future Is 22.4 An example of a Lamentation which

the parts of them which belong to the scope applyed to the parts of the Redditions and yet the feigned Propositions or their parts considered of themselves without their Redditions doe not make divine Axiomes As for example the Parables of the Sower and the Tares c. in the explaining of which our Saviour applies the feigned Topick to the real See Chap. 6. Sect. 16. III. Comprehended in the Text Not only deduced from it by a consequence For axiomes that are found in Scriptures may be called Prime truths and as it were Principles in respect of those which are vertually contained in them and may be deduced from them by a good consequence And these principles are they which I would only have held for Doctrines yet these are not to be had totidem verbis or word by word formally in the text and therefore peradventure not obvious to every one or conspicuous at the first sight but sometimes are to be drawn out and reduced into form the Explication being premised or a Collation with other Scriptures presupposing the common manner of speaking or the Wisdom of God who speaketh These I say I would have only to be held for Doctrines for by this means first hearers may grow accustomed to the Text of holy Scripture when they are as it were led by the hand through all its axiomes or expresse truths whereas otherwise they may goe from the Sermon almost as ignorant in the Text as they came Secondly by this means the hearer will have the Doctrine as it were before his eyes so that coming home having opened the book he may say I have this day heard this part of holy Writ expounded and applyed Whereas the Doctrine being deduced by consequence oftentimes obscurely sometimes weakly and sometimes falsely is soon forgotten or deserves to be so and by this means the foundation of the whole Sermon falls Thirdly by this means the Preacher doth necessarily tye himself to the words of the Text or at least will not erre in the foundation of his discourse whereas contrarywise this curb being taken away there is is a great way given to straying making any thing of what you will and applying some few general collections to any text sometimes to the connexion before the Text it self be understood and so without touching but meerly neglecting the Text to the filling of the ears and mindes of the hearers with impertinent and peradventure dangerous opinions in stead of Doctrines Fourthly by this means the Reflexion of the Use in the immediate vertue of the Principle will be much more efficacious to convince and subject the hearers mindes and may be with more confidence and authority urged by the Preacher And contrarywise when a Use is inferred out of another Use by long and incertain consequences the further every one is remote from its principle so much the lesse thereof it hath in it and acts so much the lesse by its virtue And so easily gives opportunity of evasion to the hearers and of saying as they commonly doe especially in Reproofs he strayed far from his Text. Neither can the Preacher himself with any true confidence urge that which in the present words of his mandates namely of the holy Scriptures hath little or no confirmation 2. Although I should here hardly admit of any Crypsis yet I believe those general sayings of holy Scripture propounded by God unto all and whereof that of our Saviour may be taken What I say unto you I say unto all which were written or spoken to some who were then living so they receive no specification from them may also be proposed to our auditors as directed to them CHAP. IV. How a Doctrine ought to be laid SEeing the Axiomes of holy Scripture are not framed according to that notion which God hath of himself and others but of that which he in his will hath conceived to be as a rule to us that being attemperated to our mind let it be enunciated to its Logical directrix And an Axiome being a disposal of an argument with an argument and a Syllogism of two in question with the third and as the arguments are affected one with the other so they actually exhibit their force in both places it will be of much concernment here to know well and weigh the affections of the Argument 2. A Text considered in it self is either Axiomatical or Syllogistical If axiomatical there may be a Topical Analysis premised shewing first the Thema or Aliquid then the Arguments by which it is illustrated and that in terms fitted to the Auditors capacity 3. The Axiome be it either simple or compounded is either one alone or contains more in it If one alone it may without any more adoe be presently treated of But if it contain more in it they must particularly be as one may say singled out and placed this in the first this in the second this in the third place and so forward according to the order of their nature 4. This order ought not to be looked upon by the series of the words to which it is oftentimes contrary but by the natures of the things themselves in the estimating of which also one ought to be very cautulous That Axiome that every cause by nature is before its effect though it be true may here give an occasion of error because as that which is cause is before it is a cause so that whereof it is a cause may be considered in an abstract notion before it is considered in relation to that cause in a special and distinct notion Yea peradventure the effect may be conceived under the notion of the subject and the cause as an adjunct employed about it As for example By him all things are made 1. All things were made 2. By him Yea though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the subject before the adjunct yet if the adjunct in its concretion doth contain arguments which of themselves make a compleat sense and take their specification from the subject it ought in order first to be treated of as for example To us a child is born 1. A child is born 2. To us 5. But if we consider the axiomes in themselves it will not be difficult to find the order Seeing that is first which is most simple and most general not depending on the rest but the rest on it Likewise that in the second place which immediately depends on the first and the rest on it c. And if there be any collateral ones it is all one to the method which is treated of first yet it will be the more commodious way to follow the series of the words and take that first in hand which first offers it self to the Readers view 6. There may be some absolute thing in the parts of each axiome that may contain a Doctrine That which is absolute in the parts is to be handled before the parts be jointly treated of The absolute is to be