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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13874	The povver of preaching. Or, the powerfull effects of the word truely preached, and rightly applyed as it was deliuered in one or moe sermons. By Iohn Traske, preacher of Gods word sometimes at Axmister in Deuon: afterwards at the Fleete in London: and now at Tillingham in Dengie hundred in Essex.	Traske, John, d. ca. 1638.	1623 (1623)	STC 24177; ESTC S102654	19,357	69

thrust him out of the City and bringing him to the brow of the hill whereon the City was built they would haue cast him downe headlong but that passing through the midst of them he went his way Verse 28.29.30 7. Stupefaction They were astonished at his doctrine The reason of all these is contained in the words which I haue chosen for my Text For his Word was with power As if the Euangelist should say in more words you may thinke it strange that Preaching should produce such effects but if you consider the cause you may be easily satisfied Seeing so great was the difference betweene his Preaching and others of that time that whereas they moued nothing at all got no fame wan no glory to their Ministery procured neither approbation admiration nor so much as attention to the Word by their Preaching seeing their Preaching was cold without any life as if one told a dreame Hee became famous glorious and most admirable hee spake with authority his Preaching was so liuely and became so effectuall to all in one kinde or other that hee vexed the very soules of wicked men that heard him and astonished all that attended his Ministery For his Word was with power In these words there may be obserued 1. The Connexion 2. The Proposition The Connexion in the Causall For which sheweth it to be the reason which the Euangelist giues of the manifold effects which Christs Preaching produced The Proposition it selfe is affirmatiue in which may be considered 1. The Subiect His Word 2. The Predicate was with power To set vpon the Connexion or the Causall and to consider these words with their relation to the former part of the Chapter this Doctrine will thence arise Doct. Where the word is powerfully Preached it is effectuall in one kinde or other to such as doe heare it or The word powerfully Preached is effectuall to the hearers in one kinde or other This truth needes no other footing then this of our Euangelist He tels vs that the true cause of the spreading of Christs fame and the high esteeme hee procured in the hearts of some hearers as also of the wrath and rage of others was this he Preached with authoritie His word was with power So we may see also when the Lord Iesus had ended that Sermon on the Mount the people were astonished at his Doctrine Mat. 7.28.29 for his word was with power and not as the Scribes This may be seene in the Preaching of all the Prophets and Apostles to instance in a few of them Eliah Iam. 5.17 a man subiect to the like passions as we are what powerfull effects attended his Preaching Witnesse his preuailing so farre to the conuiction of his hearers 1 King 19.40 as that they obeyed his word in the slaughter of all the Prophets of Baal 2 King And Elizeus or Elisha became as it were guide of Kingdomes by the power of this Word Ion. 3. as his History shewes yea Ionas himselfe preuailed with great Niniueh so farre as to bring the King his Nobles and all the City to true repentance That Voyce of a Cryer in the Wildernesse Mat. 3. drew all to his Baptisme yea conuicted Souldiers Luke 3. Publicans and People in great multitudes The Apostle Peter drew three thousand to the Church at one Sermon and fiue thousand at another Acts 1.41 4.3 and at another Sermon of his Acts 5.21.35 the Senate were cut at the heart by the power of his Word And Paul subdued whole Regions to the Faith Acts 13. 14 c. by his powerfull Preaching and conuinced Gainsayers of all sorts to the enraging of some against his person Reason 1 The reason is because otherwise it could not appeare to be as it is a powerfull Word Rom. 1.16 it must lose its denomination and cease to be a word of power 1 Cor. 1.18 whereas it is the power of God to the saluation of the beleeuers and the condemnation of vnbeleeuers Reason 2 Adde this also that it should else returne in vaine and void of the chiefe end for which it was sent Whereas we know that as the raine commeth down and the snow from Heauen and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may giue seed to the Sower and bread to the Eater so saith the Lord shall my Word be Isai 55.10.11 that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not returne vnto mee void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it And the holy Apostle Paul tels vs plainely in the person of all holy Ministers 2 Cor. 2.15.16 We are vnto God a sweet sauour in Christ in them that are saued and in them that perish to the one we are the sauour of death vnto death and to the other the sauour of life vnto life Reason 3 Besides these Antichrists ministery produceth powerfull effects therefore Christs Ministery must be farre more powerfu l 2 Thes 2.8.9 and produce more manifest effects where it is exercised Reason 4 Lastly the maine or chiefe practise of preaching is to wrestle and fight-with yea to ouercome all opposition as it is expressed in the mission of Ieremy that powerfull Prophet where God saith to him See Ier. 1.10 I haue set thee ouer the Nations and ouer the Kingdomes to root out and to pull downe and to destroy and throw downe to build and to plant Obiect But some obiecting against this may say True it is that all these may serue to proue that Preaching was powerfull in the dayes of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles but what is that to our dayes We may not looke for such power in Preaching Answere And why not at this day the like power in Preaching Isa 59.1 Is Gods hand shortned or his power weakened Is not Iesus Christ the same yesterday Heb. 13. ● to day and for euer Hath hee not promised to be with his Seruants in preaching to the end of the World Mat. 28.20 and that with the assistance of all power in Heauen and in Earth Is not the Holy Ghost the power of God Luke 1.35 in Christs Ministers at this day Doth not the Euangelist Iohn record a promise that is lasting Ioh. 14.12 where it is written Whosoeuer beleeueth on Christ Iesus the workes that Christ did shall such a beleeuer doe yea greater workes then those hee did in the dayes of his flesh Is there not as much neede of like power in the preaching of the Word now as there was then yea and more seeing wee haue no miracles to confirme the Word Haue we not Diuels and damned Atheists to oppose and contemne the Word at this day Are there not such of whom it may be said as of Elimas the Sorcerer That they are full of all subtilty Act. 13.10 and all mischiefe children of the Diuell