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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

these words with the precedent for a super eminent power is a revenger of wrath and a minister of God and that for the good of all therefore to be subject c. is necessary CHAP. VII Of a Copulate Axiome SEeing a Copulate Axiome consists as it were of collateral parts so that one does not depend of the other the truth of each one in it self is required and by the copulation of them it is so that if one be false the whole axiome is judged to be false Hence it comes that the parts may be severally proposed as Doctrines then as united See an example of an affirmed copulate of affirmed parts Ch. 6. Sect. 2. Of denyed Mat. 23.13 Ye goe not in 2. You suffer not c. 3. Ye neither goe in nor suffer of one affirmed and another denyed Prov. 10.22 1. The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich 2. He addeth no sorrow with it 3. It doth both make rich and doth not adde c. 2. Most comparates ought to be referred to this axiome so they be taken declaratively where the sentence is not suspended or an illation or inference of one comparate is intended out of the other To the comparates in quantity doe also belong the relations of the place and time by the same law An example of like or equals a Cor. 11.22 Are they Hebrews so am I c. And I no lesse then they or as well as they 3. When out of the Text and Context appears to be intended a comparation of peeres or equals though it be expressed under the species of a connex of impossible parts yet it will be of a copulate judgement and the contradictories of the false parts will constitute the parts of the comparation Jer. 31.36,37 God doth before and after these verses expresse the firmnesse of his Covenant with Abrahams posterity and doth suspend the contrary by the impossible supposition in these two verses The Axiomes therefore vers 36. are These Ordinances shall not depart from before me The seed of Israel shall not cease c. No more this then that so vers 37. The Antecedent The heavent cannot be measured above or the earth searched out beneath namely by men In the Consequent 1. The Absolute They have done many evils 2. I will not cast off all the seed of Iscael 3. Not for all these things which they have done or because a discretion or a division is to be understood though they have done many evils yet will I not cast off all c. Lastly out of the united parts No more the one then the other Those which are unequal doe likewise belong hereunto Prov. 17.12 Let a Bear robbed of her whelps meet a man c. 1. It is evill to have a Bear robbed of her whelps to meet a man 2. It is evill to have a fool in his folly to meet a man 3. This is a greater evill then the other In the third axiome is to be explained the excesse of evill in this more then in the other 2 Pet. 2.21 It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousnesse then after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandement c. 1. Gods Commandement is holy 2. An holy Commandement is the way of righteousnesse 3. To have an holy Commandement delivered unto him is to know the way of righteousnesse These three axiomes doe not belong to the expressing of the comparation Of the first see the rule Ch. 4. Sect. 6. and of the two latter Chap. 4. Sect. 14. But the parts of the comparation are 1. Not to have known the way of righteousnesse or the holy commandement had been evill for them 2. To turn from the known way or from the commandment given is evill 3. The latter is a lesser evill then the former 5. Semblables Where a quantity is intended but it hath not seemed good to argue it distinctly sometimes we passe over into a similitude and the quality of the quantity is expressed as Gen. 15.5 The innumerability And he brought him forth and said Look now towards heaven c. Where the Protasis the stars are not to be numbered is proved by the condescent to the manner of humane witnesse through experience Look upon and number if thou canst that is to say when thou hast tryed thou canst not Apodosis Thy seed shall be innumerable The note of comparation superadding the similitude to the copulation So shall c. is proved by Divine testimony The Lord saith Axiomes 1. Thou canst not number the stars 2. I call to witnesse thine own experience 3. Thy Seed shall not possibly be numbred 4. As not the stars so neither thy seed The respect in the quality So that is to say 1. By reason of the number 2. Conspicuously 3. To men that have skill and experience in numbring it shall be innumerable as the stars are to now thee 5. The Lord saith it shall be so 6. God brought forth Abraham 7. He said c. 8. After he had promised him an heir out of his own bowels he brought him forth and said c. 6. Mat. 13.45,46 The Kingdom of heaven is like c. These words contain a Reddition but set down confusedly the subsequent a Proposition distinctly explicated in a Merchant together with his object and actions And though the reddition be joyned with one only argument of the Proposition where it is said like unto a Merchant yet it is to be understood to be referred to the whole proposition and vertually to involve the analogal parts to its parts So vers 24. The Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man who sowed good seed in his ground Where by our Saviours own interpretation He himself is the sower and to the rest of the parts are applyed those things which are in the Kingdom though not all of the Kingdom Only to the zealous servants he applyes nothing as if he would not have such Ministers named under the Gospel as study or endeavour the killing of Heresie Castellio doth rightly warn us upon Matth. 11.16 The whole matter not one word only is compared as in other parables Out of this Protasis if need were there might axiomes be framed Namely That Merchants doe attentively seek after things of this world that their industry sometimes proves good to them finding things of great valew For the most part they are cunning enough selling all they have for a greater gain buying that which will bring them the greatest commodiousnesse c. Of these things see Chap. 6. Sect. 16. Proper axiomes of the Text. As the Merchant which seeks for pearls so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those who are ordained in the Gospel doe seek for solid good things As a Merchant which findes a Pearl of great value so these by seeking doe find life everlasting As he sels all that he hath to buy that Pearl so they deny themselves to obtain this As he buyes that so they by observing the conditions of the

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 If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4.11 London Printed for Edw. Farnham and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Palace neer Corn-hill 1656. Courteous Reader THis elaborate peece of the Reverend Author William Chappell Bishop of Cork coming to my hands and considering the great advantage the Church of God might reap by it in this Spiritual infatuated age wherein we live the Lords Vineyard being great and the skilful and painful Labourers few the consideration whereof moved me to expose it to publick view hoping it may have that desired effect the reverend Author intended it to viz. for the well instructing and fitting of young Proficients in Divinity to the work of the Ministry that they might by the blessing of the Lord upon their endeavours and these directions speak in due season as the Oracles of God labouring in the heavenly calling as workmen that need not be ashamed which that it may have its desired effect is the hearty desire and expectation of Phil. Christianus A Catalogue of Books Printed and to be sold by Edw. Farnham at his shop entring into Popes-head Palace out of Cornhill Britains Triumph or a History of the Wars and other affairs of Britain from the death of the late King to the third year of the Lord Protector Compleat Doctress or a Treaty of Womens Diseases and their Cures Argalus Parthenia by Fran. Quarls The New-England Psalms Statue Unbowelled being a choise Treatise of Natural Philosophy in English Divine Blossomes or the Yong mans Prospective A Poem The Works of Mr. John Milton concerning Divorce digested into one Volume The Conversion of the Indians in New-England Analysis of the whole Book Of the Method of Preaching the Definition Chap. 1. the parts of it the Doctrine Preparation thereunto the ingress or entrance to the meaning of the place of Scripture in which it is contained Chap. 2. the placing thereof where what Doctrine is Chap. 3. How it ought to be laid Ch. 4. to 11. inclusively Handling of it directly in Explication Chap. 12. Confirmation shewing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 13. by Vindication from objections Ch. 14. the Use which is considered in general Chap. 15. Specifically concerning the Minde as Instruction Chap. 16. Refutation Chap. 17. Heart in its present distemper by Reproof Comfort in respect of the future good by exhortation Chap. 20. evill by dehortation Chap. 21. THE METHOD OF PREACHING CHAP. I. THe Method of Preaching is a discourse upon a Text of Scripture disposing its parts according to the order of nature whereby the accord of them one with the other may be judged of and contained in memory Of the Crypticks or Occultations of this Method in General 1. This Method may be hidden two wayes Namely in shew only or really The first way is when there is really a method and the Preacher hath as it were a clew or line by which he is guided from the beginning to the end of his speech without any straying yet this method is concealed from the hearers partly by not naming in the beginning those heads he means to insist upon and partly by not expressing his transitions from one head to another and lastly disguising both the heads and their connexions under other terms and respects 2. The latter way is when the method is concealed really and this may likewise be done two wayes for I would not set open a gap for digressions or Heterogeneals First by omitting one or two of the principall parts Secondly by intermixing or inverting the order When and which way it must be done ought to be the dictate of his own wisdom CHAP. II. Of the ingress or entrance into the Text of Scripture which is to be treated of THe sparts of the Method are of Doctrine Use In the Doctrine there ought to be considered the Preparation thereunto Handling of it In the Preparation the Entrance to the place where it is Laying of the doctrine it self 1. Of the Entrance If the Preacher intendeth to treat upon some whole Book Psalm or Epistle he must first briefly shew the chief scope of the whole and the parts wherein is the chief use of the distribution of the whole into parts in their greatest extent Then the parts of the first part if it have any and so proceed to the rest 2. Likewise if he undertake the greatest part of some whole treaty first let him shew the scope then set down the parts and shew how that part which he is to handle hath its coherence with the rest and tends to that scope and let him consisider that part first in it self secondly in its relation to the whole 3. Lastly if he takes any particular Text for a subject of a Sermon or two if it be in the Context as many in the Proverbs c. are not let him first shew the connexion of it or the relation to the principal part to which it belongs Or if it begins a treaty let him shew first whereto that whereof this is a member tends and how this conduceth thereunto And let that particular Text be considered first in it self next in the relation if any to that which precedes See an example hereof Chap 4. Sect. 6. Ch. 6. Sect. 17. and elsewhere CHAP. III. Of the raysing of Doctrine 1. WHat Doctrine is I call Doctrine a divine axiome comprehended in the text Of which definition because it seems to mean some novelty I must give some reason for each particular part I. Axiome for I lay this as a ground and foundation That there is nothing true or false unlesse it be an Axiome And therefore whatsoever is revealed to us of Divine Truth for there can be no falsehood in the Word of God is contained in the Axiomes of holy Scripture II. Divine For there are many axiomes in Scripture which are not divine but enunciated by men not spoken by the holy Ghost yea some by the father of Lyes himself yet this makes a divine axiome that such have said such things Mat. 4.6 Saith unto him Cast thy self down he addes a motive If thou be the Son of God he alleadgeth divine testimony for his indemnity For it is written c. Which Scripture rightly cited all the devils of hell cannot make invalid Which shall be better treated of in its proper place for here we will only observe Satans fraud in the allegation and application There are also in Scripture certaine feigned Propositions which by the special priviledge of Comparates doe argue real Redditions and being disposed with their Redditions doe make divine axiomes as also