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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

enemies of all righteousnesse which cease not to peruert the right wayes of God Are not Ministers at this day as Fathers to beget Mothers to trauaile-with and bring forth Nurses to nourish Watchmen to warne Souldiers to fight for and Steward 's to giue euery man his portion of meate in due season Yea is not one Minister sometimes a Father a Mother a Nurse a Watchman a Souldier and a Steward at one and the same instant and doth not all this require great power Are there not blinde men at this day that want sight lame that want strength Lepers that need clensing sicke that want health strayers that must be sought out such as are fallen to be raised up dumbe deafe and dead men to be made to speak heare and come out of their graues And doe not such workes require great power If it were but to make a man that is dumbe deafe and blinde to vnderstand it were a matter of great difficulty and requires great power but to raise vp a dead man that hath long slept the sleepe of death will any cold dreamer awake such a sleeper No verily It must be such whose Ministery is attended with power And that there is required wonderfull power at this day consider further that wee haue not onely dead men to raise blinde men to make to see wounded to heale sicke to recouer imprisoned to set free strayers to seeke out lambes to tender sheepe to feede babes to whom wee giue milke and stronger to whom strong meate is belonging but we haue Sorcerers to withstand Beares and Lyons to combate with Philistines to whom wee must goe sonnes of Anake to conquer yea moreouer wee may haue Ahabs to speake vnto Nebuchadnezzars to resist Hamans to contend with Herods to reproue We may haue Pharaohs to march after vs Zedekiahs to disgrace vs publikely Sanballats to oppose and mocke vs Iudasses to betray vs Demasses to forsake vs Halting people to comber vs Alexanders to withstand our words Corahs to raise forces against vs Scribes and Pharises to entrap vs High Priests to scorne vs Pilates to condemne vs Multitudes to slander vs and the truth we teach And if it should so come to passe as it hath befallen our * Wicliffe Husse Luther brethren is not here still a worke of great power should we shrinke in such straights Adde hereunto that the Word is the same for euer yea the words of God are as nayles Eccles 12.11 which being well driuen doe hold with power as goades to prouoke and stirre vp Hosea 6.5 axes to hew and square as fire to burne and torment Ier. 23.29 as an hammer to breake the rockes as arrowes that wound a sword that diuides Psal 45.5 yea a sharpe sword with two edges Heb. 4.12 to diuide betweene the soule and the spirit the ioynts and the marrow And so the Word is at this day quicke and powerfull So that you now see that obiection answered namely it is affirmed That Preaching is alwayes powerfull whether wee respect Gods power vnchangeable Christs promise of the assistance of all power in heauen and in earth the powerfull worke of the Ministery in respect of their charge of the power of the word it selfe that cannot be abated yea that by how much the elder the world waxeth and the riper in sinne and by how much the more all miracles are granted to be now ceased by so much the more power must of necessity appeare 2 Cor. 12. seeing Gods power is manifest in the greatest weakenesse And where sinne most abounds Gods grace in powerfull Preaching aboundeth much more in such as are called Quest Now some may demand what are the effects of powerfull Preaching and how may they be discerned Answere For answere hereunto know that the powerfull effects of Preaching are manifold and they may be considered 1. Either Generally 2. Or Particularly If wee consider them Generally they may be these or such like 1 Spreading 1. First a growing or spreading power as may appeare by some similitudes to which it is compared as that of Ezechiel Ezech. 17. ●2 23 where he expresseth it by a tender twig cut off from the high Cedar and planted on an high and eminent mountaine which bringeth forth boughes and beares fruit and becomes a goodly Cedar that vnder it may dwell all fowle of euery wing euen in the shadow of it Mat. 13.30 31. Or that where the Lord Iesus compares it to a graine of Mustard-seede which is the least of all seeds and yet being sowen groweth vp and becommeth a tree Act. 19.10 And it is expresly said of the Word that it grew powerfully in the Apostles dayes Verse 14. So in this Chapter the same of Christs Preaching was spread abroad throughout all the Region round about Col. 1.6 And the Apostle Paul tels vs that it was in his time spread ouer all the world and so you haue the growing increasing or spreading power of the word Secondly 2 Drawing the word powerfully Preached hath a drawing power And it may be well said of powerfull Preachers they draw more after them with their tongues then Hercules could driue before him with his club It will draw all men to it we may see it in the power and efficacie of Iohn Baptists word Mat. 3.5.7 who knew nothing but the Doctrine and Baptisme of Repentance Yet all the Regions flocked after him and came to his Preaching And when his Disciples told him that all men came to Christ as they had formerly to him he answereth that a man can receiue nothing except it be giuen him from aboue Ioh. 3.26 As if he should haue said Christ hath this power of drawing men after him Ioh. 12.32 from aboue and saith further that the power of Christ in that thing must increase and his power decrease and addeth yet further that therein is his ioy fulfilled Verse 42. And in this Chapter is this confirmed by that when Christ went into a desart place all the people were drawne thither also yea his word was so powerfull that it drew them by multitudes Ioh. 6.14 22.24.25 ouer Sea vnto him so that they would haue made him a King for the word hath a drawing power 3 Searching Thirdly the Word powerfully preached hath a searching power it can enter into the discerning of the inward parts Heb. 4.12.13 It discerneth the secret thoughts and intents of the heart All things are open and naked to the eyes of it 1 Cor. 14.25 It findes out mens purposes layes open their most secret intents yea reueales the very depths of Sathan It can goe into heauen and shew vs what treasures are therein store it can dig into hell and discouer the torments prepared for impenitent and rebellious persons and so you haue the searching power Fourthly 4 Deuiding it hath a deuiding power by which it seuers one thing from another It pierceth euen to the

they partakers of the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God Luke 13.12.16 yea neuer did Christs word more manifestly free that daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteene yeeres that shee could not lift vp her selfe from that diuellish bond then such as are Gods are free and set at liberty by the word preached to runne the wayes of Gods Commandements Isa 61.1 Wee may see it in that Prophesie of Esayas which our Sauiour applyeth to this end Verse 18. in this Chapter where we reade that he is sent to preach deliuerance to the captiues and to set at liberty such as are bruised yea to preach the yeere of Iubilee Verse 19. or the acceptable yeere of the Lord. So is this power promised to all faithfull Preachers in these words Mat. 16.19 18.18 Whatsoeuer you loose on earth shal be loosed in heauen And whosoeuers sinnes you remit Ioh. 20.23 they are remitted Th s our Lord also at another time affirmed where hee saith If you continue in my Word then are you my Disciples indeed Ioh 8.31.32 and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free Vse By this all may be able further to bee confirmed in the truth of their election if they hauing beene by Nature sinnes vassals Ioh. 8.33.34 and in bondage thereunto led captiue by the Diuell at his owne will and by the vertue and powerfull efficacy of the Word are now losed and set at liberty not onely to stand vpright but to walke and to run the wayes of Gods Commandements Try thy selfe then 2 Cor. 3.17 art thou such a free man Where the Spirit is there is this liberty saith the Apostle Paul Art thou then set at liberty by what publike Sermon or Sermons or by what priuate application of the promises to thy soule when or since what time hast thou perceiued the striking off of thy chaines the opening of the prison doore and yron gate of thy sinnes that thou mightest be admitted to the fellowship of the Saints The Word powerfully preached doth heale as well as wound and loose the Elect as binde the reprobate And so much also for the power of loosing which is also proper to Gods chosen people Thirdly 3 Heating the word powerfully Preached doth warme yea heate the cold hearts of poore humbled sinners and in this sence it is compared to fire as Dauid speakes of it Psal 39.3 where hee saith His heart was hot within him and while hee was musing how to be silent in the presence of the wicked the fire burned Ier. ●0 9 And Ieremy resoluing also vpon silence tels vs that this word was in his heart as a burning fire shut vp in his bones insomuch that he was weary with forbearing and could not stay And the Disciples that had Christs company in their way to Emaus say of his conference Did not our hearts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way Luke 24.32 and this is that which the spirit findeth absent in that Church of Laodicea Reuel 3.15.19 Where it wisheth that they were either hot or cold and commands them to be zealous that is to be hot and feruent Vse By this also may wee be further confirmed in the truth of our Election if the word hath warmed or doth heate vs Eph. 2.1 We are cold all by nature as being dead in sinnes and trespasses and so benummed with cold and euen frozen in the dirt of wickednesse if this word haue thawed vs and so also warmed our hearts and doth still heate vs that we can feelingly say we are heated yea our hearts burne within vs in prayer holy conference and in the Preaching of the word and that the heate of it is so great that it euen wasteth vs in the loue of God zeale for his glory and the loue of Gods Church and of all men yea so great is this heate that the many waters of discouragements Cant. 8.6.7 nor flouds of opposition yea our owne rash resolutions cannot quench it but it flasheth out now and then and will not be extinguished this is a notable confirmation of the excellency of our estate and that wee are vndoubtedly Gods Elect and chosen ones seeing this is a power peculiar and properly belonging vnto them Fourthly 4 Comforting the word powerfully Preached hath a comforting power in Gods Elect. It is their comforter in all their troubles this is that which wipeth all teares from their eyes and by which they are dandled vpon the knees of Gods loue Isai 66.11.12 Psal 19.8 So wee reade that the Statutes of the Lord are right reioycing the heart yea this word to Ieremy Ier. 15.16 Psal 119.14 ●0 was his onely ioy It was Dauids comfort in affliction yea hee reioyced as much in Gods word as in all manner of riches It was sweeter to his mouth then hony and the hony-combe Vse This comfort of the word may be also a notable meanes of confirmation to such as are turned to God Let mee say vnto such what is it that delights you Is it the free promises of the Gospell doth the word not onely ioy you in the hearing and in time of prosperitie but also cheare you in suffering and in the greatest trouble and aduersity Is it the word which as a Mother doth dandle thee as a childe on the knees of sound comfort and wipe away all teares from thine eyes be assured that thou art also one of Gods Elect a redeemed one If his powerfull word that hath made thee truely sorrowfull doth also restore sound comforts vnto thee Besides these the powerfull word doth also discouer its power in Gods Elect by killing them 5 Killing yea striking them vnder the fifth rib of their sinnes The word will strike the man of sinne through the forehead as Dauid smote Goliah with a stone from his sling yea it will make sinne fall groueling to the earth and cut off the very head of it It will cut it at the heart and naile it to the very Crosse of Christ Gal. 5.24 as it is written They that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Col. 3.3.4 It mortifies such as are Gods Elect in that manner that they can say They are dead Gal. 2.19.20 and I liue no more They that were dead in sinne are dead to sinne by the power of this word where it is effectually Preached to the Elect. Vse Try wee our selues also by this doe we finde the word so powerfully preuailing that it hath slaine vs and crucified our flesh with the affections and lusts 1 Ioh. 3.8 hath it destroyed the strong holds of sinne and all the workes of the Diuell in vs hath it bound the strong man and cast him out and doth it daily and euery time wee heare Luke 11. mortifie the deedes of the flesh our earthly members Col. 3.4 by this we may