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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51323	The wise Gospel-preacher his praise and practice, duty and dignity, opened in a sermon on Eccles. 12. 9. By S.M. minister of the Gospel	More, Stephen.	1650 (1650)	Wing M2687; ESTC R213884	133,568	256

also therefore ought to be found likewise faithful Servants thus doing Mat. 24.45 I say Every wise Preacher is able to teach the people the good knowledge of God I do not say Every Preacher or every one that is called a Preacher or so calls himself but I say every one that God owns for a Preacher and is truly a wise or spiritual Preacher is able to teach the people and ought so to do as John saith That which we have seen and heard and our hands have handled of the Word of Life declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us 1 John 1.3 Mark What every wise Preacher can and doth do even declare the things of God or the knowledge of Jesus Christ to the people and he can and doth endeavour that the people may be brought into the fellowship and enjoyment of their knowledge Those are foolish Preachers Lords over God's Heritage evil Servants and Self-seekers that ingross knowledge for themselves and design not the peoples knowledge as one main end of all that knowledge they enjoy or design to be made partakers of And thus much for the clearing of this Doctrine That it is the duty of every wise Gospel-Preacher to make the people wise and knowing in the Mystery of Christ Now to come to the Application The first Vse is of Information If this be Preachers Business and Duty to teach the people knowledge then this informs us how unwise and foolish Romish Preachers are even the Pope and his Prelates and Clergy who are so unwise and ignorant of Gospel-Truths and Principles that they not onely neglect and oppose this practice but teach and maintain that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion and that knowledge is enough for the Priests and the people must hang their Knowledge and Faith upon their Priests Sleeves and that t is sufficient for the people to do that the Priest commands and believe as the Church believes But this is to endanger the people to Hell with great Company rather than to be saved by the Faith of the Church I shall not say much to this Generation of Vipers these idle Shepherds these blind Guides leaders of the blind World only let such know we shall not need to say they are foolish Shepherds and Peter's unlearned ones and none of Solomon's wise Preachers their own Works and Words are sufficient to make their madness manifest to all wise men or spiritual Believers seeing what every wise Preacher doth and ought to do is even to teach the people knowledge which they neither do nor judge they ought to do This shall suffice for this first Use The second Use is of Exhortation Let this serve for matter of Exhortation to all Gospel-Preachers to make this their main business to shew themselves truly wise and able Preachers even Workmen that need not be ashamed by teaching the people Knowledge God hath given you Talents for this very purpose and the peoples wants and expectations call loudly for this namely that you should be their Lights and Teachers of them as your Scholars and Children therefore intend and attend this as your great Work and Business in or by Preaching to make the people wise and more knowing in the saving and sanctified Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Beloved Brethren this is your and my Business let us give all diligence to add and contribute more and more to the peoples knowledge doing as Paul Not seeking our own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor. 10.33 Though wise Preachers must acquire knowledge first for themselves that they may wisely Preach or be wise for Preaching Yet having obtained knowledge in themselves they must disperse knowledge to their people and lay out all their endeavours that the people may know what they know This Paul did make his business to make the Ephesians to understand his knowledge in the Mystery of Christ Ephes 3.4 When you read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ Mark Paul is not content that he understand but he Writes and Preaches to make others understand his knowledge in Christ's Mysteries not that his aim was to make them understand or know that he had knowledge or understanding to admire or depend upon him but that they might know in and for themselves what he knew in himself and for them he laboured that the people should know and understand what of Christ he understood and this seems to be his meaning by what we find in vers 8 9. where Paul saith That unto him less than the least of all Saints is this Grace given That I should Preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ But mark the end for which Paul and every Gospel-Preacher should Preach the unsearchable riches of Christ namely to let all men see this is the end of Preaching the peoples Seeing Oh Preach Seeing or Divine eye-sight into the people infuse or distil your knowledge or Christ's knowledge into the people that you may be rightly called as the Prophets were of old time even Seers from seeing and shewing the mind of God to the people 1 Sam. 9.9 Beloved cause the Scales of Ignorance to fall from the eyes of the blind and ignorant people Pity the people and shew your burning love to Christ by enlightning dark minds in the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus in striving to promote and enlarge the peoples knowledge help the people to come to this necessary knowledge the knowledge of themselves The want of this knowledge is the cause of the great prophaneness security and presumption that abounds in the World men's gross ignorance of themselves men want true and sufficient acquaintance of themselves of their sinful miserable lost estate by Nature Oh! cause all men in their first Principle and unconverted Estate to know they are in a damnable and miserable condition there is but one step between them and Hell For God is angry with the wicked all the day long or every day Psal 7.11 Make them know there is none good in his natural condition there is none good no not one that doeth good no not one among all the multitude of unconverted Men and Women for all are under sin both Jews and Gentiles Rom. 3.9 12. Awaken mens Consciences that are asleep to know and consider the danger of a sinful Christless condition yea make not only Publicans and Sinners know this to be their miserable estate but make Pharisees and morally righteous Ones to know this to be also their misery and that except they be born again of Water and of the Spirit they can never enter into the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.5 'T is not onely Drunkards Swearers Whoremongers and Scoffers cannot enter into the Kingdom of God but also the lostiest pieces of Nature that are but in a state of Nature as it is written Except your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat.

exhort and quicken you that have ears to hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches Take heed that you despise not prophesying 1 Thess 5.20 Christians despise not Christ's day of small things Since out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings he will ordain strength because of the enemy and avenger Psalm 8.2 compared with Matth. 21. Say not in your hearts as once Nathaniel did Can any good thing come out of Nazareth John 1.46 But take heed you despise not him that speaketh on Earth lest that sad word be your word For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this People Read that Chapter at your leasure and you shall see how dreadful God speaks to despisers of this Ordinance of Preaching though by mean and outwardly contemptible Instruments My Beloved know God oft-times hangs great Blessings at the end of small Wyers How great a victory did God give Israel by that Barley Cake as Gideon is called Judg. 7.13 14 15 16. As also how great a Blessing did Naaman the Syrian receive by hearing the Voice of his Servants 2 Kings 5. Yea how great advantage did this very Ordinance bring to the Jews and Greeks when the scattered Saints and Brethren went up and down Preaching and Prophesying Acts 11.19 20 21. Therefore despise not Prophesying I mean Preaching by Brethren that are gifted thereunto although not Ministers or Officers in the Churches So much for this second Doctrine I should now come to speak to the third Point or Doctrine which is Doct. 3. That if Preaching be God's Ordinance and Prophesying and Preaching by Men of Grace and Gifts though no Ministers or Ordained Persons may lawfully Preach then such as are Prophets though no Ministers or Officers of the Church not only may but ought to Preach But because I have spoke something to this in the close of the second Doctrine I shall say no more to this but proceed to the fourth and last Doctrine upon this Head which is drawn from the Description of the qualification of this Prophetical Preacher Solomon to wit That he was Wise as you have it in the Text Moreover because the Preacher was Wise Whence take this Observation to wit Doct. 4. That every Gospel preacher ought to be truly wise or that Grace and Spiritual Wisdom are the true and onely and sufficient Requisites or sufficiency for Gospel-preaching Let me in the carrying on this Work first clear this Point and shew what this Wisdom which every Preacher ought to have is 2ly Give the Reasons why what is affirmed to be the Wisdom required is that which is affirmed And 3ly Resolve some Objections And lastly Make Application of the Point First Take some Witnesses that Gospel-Preachers ought to be Wise This the Lord tells us ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ that qualification that all such ought to have aâ— draw near him in any peculiar or especial way oâ— service or ministration as you have it laid dowâ— by Moses in that saying Take you wise men ye understanding and known men among your Tribes anâ— I will make them Rulers over you And maâ— what is further said And ye answered me anâ— said The thing which thou hast spoken is good foâ— us to do So I took wise men and known eveâ— the chief of your Tribes and made them Heads ovâ— you this is God's and Moses way for the serving of Israel Deut. 1.13 14 15. Again takâ— that place Prov. 15.2 where you have this expression The Tongue of the Wise useth knowledge a right but the mouth of Fools poureth out foolishness Oh mark it is the wise tongue that wilâ— Preach or use Knowledge aright compare thiâ— with what we have Vers 7. The lips of the Wisâ— disperse Knowledge but the heart of the Foolish doth not so It is wise lips either can or ought to Preach or dispense Divine Knowledge Again take that Passage of our Lord Jesus where he tell us what every Scribe or Teacher in Israel should be one instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven like unto a man that is a Housholder that bringeth ouâ— of his Treasury things both new and old Oh! this is the good Scribe or Preacher Mat. 13.52 the like you have Matth. 10.16 with Prov. 1.5 6. further you have this confirmed That a Preacher or Director of others should be wise Eccl. 1.10 for he that sendeth a Message by the hand of a Fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh dammage The legs of the Iame are not equal even so is a Parable in the mouth of fools Prov. 26.6 7. By all which with many Testimonies more that might have been offered you have this Truth confirmed That every Gospel-Preacher ought to be wise Now I come to open the Point and shew you what it is to be Wise or what that Wisdom is that every Gospel-Preacher ought to have I told you in the opening of the words by way of Negation that the Wisdom spoken of in the Text was neither natural moral or acquired Wisdom as Languages Tongues Arts or Sciences but a more sublime and transcendent Wisdom I told you God had not set this Ax or Hammer apart to do his or this Work with these Tools are strangers to any Divine designment for such an end being neither appointed or required in Scripture I told you secondly This Wisdom is but a carnal or natural Weapon and is only meet for carnal natural weak and worldly work and for such purposes this Learning or Wisdom is very fit and useful but no more apt or necessary essentially for Preachers or Preaching than a Sword is to cut ones Beard with or a Plough to ride a Journey on But the Wisdom absolutely necessary for Preaching or a Preacher is Divine Wisdom as I told you which descends from Above more immediately and comes from the Father of Lights and this is that true Wisdom which is put in opposition to the Wisdom before mentioned 1 Cor. 1.17 where the Apostle saith Christ sent him not to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel not with wisdom of words lest the Cross of Christ should be of none effect Mark it 's worldly Wisdom or the wisdom of words maketh Christ's Cross to be made ineffectual this is the likelyest good worldly Wisdom wilâ— do in Preaching The same thoughts was thâ— Apostle Peter of censuring humane Wisdom thaâ— it might and did furnish men to pervert but noâ— Preach the Gospel where he saith As also in a his Epistles speaking in them of these things iâ— which are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as theâ— do also the other Scriptures unto their own destruction Ye therefore Beloved seeing you know thesâ— things before beware lest you also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your owâ— stedfastness 2 Pet. 3.16 17. Now if you would know who these unlearned and unstable wresteâ— and perverters of Paul and of all Scriptures are Peter tells us not men wanting Arts and Languages such knew

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