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A16895	The preachers charge, and peoples duty about preaching and hearing of the Word : opened in a sermon, being the first fruits of a publike exercise, begun in the parish church of Lownd, for the benefit of the island of Louingland in Suffolke / by Iohn Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1631 (1631)	STC 3790.5; ESTC S1527	26,069	42

There was a Necessity lay vpon him for the performance of it that Necessity backt with a Woe if hee should neglect it The like Necessity the like Woe lyeth vpon all the Ministers of the Gospell in their seuerall places and stations They must Preach the Word Woe is vnto them if they doe it not I must not dwell vpon confirmation This was the first and the last charge which our blessed Sauiour gaue to his Apostles when he was to send them forth into the world after hee had told them whither they should goe the first charge he giueth them is As ye goe Preach When hee himselfe was to leaue the world and to take his last farewell of them the last charge he giueth them is Goe ye into all the world and preach the Gospell to euery creature Preaching of the Gospell was the Alpha and the Omega in their Apostolicall Ministration and it is one of the maine businesses which the Ministers of the Gospell must attend vnto They must Preach the Word By way of explication and illustration I will here vnfold vnto you two things What is meant by Preaching what by the Word For the first To Preach in a generall and large acception of the Word is to declare or any wayes make knowne the will of God vnto man In this sense euery declaration of the will of God be it by any of his Mercies Chastisements Iudgements Creatures may improperly be called Preaching The heauens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy work Neuer a Creature in heauen and earth but readeth a Lecture preacheth to the eye of the beholder the mercie wisedome power and goodnesse of God And so in this generall sense Reading may also be called Preaching But more specially and properly in the ordinary phrase of the Scripture Preaching importeth a Ministeriall action wherein the will of God is made knowne to the Church after a speciall manner by the Ministers of the Gospell To speake distinctly The Ministers of the Word being Agents betwixt God and his people their office consisteth in two things 1. In dealing with God for the people 2. In dealing with the people for and from God First they are to deale with God for and on the behalfe of the people to be as it were their Mouthes vnto God in putting vp their suits and supplications and thanksgiuings vnto God in expressing their desires vnto God to pray for them God forbid that I should sinne against the Lord inceasing to pray for you saith Samuel vnto the people And secondly as they are to be the peoples mouth to God in praying for them so they are to bee Gods Mouth to the people in instructing them in declaring his will to them If thou take away the precious from the vile thou shalt be as it were my mouth saith the Lord to the Prophet Ieremy The Prophets of God the Ministers of the Word are Gods mouth whereby he speakes and makes knowne his will to his people The will of God is made knowne to the Church by the Ministers of the Gospell two wayes By Visible signes by Audible voyce By Visible signes The Sacraments which being presented to the Church by hands of the Ministers are as visible words to make knowne and ascertaine to euery beleeuer the eternall gracious purpose the euerlasting good will of God towards him in his Sonne But secondly and principally by Audible voyce By Audible voyce the will of God is declared to the Church by the Ministers of the Word in two Ministeriall actions In Reading in Preaching In Reading the Text the letter of the Scriptures in Preaching interpreting expounding applying them to the edification of the Church Both these Ministeriall actions you haue ioyned together in the practice of Ezra and the Leuites in Nehe. 8. 8. They read in the booke in the Law of God distinctly and gaue the sense and caused the people to vnderstand the reading That which we haue here to deale withall is the last of these Ministeriall actions Preaching properly so called which to speake shortly and fully is an action of the Minister of the Word soundly interpreting and opening the sense of the Scriptures by the Scriptures with Application of them to the vse of the Church by Doctrine Instruction Exhortation Reproofe Conuiction Comfort This is properly Preaching You now see the thing Looke we backe a little vpon the word that will afford vs something worthy our obseruation Preach the word in the originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word borrowed from publike Cryers or Heralds sent from Kings Princes States to proclaime and make knowne their mindes edicts determinations vnto others The Metaphor is no lesse elegant than fruitfull it readeth vs the Ministers of the Gospel a double lesson First what our office is Secondly how we are to behaue our selues in the discharge and execution of that office It first putteth vs in minde what our office is We are Cryers Heralds sent from the Lord of Hoastes the King of heauen from God himselfe to declare and proclaime his will to the Church This was the office of Iohn the Baptist he was a Cryer The voyce of a Cryar in the wildernesse A Cryer sent to proclayme to the world the comming of the Messias to worke the redemption of his people This was the office of the Apostle Saint Paul he was ordayned to bee a Preacher and an Apostle as himselfe telleth vs 1 Tim. 2. 7. 2 Tim. 1. 11. a Preacher the word in both places is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Cryer a Herald one sent from God to proclaime and make knowne to the Gentiles the glad tidings of saluation by Christ. This is our office and secondly it putteth vs in minde How wee are to behaue our selues in the discharge and execution of this office in declaring the will of God to the Church and that in three particulars To whom we are to speake In whose name we are to speake and How we are to speake 1. To whom we are to speake generally to All Criers Heralds they make publike Proclamations that All the people may heare and vnderstand It is the speech of Babshakeh to Eliakim we may make vse of the actions of wicked men as our Sauiour doth of the vnrighteous Iudge in the parable when hee was sent by his Master the King of Ashur as an Herald to giue a summons vnto Hierusalem Hath my Master sent mee to thy Master and to thee to speake these words hath hee not sent me to the men which sit vpon the wall Heralds make Proclamations they speake to all the people Thus must the Ministers of the Gospell declare the will of God publish the glad tidings of saluation offer Christ to all so runs our Commission giuen to the Apostles by Christ himselfe Goe Preach the Gospell to euery Creature that is to Iewes and Gentiles to bond and free of what