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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

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word it admits of many and diuers significations in the Scriptures In this place it may be taken two wayes First for Christ himselfe who is sometimes in the phrase of the Scripture called the Word In the beginning was the Word That is the eternall sonne of God the vncreated essentiall Word of the Father Christ is called The Word to omit other more witty than solid coniectures principally for two reasons First because he is the summe and substance of that Word that first and great Word that Word of words the Word of promise made by God himselfe to his Church at the beginning and afterwards in effect from time to time renewed and ratified vnto the Patriarchs The seed of the woman shall breake the Serpents head The substance of this promise is Christ himselfe the seed of the Virgin in him this promise is verified and made good and therefore called the Word Secondly he is the Word because by him the will and purpose of God is made knowne to the Church as our mindes are expressed to other men by our words No man hath seene God at any time but the onely begotten sonne of the Father he hath declared him Declared him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall the word signifieth to conduct and direct and leade a man as it were by the hand to the finding out of something that was hid before The will of God was a thing that was locked vp in the breast of his secret counsell a thing hidden from our eies as the purpose of a mans heart is from the knowledge of another Now Christ hath led vs to the knowledge of this will by declaring of it as a mans words lead another to the knowledge of the intents and purposes of his heart and therefore called The Word Secondly by the Word here wee may vnderstand the reuealed will of God made knowne in his Word in the Scriptures specially his will concerning his sonne and the saluation of his people by him The Word of the Gospell The Gospell is called the Word the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole Bible euery part and parcell of it is the word of God but the Gospell is the pith the marrow the quintessence the summe and substance of this word and therefore called by way of eminency The Word of the Gospell That the Gentiles might heare the Word of the Gospell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word by way of eminency This is the Word which the Spirit of God is pleased to honour with so many honourable additions and compellations in the Scriptures sometimes calling it the Word of life the Word of eternall life Master thou hast the words of eternall life saith Peter to our Sauiour The Law is a Word of death a killing letter the Gospell is a Word of life a quickening Word giuing life leading vnto life Sometimes againe the word of Truth In whom yee also beleeued after that ye heard of the Word of Truth Euery word of God is a true word the Gospell is the word of Truth Sometimes the word of the Kingdome Whensoeuer a man heareth the Word of the Kingdome The Word of the Kingdome because by this Word as by his Scepter Christ ruleth like a King in the hearts of his people and by this Word he maketh them Kings bringing them by it to the Kingdome of grace here and of glory hereafter Sometimes againe the Word of saluation To you is the Word of this saluation sent saith Paul to the men of Antioch The Word of saluation because it is the power of God to saluation There is a singular excellency and eminency in this word of the Gospell and therefore here in the text called The Word Now to which of these two interpretations we should incline it matters not there is no materiall difference betwixt them Whether Christ or the Gospell of Christ all commeth to one Christ is the subiect of the Gospell and the Gospell is the doctrine of Christ the sense is still one and the same That which Timothy and the Ministers of the Gospell must preach is nothing but the Word Christ the Gospell of Christ They must preach Christ Him did Philip preach vnto the Samaritans He preached Christ vnto them Him did Paul preach immediately after his conuersion Straightway he preached Christ in the Synagogues To this subiect did he euer confine his preaching We preach Christ crucified Hee preached Christ nothing but Christ I determined not to know any thing among you saue Iesus Christ. Thus must wee preach Christ and the Gospell of Christ They are the expresse words of our Commission Goe Preach the Gospell Here is then the subiect of our Preaching nothing but Christ the Gospell of Christ. True indeed we must preach Moses we must preach the Law but how Wee must Preach Moses as a harbinger to Christ wee must Preach the Law but in reference to the Gospell that we may thereby with Iohn the Baptist Prepare the way of the Lord and make his paths straight that we may by this meanes leuell and smooth the way for Christ that the offer of saluation by him may finde the better entertainment That which we must principally eye and looke at in our Preaching is this Word Christ and the Gospell of Christ. To preach Christ and the Gospell of Christ is a great worke if you would know what it is it consisteth principally in foure Ministeriall actions I will but name them 1. In reuealing of Christ in laying open the truth of doctrine concerning Christ his owne person his two natures Godhead and Manhood his three offices Kingly Priestly Propheticall with the seuerall workes of either the seuerall passages of his incarnation birth life death resurrection ascension intercession comming againe at the last day 2. In reuealing the will of God concerning Christ viz. that it is his will to saue sinners by him and him alone that he hath set him forth as a meanes of reconciliation that he hath giuen him as an all-sufficient sacrifice for the sinnes of the world so making a generall offer and tender of Christ to all that will receiue him as a Sauiour and a Lord. 3. In reuealing the way to come vnto Christ and to God by him viz. By faith and faith alone which is the onely hand and instrument ordayned of God to apprehend and take hold of Christ to apply the merit of his actiue and passiue obedience vnto eternall life 4. And lastly in giuing and applying Christ particularly to euery poore penitent sinner that is heauy laden vnder the burthen of sinne Commanding him in the name of God to beleeue in Christ to receiue him as a Sauiour to take hold of him and to rest vpon him assuring him withall in the name of God that Christ dyed for him in particular and that the merit of his death