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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33725	The old apostolical way of preaching, or, Peters last legacy to all his true successors in the ministry and faith of the Gospel being an awakening word from a dying-preacher to his dying-hearers in a sermon preached on the death of Mr. Edward West, late minister of the gospel in London / by Thomas Cole ...	Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697.	1676 (1676)	Wing C5032; ESTC R43106	10,675	23

THE Old Apostolical Way OF PREACHING OR Peters last Legacy to all his true Successors in the Ministry and Faith of the Gospel BEING An awakening Word from a Dying-Preacher to his Dying-Hearers IN A SERMON Preached on the Death of Mr. EDWARD WEST Late Minister of the Gospel in London BY THOMAS COLE Preacher of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockeril at the Atlas in Cornhil 1676. THE OLD Apostolick Way of Preaching 2 Pet. 1.12 13 14 15. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though you know them and be established in the present Truth Yea I think it meet as long as I am in this Tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle even as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my Decease to have these things always in remembrance I Do not so much intend a Funeral Elegie for the Dead as a plain Practical Sermon for the Living The Dead know not any thing neither are they any more concerned in the things that are done under the Sun Yet we may draw Arguments from their Graves to quicken us to our Duty 'T is evident that this great Apostle had Death in his eye when he wrote these words whether those to whom he wrote were under the like consideration of their own Mortality is uncertain Peter being so solicitous here to put them in remembrance seems tacitly to charge them with a careless negligent forgetful frame of Spirit and those who do not bear in their minds the great Truths of the Gospel that shew the Consequents of Death and so make it weighty and considerable in our Thoughts can never seriously prepare for it He tells them he is but a Sojourner amongst them in a Tent and Tabernacle intimating that they themselves dwelt under as thin a Roof that might suddenly let in Death upon them which he foresaw was not far off from himself this stirred him up to a more diligent and vigorous performance of his Duty He is very desirous to finish and perfect his Work before the Night comes upon him that he might not Run in vain nor Labour in vain but throughly fix those Truths upon the Hearts and Consciences of his People which he had Preached to them that they might Remember them when he was Dead and gone The Text is An awakening Word from a Dying Preacher to his Dying Hearers I know I am engaged in a Funeral Sermon but it is upon the Death of a Minister and to a Congregation who by this sad Providence are called to the Choice of a new Preacher And therefore if in the former part of my Discourse I say something of the Nature of Preaching of the old Apostolick Way which God did so wonderfully own in the Primitive Times and unto which we must certainly return before we can expect the like Success in our Ministry I hope if I do insist a little upon this you will not judg it wide of the Occasion or altogether unseasonable But if any do let them know that the Circumstance of the season must give place and yield a little to the Substance of the Text which by and by will sute that also Therefore I must crave a little time to shew you the general Scope and Design of the Apostle in these words afterwards I shall more particularly speak to the 15th verse which will bring me nearer to the present Occasion And because many particulars in a Sermon do usually run out into new matter carrying the Speaker sometimes both beyond the Text and his own Intentions to avoid this I shall cast my whole Discourse into this Method and couch all I have to say under these two General Heads which I will insist upon 1. The Old Apostolick way of Preaching that was so much upon the Heart of Peter just before his Death 2. His last Legacy to all his true Successors in the Ministry and Faith of the Gospel The shortness of Time both to prepare and deliver what I have now to say must excuse that want of Method and Exactness that suddain Things are usually defective in I begin with the first viz. The old Apostolick way of preaching in laying down the plain Fundamental Truths of the Gospel proving them by Scripture and frequently minding the People of them by way of Remembrance this was Christ's Method Luke 24.27 44 45. 'T is the Method of the Holy Ghost to bring things to our Remembrance and for this very end was the Holy Spirit promised to the Church John 14.26 But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you 'T was Iohn's Method 1 John 2.21 I have not written unto you because you know not the Truth I but because you know it and that no lie is of the Truth I must tell you what you know already that is the way to know more 't was Paul's Method Phil. 3.1 To write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe 'T was that he advises Timothy to 1 Tim. 4.6 7. If thou put the Brethren in Remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good Minister of Iesus Christ nourished up in the words of Faith and of good Doctrine whereunto thou hast attained But refuse profane and old Wives Fables and exercise thy self rather unto Godliness 2 Tim. 2.14 15 16. Of these things put them in Remembrance charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the Hearers Study to shew thy self approved unto God a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth But shun profane and vain Bablings for they will encrease unto more ungodliness 'T was the desire of those Gentiles which Paul and Barnabas complyed with with very great Success Acts 13.42 to hear the same words preached to them the next Sabbath 'T was Peters design in his Epistles 2 Pet. 3.1 2. This second Epistle Beloved I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure Minds by way of Remembrance That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the Holy Prophets and of the Commandment of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour As appears also in the words of the Text. The first Sermon that was preached after the coming down of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles was by Peter Act. 2. And three thousand Souls were converted by it to shew the mighty Efficacy of the Spirit of God and the power of a plain Gospel-Sermon for it was no other but a plain Narration of those Things that concern the Power and Coming of Jesus Christ. 2 Pet. 1.16 For we have not followed cunningly devised Fables when we made known unto you the Power and coming of our Lord Iesus