are to preach it as freely as they have received it because he that hath the best right to send forth Ministers to minister from him to the people saith freely ye have received freely give fourthly The Ministers of Christ are to preach freely and the people are to hear them as freely so that they neither ought to be hindred from preaching nor the people from hearing And it is the duty of a Minister to preach as well as it is the duty of the people to hear 1 Thes 5.21 and they ought not to receive a Minister before they hear him nor there is no danger if the hearers receive not a Minister untill they have a true proofe and gospel commendation of him as a Minister by manifesting truth unto them in commending himself to their consciences in the sight of God as a Minister of the Gospel of Christ as aforesaid 2 Cor. 3. chap. 2 Cor. 4.1.2 But after God hath ordained and sent forth Ministers and given them a Ministry they are to attend upon it and if men forbid them to preach they must obey God rather then men Act. 4 17,18,19,20 2 Tim. 4.1 â— and in preaching the Word be instant in season and out of season as it is written therefore it is the duty of the true Gospel Ministers to preach when they are forbidden by men because they are to preach both in season and out of season And when is preaching the Word out of season but when by men it is dislik'd and forbidden for saith the Apostle the time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap up to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables as by the Scriptures is evident and plain 2 Tim. 4.3,4 Now seeing the Ministers of the Gospel are to preach both in season and out of season they are to continue stedfast unto God in the work of the Ministry therefore they that give over preaching when men forbids them either never received any ministry from God or else in denying to preach they have denyed the Lord and those are not worthy to be either heard or any more received as the Ministers of God therefore there is no danger in rejecting of them because they have rejected the Lord Jer. 8.9 Hos 4.6 The Ministers of Christ are to be received after they be made manifest to the consciences of the people by manifesting the truth of the Gospel unto them in the sight of him that hath sent them and after they be so manifest the danger is great in rejecting of them Mat. 10.7.14,15 The Ministers of God ought not to be forbidden to preach the Gospel 2 Cor. 4. Math. 10.7.14,15 Mat. 10.40,41,42 Mar. 6.10,11 because they are to be known before they be received therefore it 's necessary that they should preach the word of God that the people may have a manifestation of them in order to the receiving of them because the receiving of them is as the receiving of God and hath the promise of a great reward and the rejecting of them or the forbiding of them to preach is as the rejecting of God therefore after the Minister of God be made manifest to the consciences of the people in the sight of God they ought to be received and yet though the danger of rejecting such be so great the punishment for rejecting of them is not to be inflicted by man but by the Lord because it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorab in the day of Judgment then for such as Christ Jesus hath said The Ministers of Christ are not to be forbidden to preach because they are to commend themselves to the Consciences of those that receives them by manifesting the truth of the Gospel unto them and as it is the Ministers work so to commend themselves to the consciences of the people in order to reception they ought not to be forbidden to preach the Gospel of Christ because preaching the Gospel is the right way and means of manifesting the truth unto them and after they be made manifest to the consciences of the people in the sight of God as his Ministers then it 's the duty of the people Rom. 10.14,15 unto whose consciences they are so made manifest to receive them as the Ministers of God because in receiving of them it 's accounted as the receiving of him Mat. 10.40,41,42 First Mat. 10.7.40,41,42 Mar. 6.12 2 Cor. 7.1,2 They ought to preach the Word of God as well as they ought to be received because God commands it and that 's upon the account of God as it s said he that receiveth you receiveth me Secondly They ought both to preach and be received as they are Ministers of God and righteous Men because the Scriptures and the spirit of truth enjoynes to it and that 's upon the account of their uprightness both to God and Man as they are Gods true and faithfull Ministers First Because the true Ministers of Christ wrongeth no Man Secondly Because they corrupt no Man And thirdly Because they defraud no Man as you may read 2 Cor. 7.2 These therefore who pretend to be Ministers of God and are wrongers of Men and corrupt and defraud them are not to be received as the Ministers of Christ because they are not owned of God but testified against by the Scriptures and also by the spirit of Christ in the true Gospell Ministers Secondly The true Gospell Ministers do not seek to force in themselves upon the people but saith receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man as by the Scriptures is evident and plain 2 Cor. 7.2 Mat. 7.15,16,20,21,22,23 2 Joh. 7,8,9,10,11 But the Ministers of Antichrist cannot truly say so because by their fruites the contrary is manifest therefore such ought not to be received but rather rejected being testified against by the Scriptures and also by the spirit of Christ in the true Gospel Ministers because they are not the Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist and therefore deceivers and wrongers of God and man as is evident and plain 2 Pet. 2. Thirdly 2 Cor. 4.1,2 1 Pet. 1.12 Act. 10.42,43 Act. 4 17,18,19,20 Those who are ordained and commanded by the great God of Heaven to preach the Gospel unto the soules of the people with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven if Men should forbid them to preach when God requires them to preach it is better in such a case to obey God rather then man for it was the duty and practice of the Ministers of the Gospel of Christ when they were forbiden by men in Authority to preach any more in the name of Jesus to disobey such commands or ordinances of men who forbad them to preach by preaching obedience to the command and authority of God who requires it of them as you may read