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A78576	The preacher, or the art and method of preaching: shewing the most ample directions and rules for invention, method, expression, and books whereby a minister may be furnished with such helps as may make him a useful laborer in the Lords vineyard. / By William Chappell Bishop of Cork, sometime Fellow of Christs College in Cambridge.; Methodus concionandi. English	Chappell, William, 1582-1649.; Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1957; Thomason E1707_1; ESTC R209506	52,143	230

to doe Seeing that for as much as belongeth to the thing it is sufficiently contained in that which is first a kin to the connex and may be treated out of its rule CHAP. XII Of the Explication of the Axiome or of the Doctrine HItherto of the preparation to the Doctrine The treating of it followeth First the terms of the axiome are to be explicated according as they are taken in Scripture atd referring them to their place in the body of Divinity That term is alwayes to be explicated first which makes good the way to the understanding of the rest and doth not require the explication of the rest before hand 2. For the fuller explication if need be such questions may be propouuded and resolved as shall seeme to conduce to the better opening of the sense of the axiome as also such illustrations be added as may more throughly imprint them in the minds of the hearers 3. In a single axiome the consequent part as for the most part larger may be first explained in a Composite one let the explication of the antecedent precede and that of the consequent follow 4. He that will explain well ought to be well exercised in Scriptures and in the Idiome of those languages wherein they are written not without respect to the Oriental notions in the Hebrew and the conferring of the same with the Greek not without respect to the Hebrew in the Greek as also to the Greek done by the Septuagint and to the Targum Judaicum for the understanding of both He must not be carryed away by any prejudice he ought to love the truth sincerely and wholly subject himself unto it For the interpretation of words or phrases either single or in Syntaxis he may make use of Phraseologies and Concordances For the finding out of the sense he must look as well to the Analogy of faith expressed in manifest places as to the scope of the place conferring it with other semblable or dissemblable places considering the context and in it the occasion end circumstances of persons place time and finally the coherency with the Antecedents and Consequents CHAP. XIII Of the Confirmation of the Axiome shewing both the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wherefore 1. THe Axiome may be confirmed by parallel places of Scripture and those if possible most evident except those which are no more Divine testimony howsoever they be contained in holy Scripture but as the Scripture saith such a one or such a one spake thus Then by other arguments a posteriori from that which followeth that we shall find in Scriptures 2. Though no weights of reason can adde any thing to the firmnesse of that which is grounded upon divine testimony neverthelesse Scripture being though above yet not against good reason and doth not take away but perfect it it will not be much from the purpose sometimes to make use of reasons and other things as drawn from the art of Nature if they shall be judged fitting easie and profitable for the hearers whereby they may the better relish and retain Divine truth in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the what of it 3. And though also the authority of the Fathers and of the whole Church yea of all creatures being put all together can adde nothing to Divine anthority on which the axiomes of holy Scripture are grounded yet it will not be absurd sometimes to shew that this axiome was received and approved of in this sense by the Ancient Church and its Heroes yea the testimony of those who are without the Church and of the enemies to it may be produced and in some cases is more available then that of its own children 4. Yet these confirmations drawn from humane reason and testimony ought to be brought more sparingly and not without choice having also regard unto the genius of the hearers adding moreover if need be some difference to make a distinction between these and them that are from Divine testimony 5. Though to argue the whole the induction of the severals would be of great moment yet because it would be too prolixe to enumerate the singulars they might be brought under some certain heads by one or more perfect distributions and so the whole be evinced If some instances of many bee brought as they doe of themselves illustrate and exemplifie the whole so if they doe potentially contain the rest or if there be no other thing in the rest to be seen they may very well be thought to have the power of confirmation also 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the wherefore is to be fetched out of the proper cause 7. The proper demonstration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherefore though it be but only one of one axiome yet it may consist of many members as of partial causes which therefore are to be gathered together and in the integrity or wholenesse applyed to the confirmation of the Doctrine 8. The fact is chiefly demonstrated of the efficient out of its faculty end The fact of the agent by reason is demonstrated of him by his directing knowledge power in lawfull things his decreeing will in which may be considered significations by word oath pledge and the like motives from without from within which have a respect to the end and potentially The Power sometimes taken at large may also comprehend knowledge in it 9. The occupated adjunct may be demonstrated of the subject by the formal reason of it c. Crypsis 10. If the confirmation of the the axiome cannot be had in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the what or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherefore in such through the deficiency of matter the rule fails 11. The Historical axiome of the fact where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the what is deficient or wanting may not unfitly be illustrated from the like example shewing how he by whom the saying is made or others in such a businesse have done the like Which though it does not prove this hath been done yet it makes it probable Also causes as probable may be brought which things standing thus and persons being thus affected use to produce such effects CHAP. XIV Of the Vindication of the Axiome from Objections SO hath the treaty of the Doctrine been directed in the Explication Confirmation 1. Though Objections may sometimes be brought usefully against any part of the Method yet it will not be out of purpose to assign a fixed and definite place to those things which are brought or alleadged against the Doctrine or fundamental axiome 2. Objections may arise either out of some other Text of Scripture in shew contradicting ours or out of some reasoning grounded upon the principles commonly received The former are answered by reconciling the places of Scripture one with the other the latter by discovering the weaknesse thereof out of Scripture and true reason Crypsis 3. It will not be advisedly done to buzze many especially subtile objections into the hearers Ears which peradventure would not

The PREACHER OR THE Art and Method OF PREACHING SHEWING The most ample Directions and Rules for Invention Method Expression and Books whereby a Minister may be furnished with such helps as may make him a Useful Laborer in the Lords Vineyard By WILLIAM CHAPPELL Bishop of Cork sometime Fellow of Christs College in Cambridge If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4.11 London Printed for Edw. Farnham and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Palace neer Corn-hill 1656. Courteous Reader THis elaborate peece of the Reverend Author William Chappell Bishop of Cork coming to my hands and considering the great advantage the Church of God might reap by it in this Spiritual infatuated age wherein we live the Lords Vineyard being great and the skilful and painful Labourers few the consideration whereof moved me to expose it to publick view hoping it may have that desired effect the reverend Author intended it to viz. for the well instructing and fitting of young Proficients in Divinity to the work of the Ministry that they might by the blessing of the Lord upon their endeavours and these directions speak in due season as the Oracles of God labouring in the heavenly calling as workmen that need not be ashamed which that it may have its desired effect is the hearty desire and expectation of Phil. Christianus A Catalogue of Books Printed and to be sold by Edw. Farnham at his shop entring into Popes-head Palace out of Cornhill Britains Triumph or a History of the Wars and other affairs of Britain from the death of the late King to the third year of the Lord Protector Compleat Doctress or a Treaty of Womens Diseases and their Cures Argalus Parthenia by Fran. Quarls The New-England Psalms Statue Unbowelled being a choise Treatise of Natural Philosophy in English Divine Blossomes or the Yong mans Prospective A Poem The Works of Mr. John Milton concerning Divorce digested into one Volume The Conversion of the Indians in New-England Analysis of the whole Book Of the Method of Preaching the Definition Chap. 1. the parts of it the Doctrine Preparation thereunto the ingress or entrance to the meaning of the place of Scripture in which it is contained Chap. 2. the placing thereof where what Doctrine is Chap. 3. How it ought to be laid Ch. 4. to 11. inclusively Handling of it directly in Explication Chap. 12. Confirmation shewing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 13. by Vindication from objections Ch. 14. the Use which is considered in general Chap. 15. Specifically concerning the Minde as Instruction Chap. 16. Refutation Chap. 17. Heart in its present distemper by Reproof Comfort in respect of the future good by exhortation Chap. 20. evill by dehortation Chap. 21. THE METHOD OF PREACHING CHAP. I. THe Method of Preaching is a discourse upon a Text of Scripture disposing its parts according to the order of nature whereby the accord of them one with the other may be judged of and contained in memory Of the Crypticks or Occultations of this Method in General 1. This Method may be hidden two wayes Namely in shew only or really The first way is when there is really a method and the Preacher hath as it were a clew or line by which he is guided from the beginning to the end of his speech without any straying yet this method is concealed from the hearers partly by not naming in the beginning those heads he means to insist upon and partly by not expressing his transitions from one head to another and lastly disguising both the heads and their connexions under other terms and respects 2. The latter way is when the method is concealed really and this may likewise be done two wayes for I would not set open a gap for digressions or Heterogeneals First by omitting one or two of the principall parts Secondly by intermixing or inverting the order When and which way it must be done ought to be the dictate of his own wisdom CHAP. II. Of the ingress or entrance into the Text of Scripture which is to be treated of THe sparts of the Method are of Doctrine Use In the Doctrine there ought to be considered the Preparation thereunto Handling of it In the Preparation the Entrance to the place where it is Laying of the doctrine it self 1. Of the Entrance If the Preacher intendeth to treat upon some whole Book Psalm or Epistle he must first briefly shew the chief scope of the whole and the parts wherein is the chief use of the distribution of the whole into parts in their greatest extent Then the parts of the first part if it have any and so proceed to the rest 2. Likewise if he undertake the greatest part of some whole treaty first let him shew the scope then set down the parts and shew how that part which he is to handle hath its coherence with the rest and tends to that scope and let him consisider that part first in it self secondly in its relation to the whole 3. Lastly if he takes any particular Text for a subject of a Sermon or two if it be in the Context as many in the Proverbs c. are not let him first shew the connexion of it or the relation to the principal part to which it belongs Or if it begins a treaty let him shew first whereto that whereof this is a member tends and how this conduceth thereunto And let that particular Text be considered first in it self next in the relation if any to that which precedes See an example hereof Chap 4. Sect. 6. Ch. 6. Sect. 17. and elsewhere CHAP. III. Of the raysing of Doctrine 1. WHat Doctrine is I call Doctrine a divine axiome comprehended in the text Of which definition because it seems to mean some novelty I must give some reason for each particular part I. Axiome for I lay this as a ground and foundation That there is nothing true or false unlesse it be an Axiome And therefore whatsoever is revealed to us of Divine Truth for there can be no falsehood in the Word of God is contained in the Axiomes of holy Scripture II. Divine For there are many axiomes in Scripture which are not divine but enunciated by men not spoken by the holy Ghost yea some by the father of Lyes himself yet this makes a divine axiome that such have said such things Mat. 4.6 Saith unto him Cast thy self down he addes a motive If thou be the Son of God he alleadgeth divine testimony for his indemnity For it is written c. Which Scripture rightly cited all the devils of hell cannot make invalid Which shall be better treated of in its proper place for here we will only observe Satans fraud in the allegation and application There are also in Scripture certaine feigned Propositions which by the special priviledge of Comparates doe argue real Redditions and being disposed with their Redditions doe make divine axiomes as also

the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is set for but as Prov. 23.7 So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 11.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 6.17 7. Because the Discrete as we have said oftentimes doth more clearly deny the affirmed Connex then the negate connex it self and the negate connex sometimes proceeds from feigned parts so the negate connex of feigned parts is oftentimes proposed under notes and after the manner of a Discrete Yea sometimes to deny the stronglier it assumes unto it self a greater feigned part then the Author of the affirmate could probably conceive Wherefore it obtains its chief use under these notes in Scriptures also in amplifications c. It may then be so proposed by the Preacher as it is found in Scripture and more perspicuously then if it were restrained in its own form In the mean while we must know that it is not of the Discrete judgment which requires the truth of the parts but of the Connex and that the Doctrine in parts is no better then the formall negate connex it self But when it assumes a greater seigned part then could be supposed by the Author of the affirmate it may well be explicated by adding the Reddition of a greater feigned part which in such sentences is either to be understood meant or at least doth necessarily follow To this seemes might be referred that of Obad. v. 4. Edom might reason with it self If I strengthen my self in high places for it was a mountainous countrey I shall not be cast down To whom the Prophet saith Though thou exalt thy self as the Eagle though thou set thy nest among the stars thence will I bring thee down not only out of thine high places The judgement is Not if thou didst exalt thy self and not thou should by me be cast down But the same sense is more perspicuously enunciated under quanquam tamen although and yet so Ier. 37.10 c. If any one will contend that these are properly discrete sayings Let him imagin I set down this fection here for his sake because I would breed no contention yet I would not have him think it to be of the Discrete judgement Of the Discrete Negate or denied 8. We seldom meet with a Discrete negate directly or formally If it be denyed by the Copulate or Connex as it may be these are to be referred to its proper Classis CHAP. X. Of the Disjunct or Disjoyned 1. THe judgement of the disjunct truly and properly taken is that one one only is true 2. It exhibites no Doctrine except the absolute if any doe happen but onely it self true in the true disjunction of the parts Luke 16.13 a servant of two masters who command contrary things will either hate the one and love the other or will hold to the one and despise the other Here is a Disjunct with a copulation in each part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other seeme to have the force of a demonstrative as if he should say Either he will hate this and love the other or will hold to this and despise the other Here are two absolutes contained according to the rule Ch. 4. Sect. 14.1 The scrvant will hold to that Master which he loves 2. Him which he hates he will despise The copulation in the parts is suspended by the disjunctive note by which the truth is indetermined either concerning this or that part The axiome it self offers it self to be treated out of these parts Then the relative confideration Because either the one c. therefore no servant can serve two masters 3. Though compleat Disjunct axiomes are not frequent in Scripture yet the disjunctive notes are often found in other axiomes but for the most part loosely taken for the enumeration of parts so far as they consent with the whole not for the disjoyning of them between themselves whereby the truth of the only one may be expressed In which sense they seeme to be taken rather copulatively then disjunctively Yet this enumeration is somet mes founded on perfect disjunction so far as these parts are disjoyned in respect of the singulars under the whole Phil. 1.20 Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death The disjunction is compleat Every magnification of Christ in the Apostles body is either by life or by death by which the parts are voided and it is signified that no singular magnification can be in the body both by life and by death but by one But the Apostle intending another sense doth very fitly apply both parts to the whole Both by life he shall be magnified and by death he shall be magnified And therefore the judgement is copulate See the like example Ch. 8. Sect. 1. Sometimes this enumeration is grounded on incomplete Disjunction as Chap. 8. Sect. ult The thing both wayes comes to one and by the manner of the disposition the judgement of others also will be easie Of the Negate or denyed Disjunct 4. If we meet with a direct negate it yeelds no more axiomes then the affirmate Indirectly it may be denyed by the Copulate affirmed out of negative parts which doth not admit of one true out of the affirmate which doth not admit of an only CHAP. XI Of the Syllogism IF the Text be of a Syllogistical judgement we must frame an Analy sis before it shewing the conclusion then the premises then the Crypsis if any there be So that the Syllogism may appear in its proper form First the several axiomes must be handled Lastly there must be an axiome made out of the premises with a conclusion by the illative note to shew the inference of the conclusion out of the premises It matters not so much to the order whether the conclusion or the premises be first handled but that the series of the words in the Text may end the controversie Seeing that in their absolute consideration they seeme to stand collaterally and though between them there be alway a necessity of the consequence yet there is none such of the consequent But if the Antecedent doe contain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wherefore of the conclusion that is rightlyest treated of in the first place to the end that when you shall be come to treat of the conclusion we may have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wherefore at hand as a thing known before Though in such things the wherefore may be omitted in the treaty of the conclusion because it offers it self soon enough in the last axiome unlesse according to the Crypsis Chap. 4. Sect. 24. it be otherwise disposed 2. If there shall seeme to be no intent of taking away the doubt and the analysis shall proceed well according to the axiomatical judgement though not without rational conjunction and that the full sense of the place may be had by it it will not be necessary to resolve the Text into a Syllogistical consideration every time as we shall have power so