Excerpt from The Preacher: A Discourse, Shewing, What Are the Particular Offices and Employments of Those of That Character in the Church, With a Free Censure of the Most Common Failings and Miscarriages of Persons in That Sacred Employment Fore this oughtzto fatisfy us; Degreesthat God hath declared his Will concerning. Thele Matters in the Sacred Writings, and therefore we ought heartily to believe them; and as' heartily to reject the idle Gonceits and Fancies of thole Men Who; (notwithliand ing their great Preten'ces toi pmfoundea foning and Arguing) abufe their Wit and Parts, merely to oppofe the Sacred Difco veties. A Now, feeing this was the Conduei of Our} feeing they' examined the Doetrines l fpealt of by Scripture, a'nd im braced them themfelves, and commended them to us on that very Ground how ill will izitbe hear among P'erfons of: lewd Princi 2ples, zand deriders of Religion; if fome of the3 prefent Race of Churchmen', delpilge f) f and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.