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Beside these schoolmasters, we have other Teachers too, all the titles which are given to the Word, do teach us how we should hear the Word The Apostles call their writings Epistles. The Epistle to the Romans, The Epistle to the Corinthians, &c. showing that the Word is like an Epistle sent from God to man, wherein he writes his mind familiarly unto us, and therefore we should read it, hear it, mark it, and scan it, as we would scan a Letter which comes from some of our familiar and dear friends.

Beside these schoolemasters, we haue other Teachers too, all the titles which are giuen to the Word, doe teach vs how we should heare the Word The Apostles call their writings Epstles. The Epistle to the Romanes, The Epistle to the Corinthians, &c. shewing that the Word is like an Epistle sent from God to man, wherein he writes his mind familiarly vnto vs, and therefore we should read it, heare it, marke it, and scanne it, as we would scanne a Letter which comes from some of our familiar and deare friends.

In Mark. 14. the Gospel of Christ is called ⟨p. 654⟩his Testament or Will, showing, that our Legacies are written in it, and that we should hear it, and mark it, and ply it till we be as cunning in Gods will, as we are in our Fathers will. In the first Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy the sixth chapter, the Word is called a charge, and in the second to Timothy the fourth chapter, GOD is called a Judge, showing that we should hear the word of God as we hearken to a Judge, when he gives a charge, or pronounceth a sentence: for every sentence in this book is a charge to the King or the Counsellor, or the Lawyer, or the Preacher, or one, or other, let every one hear his charge.

In Mark. 14. the Gospel of Christ is called ⟨p. 654⟩