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I beseech you brethren, we do not use to entreat and beseech, but for our profit, but Paul did beseech them for their profit. We would have other humble themselves to us, but Paul humbled himself to his inferiors, to make them humble themselves to God. Here the Preachers may take example of the Preacher of the Gentiles,¹ the loving phrase is the Apostles phrase, and he which beseecheth shall persuade easier than he which thundereth. Many have been drawn with the cords of love, which could never be haled with the chains of iron. God is love, and his Ministers must speak like love or else they do not speak like Paul: he which fisheth for souls and doth not take his Net, shall fish all day, as Peter fished all night and catch nothing. Although a temperate Preacher be a wise Preacher, and this be our policy ⟨p. 960⟩to entreat and beseech you like Paul, ²yet you should not look to be entreated like the guests which would not come, but to be compelled like the guests which came to the banquet: For you must be entreated to your profit. It is no reason that Christ should pay, and pray: the servant prayeth, but the master commandeth.

I beseech you brethren, we doe not vse to intreat and beseech, but for our profite, but Paul did beseech them for their profite. Wee would haue other humble themselues to vs, but Paul humbled himselfe to his inferiours, to make them humble themselues to God. Here the Preachers may take example of the Preacher of the Gentiles,¹ the louing phrase is the Apostles phrase, and hee which beseecheth shall perswade easier than hee which thundereth. Many haue beene drawn with the cordes of loue, which coulde neuer bee haled with the chaines of iron. God is loue, and his Ministers must speake like loue or else they doe not speake like Paul: he which fisheth for soules and doth not take his Net, shall fish all daie, as Peter fished all night and catch nothing. Although a temperate Preacher be a wise Preacher, and this be our pollicie ⟨p. 960⟩to intreat and beseech you like Paul,