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This preaching twice a Sabbath is more¹ then needs, half of it is but prating. And Ministers under the Gospel may take more liberty, and are not tied to such preciseness and severity of life as he used.

This preaching twice a Sabboth is more¹ then needs, halfe of it is but prating. And Ministers under the Gospell may take more libertie, and are not tied to such precisenes and severity of life as hee used.

1. 1Ob.

I will not grace this objection so much¹ as to belong in answering it: The former part of this objection this learned Author ⟨image 26⟩in his Book of Walking with God, and in his Epistle to his last Book dedicated to that religious noble Knight, S•. Robert Car, both by reasons and the constant practise and precepts of the ancient Fathers, preaching twice a day, sometimes every day, hath a bundantly and unanswerably confuted. I will only add two examples of later times, the one of renowned Calvin (the glory² of his age) who Preached or Lectured almost every day, and some days twice▪ which Preachings were so excellent that they were the matter of those laborious and learned Commentaries of his upon the Bible, which occasioned D. Reynolds aptly and truly to call him doctissimus & fidelissimus Scripturae interpres, the most learned and faithful expounder of Scripture. The other of our most precious Jewell, who was a very frequent and constant Preacher, and hastened his own death this way: for, riding to preach at Lacock in Wilt-Shire, a gentleman that met him perceiving the feebleness of his body, (which he had wasted out in such spiritual labours) advised him for his healths sake to