A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

3. This also is checked in the Apostles words, the setting forth the beauty of the Gospel by humane Art. The truth of the Gospel shines best in its bare Proposal, and its Beauty in its simple and naked discovery. We may observe from Church-History, that still as Soundness of Doctrine and the Power of Godliness decayed in the Church, the Vanity of an affected way of speaking and writing of Divine things came in. Quotations from the Fathers, Latin and Languages are pitiful Ornaments unto Preaching, if a man design Conversion and Soul-edification. And yet more despicable are all playing on words, Jinglings and Cadencies (which things are in all the Rules of true Eloquence justly exploded) and yet some men reckon much on them. But would any man think his Friend in earnest with him, that would accost him in any affair with such sort of Language and Gesture?

3. This also is check'd in the Apostles words, the setting forth the beauty of the Gospel by humane Art. The truth of the Gospel shines best in its bare Proposal, and its Beauty in its simple and naked discovery. We may observe from Church-History, that still as Soundness of Doctrine and the Power of Godliness decayed in the Church, the Vanity of an affected way of speaking and writing of Divine things came in. Quotations from the Fathers, Latine and Languages are pitiful Ornaments unto Preaching, if a man design Conversion and Soul-edification. And yet more despicable are all playing on words, Jinglings and Cadencies (which things are in all the Rules of true Eloquence justly exploded) and yet some men reckon much on them. But would any man think his Friend in earnest with him, that would accost him in any affair with such sort of Language and Gesture?

(2) The Positive is, in demonstration of the Spirit, and of Power, 1 Cor. 2.5.