A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

1. Is it so much preaching and hearing Sermons that thou quarrellest with? Hear then how Christ and his Apostles preached, and how they required men to hear. Mark 1. 35, 37, 38, 39. [And in the morning rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed: And Simon and they that were with him followed after him; and when they had found him they said unto him, All men seek for thee: And he said, Let us go unto the next Towns, that I may preach there also; for therefore came I forth: and he preached in their Synagogues throughout all Galilee.] Mark 2. 2. [And straight-way many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them; no not so much as about the door, and he preached the Word unto them.] Mark 3. 19, 20, 21. [And they went into an house, and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread: and when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him; for they said, He is beside himself.] Acts 5. 42. [And daily in the Temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.] Acts 4. 4. [They that were scattered went everywhere preaching the Word.] Acts 20. 20, 28, 31. [I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house—Take heed therefore to your selves and to all the flock over which the Holy-Ghost hath made you Over-seers, to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood—Therefore watch, and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.] Rom. 10. 14, 15. [How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher?] Phil. 1. 18. [Every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached, and I do therein rejoice, yea and will rejoice.]