CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

The last Doctrine, In that Christ saith, He had declared or given Gods Word to his Disciples.

¹Obs. That the Ministers duty is to deliver only Gods Truth to his hearers; Christ twice saith this, I have delivered thy words, and in another place, My Doctrine is not mine, but my Fathers which sent me; Thus Paul 1 Cor. 11. That which I have received of the Lord deliver I unto you; We should preach only Traditions in this sense, not Popish unwritten Traditions, but that doctrine which we have received; Hence Paul so pathetically exhorts Timothy 1 Tim. 6.20. Keep that which is committed to thy Trust, not that which he had invented, not that which came out of his own heart, but what was deposited in his hands, Aurum accepisti, aurum read, Religion is not res ingonii but doctrinae: Now in this the Ministers of God are to deliver,

¹Obs. That the Ministers duty is to deliver only Gods Truth to his hearers; Christ twice saith this, I have delivered thy words, and in another place, My Doctrine is not mine, but my Fathers which sent me; Thus Paul 1 Cor. 11. That which I have received of the Lord deliver I unto you; We should preach only Traditions in this sence, not Popish unwritten Traditions, but that doctrine which we have received; Hence Paul so pathetically exhorts Timothy 1 Tim. 6.20. Keep that which is committed to thy Trust, not that which he had invented, not that which came out of his own heart, but what was deposited in his hands, Aurum accepisti, aurum redde, Religion is not res ingonii but doctrinae: Now in this the Ministers of God are to deliver,

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