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First, You see how Ministers of the Gospel should come to a place, with gentleness, and cheerfulness, and manifest a sweetness of Spirit, in coming to any place; and so to gain upon people that way. In Lev. 24 2. The Lamps in the Temple were to be of pure Oil Olive, beaten, to note that the Lights that God sets up in his Church should be of peaceable and gentle Spirits, of sweet Spirits; You know that the Olive it is the emblem of peace and sweetness. So in Rev. 12. 4. The Two Witnesses there, which especially are the Ministers of the Gospel; they are said to be the Two Olive ⟨p. 138⟩Branches. Those who Christ sends, especially to witness to himself and unto his Truth, they are to be Olive Branches, Men of peaceable, and gentle, and loving dispositions. So we find that the Apostle St. Paul saith concerning himself, 1 Thes. 2. 7. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. So in 2 Tim. 2. 24. The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give a general repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.

First, You see how Ministers of the Gospel should come to a place, with gentleness, and chearfulness, and manifest a sweetness of Spirit, in coming to any place; and so to gaine upon people that way. In Lev. 24 2. The Lamps in the Temple were to be of pure Oyle Olive, beaten, to note that the Lights that God sets up in his Church should be of peaceable and gentle Spirits, of sweet Spirits; You know that the Olive it is the emblem of peace and sweetness. So in Rev. 12. 4. The Two Witnesses there, which especially are the Ministers of the Gospel; they are said to be the Two Olive ⟨p. 138⟩