The application of redemption

When the Language and Words are such as those of the meanest Capacity have some acquaintance with, and may be able to conceive; when the Preacher¹ […] his Speech to the shallow understanding of the Simplest Hearer, so far as in him lies,² always avoiding the frothy tinkling of quaint and far […] […], which take off, and blunt as […] were the edge of the blessed Truth and Word of God: […] the Apostle rejects the wisdom of Words as that which makes the Cross of Christ; that is, The Doctrine of Christ Crucified, revealed in the Gospel, to lose his proper and powerful effect when it is lo Preached; where let it be observed that it is not only the vanity and emptiness of Words which is here condemned, but even that pompous gaudiness, and elegance of […], which after an unsuspected manner steals away the mind and affection from the truth, and stays it with it self, when it should be a means both to convey both Attention and Affection from it self to the truth. He that puts so much Sugar into the Potion, that he hinders the strength, and the work of it by such a kind of mixture; though he please the Palate of the […], yet thereby […] ³wrongs both the Physic, and his Health. So here⁴ in Preaching.

When the Language and Words are such as those of the meanest Capacity have some acquaintance with, and may be able to conceive; when the Preacher¹ 〈…〉 his Speech to the shallow understanding of the Simplest Hearer, so far as in him lies,² alwayes avoiding the frothy tinkling of quaint and far 〈…〉 〈…〉, which take off, and blunt as 〈…〉 were the edge of the blessed Truth and Word of God: 〈…〉 the Apostle rejects the wisdom of Words as that which makes the Cross of Christ; that is, The Doctrine of Christ Crucisied, revealed in the Gospel, to lose his proper and powerful effect when it is lo Preached; where let it be observed that it is not only the vanity and emptiness of Words which is here condemned, but even that pompous gaudiness, and elegancy of , which after an unsuspected manner steals away the mind and affection from the truth, and stayes it with it self, when it should be a means both to convey both Attention and Affection from it self to the truth. He that puts so much Sugar into the Potion, that he hinders the strength, and the work of it by such a kind of mixture; though he please the Pallat of the , yet thereby