Preaching of Christ opened in a sermon preached at St. Peters Church in the…

5. With meekness and all winning insinuations, that there may appear nothing but love and gentleness in every thing which we deliver; as the Apostle professeth to the Thessalonians, that he ⟨p. 17⟩was gentle among them, as a nurse cherisheth her children, 1 Thes. 2. 7. and exhorteth Timothy and other spiritual persons with meekness to instruct opposers, and to restore such as are overtaken with any fault, 2 Tim. 2. 24, 25. Gal. 6. 1. It is an excellent Character which Saint Austin giveth of a preacher, that he should so manage his Office, ut doceat, ut delectet, ut flectat, ut intelligenter, ut libenter, ut obedienter audiatur. So to teach as withal to delight and persuade, and by a constraint of love to gain willing and cheerful obedience to the doctrine which he teacheth.

5. With meeknesse and all winning insinuations, that there may appear nothing but love and gentlenesse in every thing which we deliver; as the Apostle professeth to the Thessalonians, that he ⟨p. 17⟩was gentle among them, as a nurse cherisheth her children, 1 Thes. 2. 7. and exhorteth Timothy and other spiritual persons with meeknesse to instruct opposers, and to restore such as are overtaken with any fault, 2 Tim. 2. 24, 25. Gal. 6. 1. It is an excellent Character which Saint Austin giveth of a preacher, that he should so manage his Office, ut doceat, ut delectet, ut flectat, ut intelligenter, ut libenter, ut obedienter audiatur. So to teach as withal to delight and perswade, and by a constraint of love to gain willing and chearful obedience to the doctrine which he teacheth.