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

Lastly, our Lives and Examples must teach the people as well as our doctrine, we must be like the Star which did not only lighten the wise men, but lead them unto Christ, Matth. 2. 9. He who by his wicked life buildeth again those things, which by his holy doctrine he destroyed, maketh himself a transgressor, Gal. 2. 18. verbis tantum philosophari non doctoris est sed historionis. It is rather pageantry than serious piety, for men to ⟨p. 19⟩preach Angelical Sermons, and to live diabolical conversations, ut dicta factis deficientibus erubescant, as Tertullian speaks. We cannot expect that other men should follow our doctrine, when we our selves forsake it, the greatest part of men being like sheep, which go non qua eundum sed qua itur, rather as they are led then as they are taught. And so much of the duty here supposed, the excellency, necessity, and manner of preaching.

Lastly, our Lives and Examples must teach the people as well as our doctrine, we must be like the Star which did not onely lighten the wise men, but lead them unto Christ, Matth. 2. 9. He who by his wicked life buildeth againe those things, which by his holy doctrine he destroyed, maketh himself a transgressor, Gal. 2. 18. verbis tantum philosophari non doctoris est sed historionis. It is rather pageantry than serious piety, for men to ⟨p. 19⟩preach Angelical Sermons, and to live diabolical conversations, ut dicta factis deficientibus erubescant, as Tertullian speaks. We cannot expect that other men should follow our doctrine, when we our selves forsake it, the greatest part of men being like sheep, which go non qua eundum sed qua itur, rather as they are led then as they are taught. And so much of the duty here supposed, the excellency, necessity, and manner of preaching.