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

2. When they make themselves the Authors of their own Ministry, undertaking so weighty an employment of their own heads, and running before they are sent, as many did in the Prophet Jeremies time, Jer. 23. 21. And many more in in the late licentious days amongst us, of whom we may say as the Historian said of an obscure person, that he was Homo ex se Natus, they were Concionatores ex semetipsis Nati, self created preachers, as Agathocles, a Prince of a Potter, a ⟨p. 21⟩Preacher of a Trooper, men who made it the principal business of their usurped preaching to disgrace, and pull down legitimate preachers, and beget an undervaluing of those serious principles, which they knew sober and fixed Divines would never desert, and contrary unto which they were resolved to act.

2. When they make themseves the Authors of their own Ministry, undertaking so weighty an employment of their own heads, and running before they are sent, as many did in the Prophet Jeremies time, Jer. 23. 21. And many more in in the late licentious days amongst us, of whom we may say as the Historian said of an obscure person, that he was Homo ex se Natus, they were Concionatores ex semetipsis Nati, self created preachers, as Agathocles, a Prince of a Potter, a ⟨p. 21⟩Preacher of a Trooper, men who made it the principal business of their usurped preaching to disgrace, and pull down legitimate preachers, and beget an undervaluing of those serious principles, which they knew sober and fixed Divines would never desert, and contrary unto which they were resolved to act.

3. When they make themselves the Matter of their preaching, prophesying lies and the deceits of their own hearts, Jer. 23. 16, 26