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

Consider it as a Rule of living, and so also it sends us unto Christ. 1. His spiritual Doctrine openeth the sense and wideness thereof unto us, for his commandment is exceeding broad, this was one great end of his Sermon in the Mount to vindicate the Law from the narrow glosses which had been cast upon it. 2. His most holy example leads us in the way of it, that we may walk as he walked, 1 Pet. 2. 21. 1 John 2. 6. 3. His holy Spirit and Grace, and his love shed abroad in our hearts, enable and constrain us to the obedience of it, I am able, saith the Apostle, to do all things through Christ who strengthened me, Phil. 4. 13. We must ⟨p. 35⟩never preach the Law without Christ. As it was delivered, so it must be preached, In the hand of a Mediator, Gal. 3. 19. when we discover the disease we must show the Physician. So God to Adam, 1. Conviction, where art thou? then consolation, the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpents head, Gen. 3. 9, 15. So John Baptist, to the multitude, first generation of Vipers, then, bring forth fruits worthy of Repentance, Luke 3. 7, 8. So Christ to Laodicea, first, thou▪ art poor, and blind, and naked: then, I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried, Rev. 3. 17, 18. Thus Omnia Agenda lead to Christ.

Consider it as a Rule of living, and so also it sends us unto Christ. 1. His spiritual Doctrine openeth the sense and wideness thereof unto us, for his commandment is exceeding broad, this was one great end of his Sermon in the Mount to vindicate the Law from the narrow glosses which had been cast upon it. 2. His most holy example leads us in the way of it, that we may walk as he walked,