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

3. Preach Christ Jesus the Lord, determine to know nothing among your people but Christ crucified, let his name and grace, his spirit and love triumph in the midst of all your Sermons. Let your great end be to glorify him in the hearts, to render him amiable and precious in the eyes of his people; to lead them to him as a Sanctuary to protect them, a propitiation to reconcile them, a treasure to enrich them, a Physician to heal them, an Advocate to present them and their services unto God: as wisdom to counsel, as righteousness to justify, as sanctification to renew, as redemption to save, as an inexhausted fountain of pardon, grace, comfort, victory, glory. Let Christ be the Diamond to shine in the bosom of all your Sermons.

3. Preach Christ Jesus the Lord, determine to know nothing among your people but Christ crucified, let his name and grace, his spirit and love triumph in the midst of all your Sermons. Let your great end be to glorifie him in the hearts, to render him amiable and precious in the eyes of his people; to lead them to him as a Sanctuary to protect them, a propitiation to reconcile them, a treasure to enrich them, a Physician to heal them, an Advocate to present them and their services unto God: as wisdom to counsel, as righteousnesse to justifie, as sanctification to renue, as redemption to save, as an inexhausted fountain of pardon, grace, comfort, victory, glory. Let Christ be the Diamond to shine in the bosom of all your Sermons.

4. Serve the souls, not the wills or lusts of men. Consider the worth of souls, their excellency, their immortality, the price that bought them, the sin which defiles them, the curse which destroys them, the grace which renews them, the glory which blesseth them. Consider the vigilancy of Satan who goeth about to devour them. His malice and industry, his power and policy, his sophisms and devices, his artifices and temptations, the indefatigable diligence, and various methods he useth to destroy them, against whose engines and machinations our Ministry is appointed. Is it a small sin to gratify Satan by neglecting to save those precious souls which he seeketh to ruin? Is it a small sin by our carelessness to betray such souls as those, and our own with them, to the peril of eternal perdition? Shall we be able to endure the hideous outcry of destroyed souls wherewith we had been entrusted, howling out that doleful accusation against us, Parents sensimus parricidas, our Guides have misled us, our Watchmen have betrayed us,