Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve…

His manner of preaching was close and searching, and with abundance of affection and compassion to his hearers. He took great pains in his preparations for his public labours, accounting it a cursed thing to do the work of the Lord negligently; and therefore spending usually two or three whole days in preparing for the work of the Sabbath, had his Sermons finished usually on Saturday by two of the clock; He hath sometime expressed himself thus in public▪ ⟨image 4⟩God will curse that mans labours that lumbers up and down in the world all the week, and then upon Saturday in the afternoon goes to his Study, when as God knows that time were little enough to pray and weep in, and to get his heart in frame, &c. He affected plainness together with power in preaching, not seeking abstrusities, nor liking to hover and soar aloft in dark expressions, and so shoot his Arrows (as many Preachers do) over the heads of his hearers.

His manner of preaching was close and searching, and with abundance of affection and compassion to his hearers. He took great pains in his preparations for his publick labours, accounting it a cursed thing to do the work of the Lord negligently; and therefore spending usually two or three whole dayes in preparing for the work of the Sabbath, had his Sermons finished usually on Saturday by two of the clock; He hath some•ime exprest himself thus in publick▪ ⟨image 4⟩God will curse that mans labours that lumbers up and down in the world all the week, and then upon Saturday in the afternoon goes to his Study, when as God knows that time were little enough to pray and weep in, and to get his heart in frame, &c. He affected plainnesse together with power in preaching, not seeking abstrusities, nor liking to hover and soar aloft in dark expressions, and so shoot his Arrows (as many Preachers do) over the heads of his hearers.