: of the Goſpel, abate of my liberty, ſhould not you abate of | it ſelf ſeparately from ſuch circumſtances, the Miniſter may law- _ __ to keep your weak brethrenfrom deſtroying their Souls by | fully enough require and expett ſuch maintenance. k Thar ( faith cal Wane finning againſt God? SE => Apoſtle) I abuſe nor my power in the Goſpel. Some think. It that 16 For though I preach the goſpel, I have nothing - at the word here tranſlated abyſs might b:rter have been rra::.. them to glory of d: * fer necelſlity is Jaid upon me, yea, wo _ ue, a5 1t fignified Chap. 7. 31. But it generally ſignifies a5/-, could IH. -fTrreach not the pofpele O as there isno reaſon to vary from the common uſage of it, accor. _ js unto MC, il 1Þ 5 ks ding to which it teaches us this remarkable Leflon, that fo to uf: - But 3 Though I do preach the Goſpel], yer I have noreaſon at all to liberty which God hath left us asto a&ijons. as that by our uſe af FF: With glory 3 all char I have to glory 1D, is, that I have preached is free- it the Glory of God, or the good of others is hindred, 1s to abaſ- : iniſt: Tv (which your falſe Apoſtles an Teachers do not) tor the preach- it, that is, not to uſe it to that true end fr which God hath b- —_ in :1g of the Goſpel, conſidered without that circumſtance, I have |,,1geq 1c with ir. For this is certain, that God hath bercuſted n- : RT no Inpers od lap "op Fray Fora - __ - _ wa no power or liberty to be uſedto the prejudice of his Glory, , e » © . . -*: pagginys0 eat m(though pw penalties and woes, 1t I do nor do that ; there 1s therefore — —_— — AN try w_—_ {ptct- 1Þ the fa. nothanks I can claim upon that account ; all that I can glory in, any thing, is indeed an ahh _ & of our liberty in righreouſ. 5: that I do it without charge to thoſe ro whom I preach it. Some Ih Honoh. 1 hs F 1 7 abours «x. make 2 doubt, whether there lieth the ſame neceſſiry upon Mini- 9 Or tnOough-1 DE ITee Irom _ mort © Fee have I orks.co the ters now to preach the Goſpel, and they be liable to the ſame dan- made my felf ſervant unto all, that I might gain ” Mart might uſp vers and penalties, if rhey do it not. I ſee no reaſonat all to doubt the more m. WEL 18. 15. ie we are i: for what neceſlity lay upon Paul, or any of the Apoſtles, but | 1 The word men is not in the Greek, but is ſupplied by our in. > F=t-3-v a neceſſiry of Precepr, that 1s, they were obliged to obey the Com- | terprerers. Some make things the Subſtantive, and reſtrain it to | | thinps,, mand of God in the caſe, and liable to ſuch penalties in caſe of ne- |the things of the Ceremonial Law ; it may be underſtood bath of Ir Carnal | [:&, as men are ſubject to, that obey not the Command of God, | men and things ; he was born no man's ſervant, nor by God's Law 7, in fulfilling the duties of their Relations ? Theſame neceſlity, the | made a ſervant ro any mens humours, and as free, as to many o- Gl ſame danger is yet incumbent upon every Miniſter, or elſe we may | ther things, as he wastohave take maintenance of the Chucches,for
rine and$z, 165, becauſe ir of a man, ul for He. erveour bo. 1liry of theſe tter, the A. enance from ompenſation e ; for there d thingscar-
e Minilter of tion of the Goſpel, bur ſo was nor preaching ; if it had, Timothy gs of amuch and Titus would have had no ſuch charge as to that work. Ir is ch lefer and true, Miniſters are not bound to preach in others houſes without
their leave 3 therefore we read very little of the Apoſtles preaching
er you, 4, inthe Temple and Synagegues, nor without the leave of the Jews. But ;
not uſedths ,
| hinder the y
Tirannus, and in his own hired houſe at Rowe, As 28. 3o, 31. For the circumſtance of Numbers, to which they are bound to preach, the holy Scripture hath no where determined, and Miniſters are
e amongſt the 7; that 15, It+ le, Are not we oht not we 45
but preach they muſt if they be ca/ed of Goa, he hath ſent them to it, fitted them for the work, and they have taken it upon them, and wo will be to every Miniſter, ſo called and ſent of God, if he dothnot fulfil his-Miniſtry, as he hath opportunity ; and wiſdom,
might wy coſidering circumſtances, guideth him, ia order to.the end which of £ Apo he is to aim at, and to att for.
ot only obliged 17 ForifI do this thing willingly, I have a reward f::
10 were general f God were not care of allthe at though Chrje f their own Pa them , but alſo F others, whoſe Ir may be uſeful
CGaith the Apo- 1er I nor Ban
that come upol hould hinderths e charge declins zuſneſs, &c.
+ minilter f the temple
mitted to me g.
f1fI who have a liberty to take a maintenance for my labour in the Goſpel, yet notwithſtanding preach it freely, out of a free and chearful mind, defirous to promote the honour and glory of Chriſt, I then may expe& a reward : g bur if I only preach the Goſps), becauſe there 1s a neceſſity laid upon me, all that can be ſd of me, is, that there is ſuch a diſpenſation committed to me. The ſtrength of the Apoſtle's Argument ſeems to lie here, Thatno man can reaſonably expe& thanks, or any extraordinary reward for doing what he is obliged by his Superiors command under a great penalty to do. The Apoſtle was obliged by ſuch a Precepr, and under ſuch penalties to preach the Goſpel ; therefore he deſired not only to do ir, but to do it willingly and readily, a greater teſti. mony of which could not be,thanfor him to do ir, without defiring orexpeting any reward for his pains, but what God of his free
-akers with the Grace ſhould give him ; this madethis matter of glorying to him, which hedefired might not bein vain. So that though the word
{7 here isrruly tranſlated willingly, and oppeſed to «xy, which
| will of God 4s truly tranſlated unw2!/ingly, yer it ſeems to comprehend wirkour ;hat appearet tharge, and taking nothing for his pains, as a demonſtration of his O1d Teftantn BW villngneſs to, and chearful performance of his work, which being the Tribe of 1! athing as to which God had laid him under no neceſſity by any
Precept, was matter of glorying to him againſt the falſe Apoſtles, who did otherwiſe, and alſo a ground for him to expett a greater reward from God, than thoſe who, though they did the ſame vork, yer did it not from the like free and chearful ſpirit.
19 What is my reward then +? Verily, that when Iprexch the goſpel, I may make the goſpel of Chriſt Without charge z, that I abuſe not my power in the
d a livelihood ſo as they neu ands to get bir