PREACHED UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BY ROBERT SOUTH, D.D. PREBENDARY OF WESTMINSTER, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, oxford. A NEW EDITION, IN SEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. III. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON press. MDCCCXXIII. THE CHIEF HEADS OF THE SERMONS. VOL. III. SERMON XXXVII. THE SCRIBE INSTRUCTED, &c. MATTHEW xiii. 52. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. P.3. Christ here gives the character of a preacher or evangelist, 3. in these words; where we are to consider, 1st, What is meant by the scribe among the Jews, either as a civil or a church-officer, 5. 2dly, What it is to be instructed for the kingdom of heaven, 7. 3dly, What it is to bring out of one's treasure things new and old, 8. And then, by applying all this to the minister of the gospel, we are to examine, 1st, His qualifications, 11. viz. 1. A natural ability of the faculties of his mind, 12. judgment, 12. memory, 13. invention, 14. 2. An habitual preparation by study, 15. in point of learning and knowledge, 17. of significant speech and expression, 21. 2dly, The reasons of their necessity, 24. viz. 1. Because the preacher's work is to persuade, 24. |