A Sermon Preached at White-Hall, April 19, 1618

              A 4 sermon preached at whitehall white hatl hall hatt april 4pri1r9 ip 1618 i TIM 1115 1.15 115 15.15 15 THIS ISA FAITHFULL SA SAYING YING AND WORTHY OF ALL acceptation THAT CHRIST JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS OF WHICH lam IAM I1 AM THE CHIEFEST HE GREATEST part of the body of the old testament is prophecy THE Tandthatisespeciallyoffuturethingsthegreatestpartofthe new testament if wee number the peeces peaces is epistles relat- ions of things past for instruction of the present they erre not much that call the whole new testament epistle for even the gos pells are evangelia good messages and thats proper to an epistle and the booke of the acts of the apostles is superscribe superscribd by saint lue luke luf to one person to theophilus and thats proper to an epistle and so is the last booke the booke of revelation to the severall churches and of the rest there is no question an epistle is collocution collocutio scri scripta scrlpta schipta pta sales saint ambrose though it be written far off and sent yet it is a conference and sederatos seperatos seperatos copulan copulat cop ulat sayes hee by this meanes wee overcome distances we deceive absences and wee are together even then when wee are asunder and therefore in this kinde of conveying spirituall spirituals comfort to their friends have the ancient fathers been more exercised then in any other form almost all of them have written epistles one of them isidorus him whom wee call pelu cloter saint chrysostom s schollar is noted to have written myriades kyriades Myriades and in those epistles to have interpreted the whole scriptures st paul gave them the example he writ nothing but in this kind and in this exceeded all his fellow apostles ut pateretur paulus quod