or what they should teach, since the Holy Spirit makes them
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saying of our Lord's, as better suited to the wants of a pious mind : " Take no thought how or what ye shall speak ; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak/but the Spirit of your Father which spcaketh in you."^ The Holy Spirit, then, speaks thus in those who for Christ's sake are delivered to the persecutors ; why not also in those who deliver Christ's message to those who are willing to learn ?
Chap. x\i.—Human directions not to be despised, thoujJi God makes the true teacher.
33. Now if any one says that we need not direct men how or what they should teach, since the Holy Spirit makes them teachers, he may as well say that we need not pray, since our
Lord says, " Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him ;" ^ or that the Apostle Paul should not have given directions to Timothy and Titus as to how or what they should teach others. And these three apostolic epistles ought to be constantly before the eyes of every one who has obtained the position of a teacher in the Church. In the First
Epistle to Timothy do we not read : " These things command and teach " ? ^ What these things are, has been told previously. Do we not read there : " Eebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father " ? * Is it not said in the Second
Epistle : " Hold fast the form of sound w^ords, wliich thou hast heard of me " ? ^ And is he not there told : " Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth " ? ^ And in the same place : " Preach the word ; be instant in season, out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all loug-suftering and doctrine."^ And so in the Epistle to Titus, does he not say that a bishop ought to " hold fast the failliful word as he hath been taught, that lie may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers " ? ® There, too, he says : " But speak tliou the tilings which become sound doctrine : that the aged men be sober," and so on. ^ And there, too : " These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with aU
Matt. X. 19, 20. > iMatt. vi. 8. ' 1 Tim. iv. 11.