And the Observation must be that "GOD is for _new_ things. GOD is for _a_ new _creature. St. John_ xix, 41, _Now in the place when he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There they laid JESUS_. And again _St. Mark_ xvi. 17. CHRIST tells his disciples that they that are true believers, shall cast out devils, and speak _with_ new _tongues_. And likewise, the prophet teaches us, _Isaiah_ xlii. 10, _Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise to the end of the earth_. "Whence it is plain that CHRIST is not for _old_ things. He is not for an _old sepulchre_. He is not for _old tongues_. He is not for an _old song_. He is not for an _old creature_. CHRIST is for a _new creature! Circumcision and Uncircumcision availeth nothing, but a new creature_. And what do we read concerning SAMSON? _Judges_ xv, 15. Is it not that he slew a thousand of the Philistines with one _new_ jawbone? An _old_ one might have killed its tens, its twenties, its hundreds! but it must be a _new_ jawbone that is able to kill a thousand! GOD is for the _new creature_! "But may not some say, 'Is GOD altogether for new things?' How comes it about then, that the prophet says, _Isaiah_ i. 13, 14, _Bring no more vain oblations! &c. Your new Moons, and your appointed Feasts, my soul hateth!_ And again, what means that, _Deuteronomy_ xxxii. 17, 19, _They sacrificed unto devils, and to new gods, whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up.... And when the LORD saw it, He abhorred them!_ To which I answer, that GOD indeed is not for _new moons_, nor for _new gods_; but, excepting _moons_ and _gods_, He is for the _new creature_." It is possible, Sir, that somebody besides yourself, may be so vain as to read this _Letter_: and they may perhaps tell you, that there be no such silly and useless people as I have described. And if there be, there be not above two or three in a country [_county_]. Or should there be, it is no such complaining matter: seeing that the same happens in other professions, in Law and Physic: in both [of] which, there be many a contemptible creature. Such therefore as these, may be pleased to know that, if there had been need, I could have told them, either the book (and very page almost) of all that has been spoken about Preaching, or else the When and Where, and the Person that preached it. As to the second, viz.: that the Clergy are all mightily furnished with Learning and Prudence; except ten, twenty, or so; I shall not say anything myself, because a very great Scholar of our nation shall speak for me: who tells us that "such Preaching as is usual, is a hindrance of Salvation rather than the means to it." And what he intends by "usual," I shall not here go about to explain.