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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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For the minister and people. It is evident that the minister is a father. It is plain: 1. Cor. 4. Where Paul, though you have many teachers yet I have begotten you unto Christ. And Paul calls Timothy and Titus his children, because as their natural parents were instruments of God to beget them to a natural life, so he was Gods instrument to beget him to a spiritual life.
For the minister and people. It is euident that the minister is a father. It is plaine: 1. Cor. 4. Where Paule, though you haue many teachers yet I haue begotten you vnto Christ. And Paule cals Timothie and Titus his children, because as their naturall parents were instruments of God to beget them to a naturall life, so he was Gods instrument to beget him to a spirituall life.
Now the duties of the minister and people are either common or special.
Now the duties of the minister and people are eyther common or speciall.
The common duties which mutually belong to them both, are to pray one for another, and to give thanks one for another. That the minister ought to pray for the people, the continual example and practise of Paul almost in all his Epistles doth declare, as to the Philip. Coloss. Thess. for whom (he writes) that he gives thanks to God, and prays day and night for their increase ⟨image 124⟩in all good graces. By Pauls example, then ministers must learn to pray to God in secret, for the flock committed to their charge, that God would pardon all their sins, and heal their natures, and make his doctrine effectual, to work grace and salvation in their hearts. And then if God have heard his prayer, and blessed his preaching to convert the hearts of his people, & to save their souls, he must not let this slip, but mark and observe and return thanks unto God for it.