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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 9: Quest. By what means may Ministers best win Souls? SERMON IX.
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(2.) Take heed unto thy Doctrine. Though thou be never so well gifted, and approved both of God and Men; though thou be an extraordinary Officer (as Timothy was) yet take heed unto thy Doctrine. These two we pass at present, because we shall resume them at greater length, when we take their help to the resolving of this Question.
(3.) Continue in them. This hath relation, it appears, unto vers. 12. and 15. as well as unto the preceding part of this Verse. I shall dismiss this part of the Verse with these.
1. Continue in thy work. Thou who art a Minister, it is a work for thy Life-time, and not to be taken up and laid down again, according ⟨p. 196⟩as it may best suit a mans carnal inclinations, and outward conveniences. The Apostles that laboured with their hands, have by that Example set the Conscience of a Minister at liber••, to provide for the Necessities of this Life by other Employments, when he cannot live of the Gospel; yet certainly no man that is called of God to this work, can with a safe Conscience abandon it wholly. Paul for Example rather than Necessity, both Preached, and wrought in a Handy-craft: As Preaching doth not make working unlawful, so neither should any other business of a Minister make Preaching to cease.
1. Continue in thy work. Thou who art a Minister, it is a work for thy Life-time, and not to be taken up and laid down again, according ⟨p. 196⟩as it may best suit a mans carnal inclinations, and outward conveniencies. The Apostles that laboured with their hands, have by that Example set the Conscience of a Minister at liber, to provide for the Necessities of this Life by other Employments, when he cannot live of the Gospel; yet certainly no man that is called of God to this work, can with a safe Conscience abandon it wholly. Paul for Example rather than Necessity, both Preached, and wrought in a Handy-craft: As Preaching doth not make working unlawfull, so neither shold any other business of a Minister make Preaching to cease.