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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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These things if found, may serve to satisfy a Ministers Conscience, that Jesus Christ hath sent him.
These things if found, may serve to satisfie a Ministers Conscience, that Jesus Christ hath sent him.
1. If the Heart be filled with a single desire after the great end of the Ministry, the Glory of God in the Salvation of men. Every work that God calls a man to, he makes the End of it amiable. This desire sometimes attends mens first Conversion; Paul was called to be a Saint and an Apostle at once, Acts 9. and so have many been called to be Saints and Ministers together. If it be not so, yet this is found with him that Christ calls, that when he is most spiritual and serious, when his Heart is most under the impressions of Holiness, and he is nearest to God in Communion with him: Then are such desires after the serving of Jesus Christ in the Ministry, most powerful. And the Sincerity of his desire is also to be examined, and when it's found, it adds greatly to a Mans peace: When his Heart bears him witness, that it is neither Riches, nor Honour, nor Ease, nor the Applause of men, that he seeks after, but singly Christs Honour in the saving of men.
1. If the Heart be filled with a single desire after the great end of the Ministry, the Glory of God in the Salvation of men. Every work that God calls a man to, he makes the End of it amiable. This desire sometimes attends mens first Conversion; Paul was called to be a Saint and an Apostle at once, Acts 9. and so have many been called to be Saints and Ministers together. If it be not so, yet this is found with him that Christ calls, that when he is most spiritual and serious, when his Heart is most under the impressions of Holiness, and he is nearest to God in Communion with him: Then are such desires after the serving of Jesus Christ in the Ministry, most powerful. And the Sincerity of his desire is also to be examined, and when it's found, it addes greatly to a Mans peace: When his Heart bears him witness, that it is neither Riches, nor Honour, nor Ease, nor the Applause of men, that he seeks after, but singly Christs Honour in the saving of men.