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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Let Ministers, if they would win Souls, procure and retain amongst the People, a persuasion of their being sent of God; that they are Christs Ministers, 1 Cor. 4.1. It is not confident asserting of it, nor justifying ⟨p. 203⟩the lawfulness of our Ecclesiastical Calling, though there be some use of these things at some times: But it is ability, painfulness, faithfulness, humility and self-denial, and in a word, conformity to our Lord Jesus in his Ministry, that will constrain People to say and think that we are sent of God. Nicodemus comes with this Impression of Christ, Joh. 3.2. A teacher come from God. It is certain, that these thoughts in people further the reception of the Gospel, Gal. 4.14. Ye received me as an Angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
1. Let Ministers, if they would win Souls, procure and retain amongst the People, a perswasion of their being sent of God; that they are Christs Ministers, 1 Cor. 4.1. It is not confident asserting of it, nor justifying ⟨p. 203⟩the lawfulness of our Ecclesiastical Calling, though there be some use of these things at some times: But it is ability, painfulness, faithfulness, humility and self-denyal, and in a word, conformity to our Lord Jesus in his Ministry, that will constrain People to say and think that we are sent of God. Nicodemus comes with this Impression of Christ, Joh. 3.2. A teacher come from God. It is certain, that these thoughts in people further the reception of the Gospel, Gal. 4.14. Ye received me as an Angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.