Let us call upon your Bowels. *Where there is no Vision, the People perish: and can you see them perish, when you have †bread enough, and to spare? Further, Are not you they, that *are set for the defence and confirmation of the Gospel? and will not you stand to your work, against the †contradictions of men, that would *make the work of the Lord to cease? Besides, now is the time for you to †approve your selves to be Ministers of God, in much patience, affliction, necessity, distress, imprisonment, labour, watchings, fastings; by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by Love unfeigned, Word of Truth, Power of God, Armour of Righteousness, on the right hand and on the left. Is not this the Work of your Office and Calling, To watch in all things, 7to suffer afflictions, and thereby to make full proof of your Ministry, ⟨p. 5⟩and, as good Soldiers of Jesus Christ, to endure hardness? Shall you with Jonah, fly to Tarshish, when the Lord sends 8you about your work? will you not rather say, with resolution, as holy Nehemiah, Shall such a man as I flee? Who 9is there, that being as I am, would flee? &c. And as the Apostles, your Leaders, when in your case; And now, 10Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy Servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy Word.
Let us call upon your Bowels. *Where there is no Vision, the People perish: and can you see them perish, when you have †bread enough, and to spare? Further, Are not you they, that *are set for the defence and confirmation of the Gospel? and will not you stand to your work, against the †contradictions of men, that would *make the work of the Lord to cease? Besides, now is the time for you to †approve your selves to be Ministers of God, in much patience, affliction, necessity, distress, imprisonment, labour, watchings, fastings; by long-suffering, by kindness, by the holyGhost, by Love unfeigned, Word of Truth, Power of God, Armour of Righteousness, on the right hand and on the left. Is not this the Work of your Office and Calling, To watch in all things, 7to suffer afflictions, and thereby to make full proof of your Ministry, ⟨p. 5⟩and, as good Souldiers of Jesus Christ, to endure hardness? Shall you with Jona, fly to Tarshish, when the Lord sends 8you about your work? will you not rather say, with resolution, as holy Nehemiah, Shall such a man as I flee? Who 9is there, that being as I am, would flee? &c. And as the Apostles, your Leaders, when in your case; And now, 10Lord, behold their threatnings, and grant unto thy Servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy Word.
- *Pro. 29. 18
- †Luke 15. 17, 18.
- *Phil. 1. 17.
- †Heb. 12. 3.
- *Neh. 4. 11.
- †2 Cor. 6. 4, 5, 6, 7.
- 72 Tim. 4. 5. & 2. 3.
- 8Jona 1. 2, 3.
- 9Neh. 6. 11.
- 10Act. 4. 29.
