A30238:1680
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 80
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3. The duty of prayer is reciprocal; Ministers are to pray for their People, 1and People for their Ministers. This Paul who so often desireth the Churches prayers, doth as often demonstrate his continual and fervent prayers for them; yea, though a people be never so unworthy, so wretched and malicious, yet they will say with Samuel, God forbid I should cease to pray for you; so that thy prayers for those who labour in the work of the Lord, are not in vain. They are recompensed with prayers again, and never are people a blessing and comfort to a Minister, nor is a Minister a blessing to them, till there be this mutual praying; for if the prayer of one man doth prevail much, how much then will the prayers of many righteous persons for each other? So that we see why the Devil and his instruments are so busy in sowing of discords and contentions between Pastor and People; why instead of praying for one another, there are slanderings, detractions, and malicious oppositions of one another: for by this discord the Devils Kingdom is promoted, and their prayers for one another are hindered.
3. The duty of prayer is reciprocall; Ministers are to pray for their People, 1and People for their Ministers. This Paul who so often desireth the Churches prayers, doth as often demonstrate his continuall and fervent prayers for them; yea, though a people be never so unworthy, so wretched and malicious, yet they will say with Samuell, God forbid I should cease to pray for you; so that thy prayers for those who labour in the work of the Lord, are not in vain. They are recompenced with prayers again, and never are people a blessing and comfort to a Minister, nor is a Minister a blessing to them, till there be this mutuall praying; for if the prayer of one man doth prevaile much, how much then will the prayers of many righteous persons for each other? So that we see why the Devill and his instruments are so busie in sowing of discords and contentions between Pastor and People; why instead of praying for one another, there are slanderings, detractitions, and malicious oppositions of one another: for by this discord the Devils Kingdome is promoted, and their prayers for one another are hindred.
- 13. Ministers are to pray for their people, and people for their Ministers.