CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

First, Gods great and special love to them, That God hath taken care to send such, is more then the creating of a world for you, or vouchsafing all the temporal mercies you enjoy: Hence it's so often spoken of, 2 Chron. ult. and in other places, that God sent his Prophets rising up early. This is spoken as the great love of God to them. And then

Consid. II The second Foundation of the Ministry is Christs Death and Resurrection, his Ascending into Heaven, as Ephes. 4.11. He gave some Apostles, some Pastors and Teachers: Oh then, how ingrateful and wicked is the ⟨p. 428⟩world, which doth no more regard this love of God, and purchase of Christ in the Ministry! Hence by the Prophet God promiseth, That he would give them Pastors after his own heart, Jer. 3.4. Though he feed them with the bread of adversity, and drave them into corners, Isai. 30.20, Hence when God threatens a people with his uttermost wrath, it is to remove the Candlestick, and to make the Vision cease, and to make no Clouds to rain upon them. How much would people complain under a drought, and want of Rain, if for many years together there should not be so much as a Cloud seen; But the gracious heart would think, the removing of Christs Ministers not only the taking away of Clouds, but of the Sun and Stars in Heaven.

Consid. II The second Foundation of the Ministry is Christs Death and Resurrection, his Ascending into Heaven, as Ephes. 4.11. He gave some Apostles, some Pastours and Teachers: Oh then, how ingratefull and wicked is the ⟨p. 428⟩world, which doth no more regard this love of God, and purchase of Christ in the Ministry! Hence by the Prophet God promiseth, That he would give them Pastours after his own heart,