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

R. 3 3. The Ministers of the Gospel are to urge this, because of the dignity and excellency of the work, To bring men to the saving knowledge of God is a noble employment, a work for Angels to do; The great Rulers and powers in the world they do but order the body and the outward man, but this work is to enlighten the soul, and to make it fit for the enjoyment of God; This made Paul so often rejoice in and bless God that he had chosen him a vessel to make known the Name of God, We are a sweet savour unto God, saith the Apostle; We are the precious Apothecaries that open the sweet box of the Gospel, Hence it is that the Apostle exhorts people to honour and to have the Ministers of the Gospel in high esteem, and why? for their works sake; 1 The. 5.13. Their teaching and guiding of you in the way to heaven is that great work for which you are to esteem them, if to direct a Traveller that is far out of the way into a ready path, be so acceptable a work, what is it then to inform people who are going securely and joyfully in the broad way to hell, of the danger herein, and to direct to the way of life? If then it be so excellent, mind this in the first place; Oh say, what a wretch am I who know the way to my own house, but not to my long home! I know how to buy and sell, but I know not how to enjoy God.

R. 3 3. The Ministers of the Gospel are to urge this, because of the dignity and excellency of the work, To bring men to the saving knowledge of God is a noble emploiment, a work for Angels to do; The great Rulers and powers in the world they do but order the body and the outward man, but this work is to enlighten the soul, and to make it fit for the enjoyment of God; This made Paul so often rejoyce in and blesse God that he had chosen him a vessel to make known the Name of God, We are a sweet savour unto God, saith the Apostle; We are the precious Apothecaries that open the sweet box of the Gospel, Hence it is that the Apostle exhorts people to honour and to have the Ministers of the Gospel in high esteem, and why? for their works sake; 1 The. 5.13. Their teaching and guiding of you in the way to heaven is that great work for which you are to esteem them, if to direct a Traveller that is farre out of the way into a ready path, be so acceptable a work, what is it then to inform people who are going securely and joyfully in the broad way to hell, of the danger herein, and to direct to the way of life? If then it be so excellent, minde this in the first place; Oh say, what a wretch am I who know the way to my own house, but not to my long home! I know how to buy and sell, but I know not how to enjoy God.