A31961:135
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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First, see here the right character of a Gospel-Minister: He is full of love, he exhorts, he comforts, he reproves, and all in love; he is never angry with his people, but because they will not be saved? How loth is a Minister of Christ to see precious souls, like so many jewels, cast over-board into the dead Sea of hell? A conscientious Minister would count it an unhappy gain, to gain the world and lose the souls of his people: he saith, as the King of Sodom to Abraham, Give me the persons, and take thou the goods, Gen. 14. 21.
First, see here the right character of a Gospel-Minister: He is full of love, he exhorts, he comforts, he reproves, and all in love; he is never angry with his people, but because they will not be saved? How loth is a Minister of Christ to see precious souls, like so many jewels, cast over-board into the dead Sea of hell? A conscientious Minister would count it an unhappy gain, to gain the world and lose the souls of his people: he saith, as the King of Sodome to Abraham, Give me the persons, and take thou the goods, Gen. 14. 21.
The second branch of Information is this; Are true Gospel-Ministers so full of love? then how sad is it to have such Ministers put upon a people as have no love to souls? The work of the ministry, it is a labour of love: Oh how sad is it to have such in the ministry, that can neither labour nor love? that are such as are without bowels, that look more at tithes then at souls? It must needs be sad with a people in any part of the world to have such ministers set over them, as either poison them with error, or do what in them lies to damn them by their wicked example: How can the Devil reprove sin? how can the Minister cry out in the Pulpit against drunkenness, that will himself be drunk? Rom. 2. 22. Thou that teachest, A man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest, A man ought not to commit adultery, do•st thou commit adultery? We read that the snuffers of the Tabernacle were to be made of pure Gold,