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The gospel minister's maintenance vindicated Wherein, a regular ministry in the churches, is first…
The gospel minister's maintenance vindicated Wherein, a regular ministry in the churches, is first asserted, and the objections against a Gospel maintenance for ministers, answered. Also, the dignity, necessity, difficulty, use and excellency of the ministry of Christ is opened. Likewise, the nature and weightiness of that sacred work and office clearly evinced. Recommended to the baptized congregations, by several elders in and about the City of London.The gospel minister's maintenance vindicated Wherein, a regular ministry in the churches, is first asserted, and the objections against a Gospel maintenance for ministers, answered. Also, the dignity, necessity, difficulty, use and excellency of the ministry of Christ is opened. Likewise, the nature and vveghtiness of that sacred vvork and office clearly evinc'd. Recommended to the baptized congregations, by several elders in and about the City of London.
London : printed, and are to be sold by John Harris at the Harrow, in the Poultry, 1689London : printed, and are to be sold by John Harris at the Harrow, in the Poultrey, 1689
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The Gospel Minister's Maintenance Vindicated.
AND indeed, it seems to us a thing Grievous as well as Strange, that any People should be so be clouded in their Understandings, as in the ⟨p. 14⟩least to doubt, whether it be Duty or no• that the Church should allow a Mee• and Due Maintenance, to their Faithful Pastors and Teachers: Yet, w• hear there are not only some who hav• doubts about it, but others, who see• to Object, and stiffly argue against i• as if it were Unlawful, if not Antichristian, for Ministers to receive […] Yearly, or Quarterly Allowance from the Churches, amongst whom they are placed, and employed as Labourers; which Conceit cannot be without its sad Effects and Consequences▪ and if they are not convinced o• this Mistake and Error the sooner may in a little time appear to the mor• palpable Detriment, and Prejudice o• the Gospel, and Reproach of Profession, which is indeed too Visible or Manifest already; therefore are we stirred up in Love, to Christ and his Blessed Interest, and as a Prevention of th• Evil and Danger threatened, upon th• Account of this Defect and Remissness of Duty, to Write this short Treatise.
AND indeed, it seems to us a thing Grievous as well as Strange, that any People should be so be clouded in their Understandings, as in the least⟨p. 14⟩