A47561:69
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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Eighthly, An Elder, or a Pastor of a Church, is under a special Charge to Use Hospitality, and to let himself be a Pattern of Charity, and other good Works, that so he may the better adorn his Profession. This is his Duty, and if he fails herein, he loses some part of those most excellent Virtues in which he ought to ⟨p. 48⟩shine: but if he be Poor, and left […] the thorny cares of this World, and the Church not administering so to him, […] to put him into a Capacity to answer this requirement of the Gospel, whe• will the fault and blame lie? Therefore▪ since he ought to be a pattern of Hospitality and Charity; we argue, 'tis doubtless the indispensable Duty of the People to whom he Ministers, to be conce• ned to the uttermost of their Abilities to make him capable of giving Proof […] this Grace, by the Exercise of it as the• may be Occasion.
Eighthly, An Elder, or a Pastor of a Church, is under a special Charge to Use Hospitality, and to let himself be a Pattern of Charity, and other good Works, that so he may the better adorn his Profession. This is his Duty, and if he fails herein, he loses some part of those most excellent Virtues in which he ought to ⟨p. 48⟩shine: but if he be Poor, and left 〈…〉 the thorny cares of this World, and the Church not administring so to him, 〈…〉 to put him into a Capacity to answe• this requirement of the Gospel, whe• will the fault and blame lie? Therefore▪ since he ought to be a patern of Hospitality and Charity; we argue, 'tis doubtless the indispensible Duty of the People to whom he Ministers, to be conce• ned to the uttermost of their Abilities to make him capable of giving Proof 〈…〉 this Grace, by the Exercise of it as the• may be Occasion.