A53689:80
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Zion. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Rules of walking in fellowship, with reference to Pastor. › Rule 5 › Explication 5: EXPLIC. V.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Gods appointment, as in the Text cited.
2. The necessity of it; how shall he go on warfare, if he be troubled about the necessities of this life: They are to give themselves wholly to the Work of the Ministry, 1 Tim. 4. 15.
Other works had need to be done for them.
3 The equity of the duty; our Saviour and the Apostles ⟨p. 21⟩plead it out from grounds of equity and justice, Matth. 10. 10. 1 Cor. 9. 10. Allowing proportionable rectitude in the way of recompense, to the wages of the Labourer, which to detain is a crying sinn, Jam. 5. 4.
3 The equity of the duty; our Saviour and the Apostles