A64998:156
The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved
The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved by Thomas Vincent.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
SECT. XI.
4. THE Fourth thing is to show, Why Ministers must tell people Words whereby they may be saved.
4. THE Fourth thing is to shew, Why Ministers must tell people Words whereby they may be saved.
Reas. 1. Because they have a Commission to do it. Mark 16.15, 16. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the World, and preach the Gospel unto every Creature; He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. They are the words of our Saviour, who being the King and Head of the Church, had power to make Church-officers, and to give Commissions; he commissioneth his Apostles in the first place to preach the Gospel of salvation, and in them all his other succeeding Ministers unto the end of the World, with whom he promiseth to be, so long as the Sun should endure, Math. 28.20. Ministers they are Christs Ambassadors, 2 Cor. 5.20. and they have a Commission from Heaven to declare the glad tidings of salvation, to give notice to the World out of the Word, of the Saviour which God hath provided for fallen, lost sinners, and the way of salvation by him; to make known the Covenant of grace which the Lord hath made with men through his Son, and the exceeding great and precious promises of pardon, and grace, and salvation; all which promises ⟨p. 81⟩are yea and Amen in Christ, who hath purchased with his blood whatever is promised in the Covenant. Ministers have a Commission to preach the Gospel, and they may do it authoritatively, and they ought to do it, it being their duty, and the great work they have to do in the World.