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A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at…A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at…
A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at Stephens Walbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. Watson.A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at Stephens VValbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. VVatson.
London printed : s.n., 1662
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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.
Secondly, How sad then is it to have such put upon people as have no love to souls? The work of a Minister is a labour of love. O how sad is it to have such in the Ministry who can neither labour nor love? they look more at Tithes then at souls. It must needs be sad with any people in any part of the world who have such Ministers set over them, who do either poison them with error, or destroy them by wicked example. How can the Devil reprove sin? How can that Minister cry out against Drunkenness in his pulpit, who will himself be drunk? Rom. 2. 22. We read that the snuffers of the Tabernacle were to be made of pure gold, Exod. 37. 23. Those that by their calling are to reprove and snuff off the sins of others should be of pure gold, that is holy and spiritual. In the Law God did appoint that the lips of the Leper should be covered, he should not be permitted to speak the o acles of God, who though he be by office an Angel, yet by life a Leper.
Secondly, How sad then is it to have such put upon people as have no love to souls? The work of a Minister is a labour of love. O how sad is it to have such in the Ministry who can neither labour nor love? they look more at Tythes then at souls. It must needs be sad with any people in any part of the world who have such Ministers set over them, who do either poyson them with error, or destroy them by wicked example. How can the Devil reprove sin? How can that Minister cry out against Drunkenness in his pulpit, who will himself be drunk? Rom. 2. 22. We read that the snuffers of the Tabernacle were to be made of pure gold, Exod. 37. 23. Those that by their calling are to reprove and snuff off the sins of others should be of pure gold, that is holy and spiritual. In the Law God did appoint that the lips of the Leper should be covered, he should not be permitted to speak the o acles of God, who though he be by office an Angel, yet by life a Leper.