Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…

Reas. 1. Because it is an Office instituted by God, and therefore will be defended, and vindicated by him: he owns them, though the world despise them, and he will take upon him to plead the Cause of his despised Ministers.

Reas. 2. Because it is a high and honourable Office, though despised: let the world look upon it with an eye of disdain, yet it is in it self a dignity, an honour: Ministers are Ambassadors from God to men, 2 Cor. 5. 20. now the Majesty of the Prince is represented in the Ambassador, God looks that part of his own honour is engraven upon this Office, Ministers therefore have no reason to be discouraged by the contumelies of the world.

Reas. 3. Because it is a Work which is accompanied with the glorious power of God, and made a means of the Salvation of Gods Elect: this is Pauls reason why he is not ashamed of the Gospel, Rom. 1. 16. When they see God putting forth his power, and making the stoutest sinners fall (like the walls of Jericho) at the sounding of the Preaching of the Gospel, and many souls by their Ministry brought effectually home to God, this is enough to make them disdain the slanders and revilings of men, and glory in their Ministry.

Reas. 3. Because it is a Work which is accompanied with the glorious power of God, and made a means of the Salvation of Gods Elect: this is Pauls reason why he is not ashamed of the Gospel, Rom. 1. 16. When they see God putting forth his p•wer, and making the stoutest sinners fall (like the walls of Jericho) at the sounding of the Preaching of the Gospel, and many souls by their Ministry brought effectually home to God, this is enough to make them disdain the slanders and revilings of men, and glory in their Ministry.