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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions / by Mr. Samuel Willard ...Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered in several sermons on solemnm occasions / by Mr. Samuel Willard ...
printed by Samuel Green, 1673
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.
Reas. 4. Because its reward is with God: Ministers look not for, nor would be satisfied with an earthly reward; their praise is of God, and ⟨p. 58⟩not of men: he hath promised they shall not lose their reward, and they dare trust him, and can cheerfully endure, and meet with all that reviling and contempt which wicked men delight to be venting against them: the Crown will more then pay for all.
Reas. 4. Because its reward is with God: Ministers look not for, nor would be satisfied with an earthly reward; their praise is of God, and ⟨p. 58⟩not of men: he hath promised they shall not lose their reward, and they dare trust him, and can chearfully endure, and meet with all that reviling and contempt which wicked men delight to be venting against them: the Crown will more then pay for all.
Use. Learn hence to have a care that you contemn not Gods Ministers, and above all the Office of the Ministry: doubtless the low esteem of this great Work appearing by too many evident symptoms, is one thing for which God is now pleading with us, and therefore seasonable at this time to be hinted to us. Oh beware of this sin. Consider,
Ʋse. Learn hence to have a care that you contemn not Gods Ministers, and above all the Office of the Ministry: doubtless the low esteem of this great Work appearing by too many evident symptomes, is one thing for which God is now pleading with us, and therefore seasonable at this time to be hinted to us. Oh beware of this sin. Consider,