The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657.…

12. His wise and pious care to communicate part of the charge unto faithful coadjutors, whom he advanced, not barely for their relation unto him, but for their fidelity to the service, Chap. 7. 2, 3. Since it is impossible for great actions to be managed without much concurrence, singular care is to be used that good and faithful men, by whose care, and prudence, and prayers, they may be promoted, be employed in the transaction of them; that even near relations do not prevail with us, to entrust great works in the hands of weak or wicked men. Consanguinity hath a strong bias even with good men. Barnabas did earnestly contend to take Mark along in his and Pauls expedition to visit the Churches, which Paul opposed, Acts 15. 37, 38. The Apostle doth implicitly give us the reason of it in another place, Col. 4. 10. where he¹ telleth us, that Mark was sisters son to Barnabas.

12. His wise and pious care to communicate part of the charge unto faithful coadjutors, whom he advanced, not barely for their relation unto him, but for their fidelity to the service, Chap. 7. 2, 3. Since it is impossible for great actions to be managed without much concurrence, singular care is to be used that good and faithful men, by whose care, and prudence, and prayers, they may be promoted, be employed in the transaction of them; that even near relations do not prevail with us, to entrust great works in the hands of weak or wicked men. Consanguinity hath a strong byass even with good men. Barnabas did earnestly contend to take Mark along in his and Pauls expedition to visit the Churches, which Paul opposed, Acts 15. 37, 38. The Apostle doth implicitely give us the reason of it in another place, Col. 4. 10. where he¹ telleth us, that Mark was sisters son to Barnabas.

1. 1Vid. Baron. An. 45. sect. 42.