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A monitory letter about the maintenance [sic] of an able and faithful ministry. Directed…A monitory letter about the maintainance [sic] of an able and faithful ministry. Directed…
A monitory letter about the maintenance [sic] of an able and faithful ministry. Directed unto those people, who sin against, & sin away the Gospel, by not supporting the worthy preachers of the Gospel. : A decree of a national synod of reformed churches at Paris. ...A monitory letter about the maintainance [sic] of an able and faithful ministry. Directed unto those people, who sin against, & sin away the Gospel, by not supporting the worthy preachers of the Gospel. : A decree of a national synod of reformed churches at Paris. ...
Boston, in N.E. : s.n., Printed in the year. 1700
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A Monitory LETTER, about the Maintenance of an Able and Faithful MINISTRY.
A Monitory LETTER, about the Maintainance of an Able and Faithful MINISTRY.
Brethren,
IF ever you arrive to Blessedness, i• must be by Faith, in the Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, who is Revealed and Offered unto you, in the Glorious Gospel of God: And if ever you Enjoy the Offers of the Gospel, it must be by the Preachers o• it: Even by the Ministry of men set apart, for the Work of Explaining and Applying, the Great Mystery of Godliness among you.
A Ministry cannot be upheld without a Maintenance. Now, whil• s•me of your Ministers, choose to leave their Salaries unto the voluntary Contributions of the People, these are others, who (sensible of what the Great V•ettus writes, Hominum saepe tanta est Injustiia, allacia, Lubricita, ac profanitas, ut Expediat Contractum intercedere,) do make their Contracts wih their people, for their Stipends. But it is well known That tho' the Maintenance promised unto the Ministers among us, be ordinarily very small, scarce a Competency: and our Ministers are mostly of Calvins mind in this point, (as in all other they are Calvinists,) Consil […]