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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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In the first place, Although' your Ministers rarely, if ever, touch upon it (because they would Preach the Lord Jesus Christ, & not Themselves,) yet I hope, you are not ignorant, That there is the plain, and clear Commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Maintenance of His Evangelical Ministry. I pray, Do your Ministers the Right for once, your selves to Read, without putting Them to Read, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, the Ninth Chapter, from the fourth verse, to the Fourteenth. You shall here find an Inspired Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, with six or seven irrefragable Reasons, in about nine or ten verses, proving This, which he makes his conclusion, The Lord hath ordained, that they which preach the Gospel, should live of the Gospel. It is then incontestably evident, That if you do not your ⟨p. 6⟩part, that your Ministers may Live comfortably, you Sin against the Ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ I am astonished, tha• many a man, who calls himself a Christian, can invent any way to quiet his Conscience before that positive word of the Lord Jesus Christ, Gal. 6.6. Let him that is t••ght in the Word, Communicate unto him that yea••eth in all good things. Now because the Deceitful Hearts or men will plead in their own Excuse, I don't afford these Exp•••es, my Family will want, all that I shall sp••d that way; the Apostle adds, Be not deceived, God is not mocked. q.d. God knows, that you throw away upon your needless vanities, what you might much better have communicated unto your Teachers. When our Lord sent forth His Ministers, he directed them to expect a Subsistence from those to whom He sent them: And that upon this consideration, Mat. 10.10 For the Workman is worthy of his meat: & Luk. 10.7. For the Labourer is worthy of his […]. What horrid impudence is it now, for the Wolves to •ark at the Shepherds, of our▪ Flocks, by the Name of Herlings, merely because they accept a Maintenance from them? Those Pagant, [for none worthy the Name of Christians, would so directly & expressly contradict our Glorious Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory!] They have certainly forgot what the Apostle Paul writes,