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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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If your Ministers are prudently Thoughtful about their Maintenance, 'tis because they have Read that Word, 1 Tim 5.8 If any provide not […] his own, he is worse than in Infidel. And those men are truly worse than Infidels, who clamour against an Honourable Provision for the Ministry; the worst of Infidels do honourably Maintain those that are set apart, for the supposed Service of their Souls.
If your Ministers are prudently Thoughtful about their Maintainance, 'tis because they have Read that Word, 1 Tim 5.8 If any provide not 〈…〉 his own, he is worse than in Infidel. And those men are truly worse than Infidels, who clamour against an Honourable Provision for the Ministry; the worst of Infidels do honourably Maintain those that are set apart, for the supposed Service of their Souls.
And that which may make the Reproof to those men, who Rob their Ministers of their Dues, the more pungent is This; That there is a Sacrilege in the Robbery. Tis a Robbing of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, in Heaven says, Ye did it unto me.
And that which may make the Repr•of to those men, who Rob their Ministers of their Dues, the more pungent is This; That there is a Sacriledge in the Robbery. Tis a Robbing of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, in Heaven sayes, Ye did it unto me.
Yea, You must allow me, to Advance this Assertion. Every man▪ owes a Portion of his Estate, unto Pious Uses; be owes it unto the Lord: the Great Lord is abused, if that Quitrent be no• rendered unto Him. But what Portion ⟨p. 11⟩