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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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Yea, I have been told, That when some of our Ministers, have been visited by the Hand of God with Sickness, and mourning for two or three months together, with the Sighs of Heman, I am shut up, and I cannot come forth! the people have gone to Subtract so much of their yearly Maintenance, as their Sickly months would have come to. Alas, my Friends, common •• genuity would cry, Shame, upon such doings: And Christianity would have bespoke rather an Addition •o, than a Subtraction from the Maintenance ⟨p. 13⟩of your Ministers, who are in your Service, and only by the Calamity of Sickness interrupted in the Service
Yea, I have been told, That when some of our Ministers, have been visited by the Hand of God with Sickness, and mourning for two or three months together, with the Sighs of Heman, I am shut up, and I cannot come forth! the people have gone to Substract so much of their yearly Maintainance, as their Sickly months would have come to. Alas, my Friends, common •• genuity would cry, Shame, upon such doings: And Christianity would have bespoke rather an Addition •o, than a Substraction from the Maintainance ⟨p. 13⟩of your Ministers, who are in your Service, and only by the Calamity of Sickness interrupted in the Service
But, Sirs; what can you imagine to get, by thus withholding more than is meet? Oh, That you would Believe that word of God, Prov. 11.24, 25. There is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to Poverty; whereas, The liberal Soul shall be made Fat If the Spirit of Judas, cause you, to begrudge, all that is laid out upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and His Ministers, it is time for you, to consider, what Spirit ye are of. And if the Impiety of Pinching and Starving your Ministers, be aggravated, by your breaking your Covenants with them, [for oftentimes, men are so much worse than the Pharisees, that they neither pay Tithes nor keep Faith!] I entreat you, to ponder seriously on that awful Word,