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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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But an incredible wrath from the Jealous & Wronged Lord Jesus Christ, breaks forth against the People, that are guilty of so great an Oppression I tell you truly, Except it be the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, Crying against a People, I know not, whether any Cry more terrible can go up to Heaven, than the Crying wants & Straits of His Holy Ministers I have been told, That if the Tavern-keepers in many Towns, would bring in true Accounts, of what Money they have received in the Needless visits of their Neighbours to the Taverns, the Sum would vastly exceed all that is in th•se Towns laid out upon the House of God. This is a Thing that Cries to Heaven, for the Removal of a Despised Gospel; Believe it, Sirs, Believe it.
But an incredible wrath from the Jealous & Wronged Lord Jesus Christ, breaks forth against the People, that are guil•y of so great an Oppression I tell you truly, Except it be the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, Crying against a People, I know not, whether any Cry more terrible can go up to Heaven, than the Crying wants & Straits of His Holy M•nisters I have been told, That if the Tavern-keepers in many Towns, would bring in tru• Accounts, of what Money they have received in the Needless visi•s of their Neighbours to the Taverns, the Sum would vastly exceed all that is in th•se Towns laid out upon the House of God. This is a Thing that Cryes to Heaven, for the Removal of a Despised Gospel; Believe it, Sirs, Believe it.
Tis a wonderful Damage, that you do your selves, if it were no more than This; That by taking off your Ministers from their Studies, you S•u•• their Abilities, & Cramp their Accomplishments, & […] the vast Good that would thereby accrue unto your selves. It seems, you would have your Ministers to be th• Stars, rather than the Lamps of the Churches, & like Stars, to Shine, without the supply of any Earthly Contributions: But they are Lamps; and how should they do any other than Burn Dim, if you don't supply them? Antigon