N00769:6
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To J. F. Esq.
SIR,
A Famous Ruler in Israel gives us that Report of his own Conduct, Neh. 13 10.11. I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; Then I contende• •or them, and said, why is the House of God forsaken? God has ma•e you a Ruler even one of the Counsellors & Justices, in our little Israel; and tho', I know, nothing is more distasteful to you than a Worldly, Slothful, Ambitious Clergy, & you are as far as any man I know, from the Character of, Priest ridden; yet you count no sort of men, more Highly to be Esteemed, than Holy, Prayerful, Watchful, Painful, Humble, & Learned Ministers of the Gospel Because when you were informed, that in many Towns, those Men of God, have not their Portions duly given them, you hoped, that among other ways of helping it, some Good might be done, by a Monitory Letter to the Negligent; you desired one, who has the least occasion for your Cares about him, •o compose it, and are your se•f at the charge to Publish it, & Scatter it. The Worthy Ministers, whom you thus desire to see well Supported, have their Graces tried by their Temptations, & Live by Faith, E•ing the Providence of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Provision that He strangely mak for them What if You should now be an Instrument of some Advantage to them, & because to them, to their Fks also? You will at least meet with this Recompence; while you Speak comfortably unto them, who teach the Good Knowledge of the Lord, they will in their Scr Prayers before the Lord, Remember You & your Family; And whom they Bless, their God will Bless!