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Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of…
Two discourses showing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. : Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. / By I. Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1716
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Exhor. 2. Let Aged Servants of the Lord suffer the word of Exhortation; To approve themselves as becomes their Age. It is not unbecoming for me to Exhort such who am my self Aged, and so far as I can learn, the Oldest Man in all this Large Congregation. Wherefore as the Apostle speaks to those that were on another account Elders: 1 Pet. 5.1. The Elders which are among you I Exhort, who am also an Elder. So the Ancient Men in the Assembly, I Exhort, who am also my self Ancient. Why may not I, who have been (although' the most Unworthy in the whole World that ever could say so) a Public Preacher of the Gospel Nine & Fifty Years, (for this Month & this Week Nine & Fifty Years are past since I began to speak ⟨p. 120⟩in the Name of the Lord,) why should not I esteem it my duty to speak a few words to my Aged Friends? There are a considerable number of Aged Persons (tho' short of my Age) here before the Lord. For there are many who have attained to Threescore, & such are every where accounted Old Men. It has a long time been a Proverbial saying, Sexagenarius de ponte, a Man that is Sixty is to be dismissed from those Employments which are proper for Youth and Strength. Let me then confirm the Exhortation, with some Directions, and none but what I would my self (Christ helping me) be willing to join with you in the practise of.
Exhor. 2. Let Aged Servants of the Lord suffer the word of Exhortation; To approve themselves as becomes their Age. It is not unbecoming for me to Exhort such who am my self Aged, and so far as I can learn, the Oldest Man in all this Large Congregation. Wherefore as the Apostle speaks to those that were on another account Elders: 1 Pet. 5.1. The Elders which are among you I Exhort, who am also an Elder. So the Ancient Men in the Assembly, I Exhort, who am also my self Ancient. Why may not I, who have been (altho' the most Unworthy in the whole World that ever could say so) a Publick Preacher of the Gospel Nine & Fifty Years, (for this Month & this Week Nine & Fifty Years are past since I began to speak ⟨p. 120⟩in the Name of the Lord,) why should not I esteem it my duty to speak a few words to my Aged Friends? There are a considerable number of Aged Persons (tho' short of my Age) here before the Lord. For there are many who have attained to Threescore, & such are every where accounted Old Men. It has a long time been a Proverbial saying, Sexagenarius de ponte, a Man that is Sixty is to be dismissed from those Employments which are proper for Youth and Strength. Let me then confirm the Exhortation, with some Directions, and none but what I would my self (Christ helping me) be willing to joyn with you in the practise of.