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A sermon wherein is showed, I. That the ministers of the Gospel need, and…A sermon wherein is shewed, I. That the ministers of the Gospel need, and…
A sermon wherein is showed, I. That the ministers of the Gospel need, and ought to desire the prayers of the Lord's people for them. II. That the people of God ought to pray for his ministers. : Preached at Roxbury, October 29. 1718. When Mr. Thomas Walter was ordained a pastor in that church, by his grand-father, Increase Mather. D.D. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon wherein is shewed, I. That the ministers of the Gospel need, and ought to desire the prayers of the Lord's people for them. II. That the people of God ought to pray for his ministers. : Preached at Roxbury, October 29. 1718. When Mr. Thomas Walter was ordained a pastor in that church, by his grand-father, Increase Mather. D.D. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for J. Edwards, 1718
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THE Doctrine then before us, is, THAT the Ministers of the Gospel should desire the Lord's People to Pray for them, and the Lord's People ought to Pray for them.
THERE are Two Propositions to be insisted on.
PROP. I. THE Ministers of the Gospel ought to desire the Prayers of the Lord's People. They need the Prayers of the Lord's People. If such an one as Paul needed them, how much more do other Ministers, who have not his Abilities and Accomplishments. He was an Apostle and the Chief among them. There were some among the Corinthians who compelled him to say, In nothing am I behind the very chiefest Apostles, 2 Cor. 12. 11. He was no less a Subject of Divine Inspiration and Revelation than any of them. But moreover had the advantage of ⟨p. 3⟩a Learned Education. He was the Pupil of a very Learned Doctor, brought up at the Feet of Gamaliel. The Jewish Writers say, that Gamaliel was the President of their Sanhedrin. Yet Paul notwithstanding all his Learning and Extraordinary Qualifications, requests the Prayers of the Lords People for him. He does so not only in this his Epistle to the Hebrews, but in all his other Epistles to the Churches. And sometimes he desired the Prayers of particular Godly Persons as well as of whole Churches. He requested Philemon to Pray for him. Yea, and Apphia also, a Godly Praying Woman supposed to be Philemons Wife. The greatest Saint may need and be benefited by the Prayers of the meanest Saint. It has been related concerning that Great, Learned and Holy Man, Dr. Usher, that after he was the Arch-Bishop of Armagh, he would sometimes step into the Houses of Poor Men of Eminent Piety, only to request that they would particularly Pray for him. The Ministers of God need the Prayers of His People. For,