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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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It displeased him that God spared Nineveh, and he was very angry, Jonah 4. 1. The time in which the City was threatened with destruction was lapsed, and the City not destroyed. He thought he should have the dishonour of being counted a false Prophet, and rather than so, he was willing that many Hundreds of Thousands of Persons, Men, Women, and Children should perish. What amazing, what unmerciful Passion was here. Luther according to his Name, and the Prediction of the Martyr Huss an hundred Years before, was the Swan of his Age; of whom Calvin in one of his Epistles says, If he calls me a Devil, I will call him ⟨p. 7⟩a Faithful Servant of Christ, yet he was a Man of violent Passions; would reflect furiously, on those whose Sentiments differed from and were more Orthodox than his. The Lord leaves the best Men to discover that they are but Men, that so we might cease from Men, and not idolize any Man, tho' never so Eminent.
It displeased him that God spared Niniveh, and he was very angry, Jonah 4. 1. The time in which the City was threatned with destruction was lapsed, and the City not destroyed. He thought he should have the dishonour of being counted a false Prophet, and rather than so, he was willing that many Hundreds of Thousands of Persons, Men, Women, and Children should perish. What amazing, what unmerciful Passion was here. Luther according to his Name, and the Prediction of the Martyr Huss an hundred Years before, was the Swan of his Age; of whom Calvin in one of his Epistles says, If he calls me a Devil, I will call him ⟨p. 7⟩a Faithful Servant of Christ, yet he was a Man of violent Passions; would reflect furiously, on those whose Sentiments differed from and were more Orthodox than his. The Lord leaves the best Men to discover that they are but Men, that so we might cease from Men, and not idolize any Man, tho' never so Eminent.