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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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2. FAITHFUL Ministers of the Gospel are great Blessings to the World. Although' they have merited nothing from God, they merit the Prayers of His People. As the Apostle speaks in another respect, 1 Cor. 9. 11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things. So if the Ministers of the Gospel are Blessings to their People, is it a great thing for them to Pray for them. Certainly they owe them that and more. The Prophets were wonderful Blessings to the Lord's People. By a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet he was preserved, Hos. 12. 13. There were ordinary (as well extraordinary) Prophets who were great Blessings to the Lord's Ancient People. Such as were Educated in Schools and Colleges, that so they might be qualified to be Teachers and Instructors of others. These were called, the ⟨p. 13⟩Sons of the Prophets. There was a College at Najoth, where Samuel was the President. Elijah had Young Scholars under his Tuition. So had Elisha after him, of whom it was said, that the Sons of the Prophets bowed themselves to the ground before him, 2 Kin. 2. 15. It is mentioned as a singular favour of the Lord, I have raised up of your Sons for Prophets, and of your Young Men for Nazarites; Such as were separated and set apart for God, Amos 2. 11. Faithful Ministers are Blessings by their Prayers: that's a special part of the Work which they are to give attendance unto. Act. 6. 4. We will give our selves continually to Prayer and to the Ministry of the Word. He that would prove himself to be a Minister of God, must discover it by his Prayerfulness. Jer. 27. 18. If they be Prophets, and if the word of the Lord be with them, let them make intercession to the Lord of hosts. By their fervent Prayers, holy Ministers of God, avert Judgments from their People.