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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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Ministers of the Gospel ought to desire the Prayers of the Lord's P… › Application 1: USE I.
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USE I.
IF Ministers of the Gospel ought to desire the Prayers of the Lord's People, Then they ought to approve themselves so as that His People may be encouraged to Pray for them. Thus the Apostle in the Text before us, encourages the Christian Hebrews to Pray for him since he was an honest Man, having a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards Men, notwithstanding the false reports that were raised of him, as if he was an enemy to Moses, because of his having rejected Judaism for Christianity. Both his Conscience and his Conversation did witness for him. Pray for us. For we trust we have a good Conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. If we would have the Prayers of Good Men, we must be Labourers and not Loiterers in the Lord's Vineyard. Godly Men will not Pray for a Loiterer except it be that God would either mend him, or remove him. But for a diligent Labourer they will Pray. Therefore Ministers should keep close to their Studies. They may not wander from House to House, and then come into the Pulpit hand over head, and offer to the Lord and to His People that which cost them nought. They must study to find out profitable which will be acceptable Words. They must study that they may show themselves Workmen that need not to be ashamed. There was use of Oil in the Sanctuary; that Oil was to be beaten. A well ⟨p. 21⟩studied Sermon, is beaten Oil for the Sanctuary. And let a Minister Live Sermons as well as Preach them, and then see if his People will not prize him and Pray for him. It is spoken concerning Ministers of God, They that honour me I will honour. God will honour them by making His People honour them and Pray for them. The Apostle directs Timothy what he should do, that notwithstanding his being a Young Man no body should despise him.