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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 3: USE III.
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USE III.
I Conclude with a Word of Exhortation. Pray for the Lord's Ministers. There are a considerable Number, above Twenty Pastors of Churches in this Assembly, they all say as the Apostle here does, Pray for us. Let every Godly Man or Woman that belongs to this or that particular Church, when you are alone with God for your own Souls, remember your Pastors before the Lord. Who can say how great Blessings you may obtain for them? Are there not Ministers of the Gospel here before the Lord, who have been Sick nigh unto Death, but the Prayers of their People have kept them Alive unto this Day. I am sure there is one such. I that am speaking to you am such an one. Let me declare it freely that the Prayer hearing God alone may have the Glory of His Mercy. In my Younger Years I was Three times brought to the Gates of the Grave, by dangerous Fevers which proved mortal to some. But the loving People among whom I have been Preaching the Gospel above Seven and Fifty Years, set Days apart to beg my Life at the Hands of God. The last time that I was visited with an acute disease, which is now above Four and Thirty Years since, the Church desired Blessed Mr. Eliot, to assist them in Prayer to God. I shall never forget the words of Faith which he then expressed to me when the Public Exercises of the Day were finished, he came to me in my ⟨p. 24⟩Sick Chamber with these words, Blessed be God you are ours still, you shall not dye by this Sickness. He was persuaded God had some further Service for me to do for Christ and for His Churches in New-England, before He would take me out of this World. And now behold I that was looked upon as a dying Man above Thirty, nay Nine and Forty Years ago, having obtained help from God through the Prayers of His People, continue to this Day, and have lived so long as that I cannot, I do not desire any Friend I have in the World, to Pray that I may live one day longer. I have great reason to say with Old Simeon, Now Lord lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace. Only Pray that while it shall be the pleasure of the Almighty to detain me here, I may continue serviceable to Christ and to the Souls of Men.