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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 has been (and is still) Customary in the Churches of New-England, when a Minister is Ordained, for the Messengers of the Churches in the Neighbourhood, consisting of Elders and Brethren, to Depute One in the Name of the rest to give, The Right Hand of Fellowship to the Person Ordained. The like has been practised by the Protestant Churches in France, & in Bohemia. The Scripture for it is, Gal. 2. 9. At the late Ordination in Roxbury, Doctor Cotton Mather was desired to perform that Office of Love and Communion. He has been entreated to give a Copy of the SPEECH made by him on that Occasion, which is here Annexed to the preceding Sermon.
IT is a Thing abundantly Sensible unto all who have any true and just Sense of so important a Matter, That the Ministry of the Gospel is a work that calls for very great Assistances. The Men who are set apart for the Instruction of other Men, in the Principles and Practices of the Glorious Gospel, have a Work to do, whereof it may be said unto them, This thing is too heavy for thee, and thou art not able to perform it thy self alone.