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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 is indeed a Good Work! The whole Intention, of it is, To do Good; The whole Business of it, is, To make Men Good: All it aims at, is, To fill the World with Goodness. And the Best of Men are not at all too Good for to be used in it. I will not content myself with ⟨p. 29⟩saying Renowned Princes have been Preachers; but I will also say, The SON of GOD Himself, a Greater than Solomon, was once a Minister of the Gospel.
A Good Work! And a Great One. Certainly, The Great Salvation, which it prosecutes, is enough to render it so! The Great Objects, and the Great Effects of it, are enough to render it so! A Minister at Work about the Gospel, and the City of our God, may say to all Avocations: It is a Great Work that I am doing of!
AND a very Hard Work it is, as all Good and Great ones use to be. If the Work of an Architect, be an Hard Work, the Sweltering Husbandman will say, His Work is barder than that; and the Soldier will more fiercely come in, and say, His Work is yet harder than that. But what then is the Work of the Minister, who is to Build the House of God! The Minister, who sets an Hand unto the Plough in the Field of God! The Minister, who must Endure hard things as a Good Soldier of our Lord Jesus Christ! What can a frail Man do in such a Work, without Assistances!
AND a very Hard Work it is, as all Good and Great ones use to be. If the Work of an Architect, be an Hard Work, the Sweltring Husbandman will say, His Work is barder than that; and the Souldier will more fiercely come in, and say, His Work is yet harder than that. But what then is the Work of the Minister, who is to Build the House of God! The Minister, who sets an Hand unto the Plough in the Field of God! The Minister, who must Endure hard things as a Good Souldier of our Lord Jesus Christ! What can a frail Man do in such a Work, without Assistences!