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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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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!
MY Brethren; How Hard is our Work, When Legions of Devils are continually falling upon us, with Various and Furious Temptations, to Defeat or to Revenge the Damage which we do unto their Kingdom in the World! Can any Man be set upon a Pinnacle of the Temple, and not be assaulted with Singular Temptations there? Can any Man shine among the Stars of Heaven, that are the Light of the Earth, and ⟨p. 30⟩feel no Strokes and Stings from the Tail of the Dragon there? But at the same time, to be encumbered with a Flesh that Sides with Satan, and is an Enemy to every part of the Work! What Assistances are needful, that such a Work may be carried on as it ought to be!
MY Brethren; How Hard is our Work, When Legions of Devils are continually falling upon us, with Various and Furious Temptations, to Defeat or to Revenge the Damage which we do unto their Kingdom in the World! Can any Man be set upon a Pinacle of the Temple, and not be assaulted with Singular Temptations there? Can any Man shine among the Stars of Heaven, that are the Light of the Earth, and