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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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NOW, That we may have our Blessed SAVIOUR with us, and so secure and enjoy His Gracious Assistances, most certainly the best Method that can be taken will be, for us to have Him Always in us; For us to have Proper, Holy, Impressive Thoughts of Him on every Turn rolling in our Minds; Our Minds ever dwelling on Him, and so He dwelling in our Hearts: For us to have our Thoughts on all Occasions repairing to Him, and affecting our selves with His Beauties, His Merits, His Patterns, His Maxims, what He has done for us, and what He designs to do: Verily, The whole Christian Ascetics, knows nothing so Enriching to the Soul, or so supplying of a constant Light and Life unto the Soul, as this Exercise of Godliness. And having first got a Soul as full of a CHRIST as ever we can hold, then to have our Ministry as full of Him, as we can possibly render it: NOW, Lo, I am with you; saith our Dear SAVIOUR; Yea, He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. And the House which our Ministry shall make an House of His Glory, NOW! 'twill be an House which He will Glorify.
NOW, That we may have our Blessed SAVIOUR with us, and so secure and enjoy His Gracious Assistences, most certainly the best Method that can be taken will be, for us to have Him Always in us; For us to have Proper, Holy, Impressive Thoughts of Him on every Turn rolling in our Minds; Our Minds ever dwelling on Him, and so He dwelling in our Hearts: For us to have our Thoughts on all Occasions repairing to Him, and affecting our selves with His Beauties, His Merits, His Patterns, His Maxims, what He has done for us, and what He designs to do: Verily, The whole Christian Asceticks, knows nothing so Enriching to the Soul, or so supplying of a constant Light and Life unto the Soul, as this Exercise of Godliness. And having first got a Soul as full of a CHRIST as ever we can hold, then to have our Ministry as full of Him, as we can possibly render it: NOW, Lo, I am with you; saith our Dear SAVIOUR; Yea, He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. And the House which our Ministry shall make an House of His Glory, NOW! 'twill be an House which He will Glorify.
BUT, Sirs, They are our Prayers, as well as our Thoughts, that must carry us unto our SAVIOUR ⟨p. 32⟩