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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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THE PREFACE
IT is Asserted in the Sermon Emitted herewith, that the Lives of Ministers depend much (under God) on the Prayers of the Lord's People for them. I am a living Example on whom that has been verified. When I Ordained a Son who has been since that Labouring with me in the same Vineyard, for above Thirty-Three Years, I little thought of living to Ordain a Grandson. It is high time for me to be willing to leave a sinful World. I bless the Lord I am ⟨p. ii⟩willing, having seen an end of all Perfection, and willing humbly to wait the Lord's time. The only thing that makes this World desirable, is, an opportunity to do Service for Christ. But when Abilities for Serviceableness is Expired, (as they are with me Expiring) why should we desire to live longer! I confess I did so when I was Young. But the case is altered with me. Now my Prayer is, that my Children, and Children's Children may do greater Service (if they do not they will do very little) for Christ and for his People than I have done. Amen!
IT is Asserted in the Sermon Emitted herewith, that the Lives of Ministers depend much (under God) on the Prayers of the Lord's People for them. I am a living Example on whom that has been verified. When I Ordained a Son who has been since that Labouring with me in the same Vineyard, for above Thirty-Three Years, I little thought of living to Ordain a Grandson. It is high time for me to be willing to leave a sinful World. I bless the Lord I am ⟨p. ii⟩willing, having seen an end of all Perfection, and willing humbly to wait the Lord's time. The only thing that makes this World desirable, is, an opportuniy to do Service for Christ. But when Abilities for Serviceableness is Expired, (as they are with me Expiring) why should we desire to live longer! I confess I did so when I was Young. But the case is altered with me. Now my Prayer is, that my Children, and Childrens Children may do greater Service (if they do not they will do very little) for Christ and for his People than I have done. Amen!