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The duty of Gospel-ministers to preserve a people from corruption. Set forth, in a…
The duty of Gospel-ministers to preserve a people from corruption. Set forth, in a sermon preached at Brookfield, October 16. 1717. Being the day wherein the church was gathered, and Mr. Thomas Cheney, was ordained Pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. and Pastor of Northampton.
Boston: printed for Samuel Phillips, 1718
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Duty of GOSPEL-MINISTERS to preserve a People from Corruption. › Application 1: USE I.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE I.
A Faithful Ministry in a Land is a great Blessing. If God gives a People a good crop, ⟨p. 14⟩if he give peace and health, they count they have received great Blessings: & yet they take but little notice of the mercy of God in giving a faithful Ministry unto them; but God reckons this a great mercy. Jer. 3.15. I will give them Pastors after mine own heart, that shall feed them with knowledge & understanding. Amos 2.11. I raised up of your sons for Prophets. They are great blessings on this account, that they are the Salt of the Land. If Mens Provisions should putrefy for want of Salt it would be a great calamity: but if the People of the Land should grow corrupt for want of a Faithful Ministry, that would be a far greater calamity. When they are Faithful they are a means to prevent corruption. Mal. 2.6. He walked with me in peace & equity, and did turn many away from iniquity: that is great service.
A Faithful Ministry in a Land is a great Blessing. If God gives a People a good crop, ⟨p. 14⟩if he give peace and health, they count they have received great Blessings: & yet they take but little notice of the mercy of God in giving a faithful Ministry unto them; but God reckons this a great mercy. Jer. 3.15. I will give them Pastors after mine own heart, that shall feed them with knowledge & understanding. Amos 2.11. I raised up of your sons for Prophets. They are great blessings on this account, that they are the Salt of the Land. If Mens Provisions should putrify for want of Salt it would be a great calamity: but if the People of the Land should grow corrupt for want of a Faithful Ministry, that would be a far greater calamity. When they are Faithful they are a means to prevent corruption.