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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
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The Duty of GOSPEL-MINISTERS to preserve a People from Corruption. › Application 1: USE I.
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1. FOR if they should be corrupt they would be a great affliction one to another. When a People carry orderly and holily they will be a great comfort one to another: they will make their conversation and society pleasant and profitable, and they will dwell together in unity: Religion teaches Men to love one another; but when they are corrupt they will be as thorns in one another's sides, Mic. 7.4. The best of them is as a brier, the most upright is sharper then a thorn-hedge. They will ⟨p. 15⟩be reproaching and backbiting one another, blasting the names of one another: Children will carry badly to Parents, and Parents to their Children; they will be injurious to one another's Estates, cheating, oppressing, stealing; they will be quarrelling and fighting; they will be debauching one another; they will corrupt Mens Daughters, and Wives too; they will be plagues one to another.
1. FOR if they should be corrupt they would be a great affliction one to another. When a People carry orderly and holily they will be a great comfort one to another: they will make their conversation and society pleasant and profitable, and they will dwell together in unity: Religion teaches Men to love one another; but when they are corrupt they will be as thorns in one anothers sides, Mic. 7.4. The best of them is as a brier, the most upright is sharper then a thorn-hedge. They will ⟨p. 15⟩be reproaching and backbiting one another, blasting the names of one another: Children will carry badly to Parents, and Parents to their Children; they will be injurious to one anothers Estates, cheating, oppressing, stealing; they will be quarrelling and fighting; they will be debauching one another; they will corrupt Mens Daughters, and Wives too; they will be plagues one to another.