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The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applied in…The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applyed in…
The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applied in a sermon preached at Swampfield, January 1st. 1717[/]18. Being the day of the gathering of the church, and the ordination of the Reverend Joseph Willard their pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. & Pastor of Northampton.The presence of Christ with the ministers of the Gospel, opened & applyed in a sermon preached at Swampfield, January 1st. 1717[/]18. Being the day of the gathering of the church, and the ordination of the Reverend Joseph Willard their pastor. / By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. & Pastor of Northampton.
printed by B. Green, 1718
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Presence of CHRIST WITH THE Ministers of the GOSPEL. › DOCTRINE.
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.
Answ. 1. CHRIST will be so present with the Gospel-Ministry, that His visible Kingdom shall be upheld. If some of them be notoriously defective of their duty; yet by those that are in the Ministry, His work shall be carried on, and His Kingdom shall be preserved throughout all Generations. The Gospel shall be Preached and there shall be those that shall make a Profession of the Truth. The Kingdom of Christ is sometimes in a more flourishing condition, and sometimes it withers: but it shall never be […]. […] of these Kings, shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom, that shall never be destroyed. Mar. 16.18. Upon this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. God has made a donation of an Eternal Kingdom to Christ. Psal. 72.17. His Name shall endure for ever, it shall continue as long as the Sun. How many secure, carnal and corrupt men are in the Ministry, that contribute very little to the upholding of His Kingdom? ⟨p. 11⟩yet there shall be such a Presence of Christ with some that are in the Ministry, that neither Persecution nor Heresy shall prevail to root out the Kingdom of Christ. God will so far prosper the labours of the Ministry, that the Church shall be Immortal: There shall be a Succession of those that shall make a Profession of the Gospel: There shall always be Witnesses for Christ, tho' for a long while they Prophecy in Sackcloth. Christ shall divide the spoil with the Mighty.
Answ. 1. CHRIST will be so present with the Gospel-Ministry, that His visible Kingdom shall be upheld. If some of them be notoriously defective of their duty; yet by those that are in the Ministry, His work shall be carryed on, and His Kingdom shall be preserved throughout all Generations. The Gospel shall be Preached and there shall be those that shall make a Profession of the Truth. The Kingdom of Christ is sometimes in a more fiourishing condition, and sometimes it withers: but it shall never be 〈…〉. 〈…〉 of these Kings, shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom, that shall never be destroyed. Mar. 16.18. Upon this Rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. God has made a donation of an Eternal Kingdom to Christ.