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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.
2. CHRIST will be so present with them, that all the Elect shall be brought in. There be a Number whose Names are written in the Lambs book of Life: there be a Number that God hath given to Christ, and God will bless the labours of Ministers unto their Conversion, & their Perseverance in Holiness. Some Preach Christ out of love, and some for carnal ends. So it was of Old. Phil. 1 15. Some indeed Preach Christ even of envy and strife, and some of good will But Christ doth so far bless the Preaching and Writing of the Ministry, that all the Elect shall be brought in. In some Ages many are Converted, and in all Ages such as do belong unto the Election of Grace Joh 6.37. All that the Father hath given me shall come unto me. Rom. 11.7. The Election hath obtained. Rom. 8.30. Whom ⟨p. 12⟩he did Predestinate, them he also Called, and whom be Called, them be also Justified. Whether the Means be greater or less, there shall be such a Presence of Christ with them, that all whom God has chosen shall be Converted. If any of them live under corrupt and vicious Ministers, yet they shall not miscarry; the light that they enjoy shall prevail for their Conversion and Salvation. Psal. 132.16. I will clothe her Priests with Salvation. Christ will not loose any of those that the Father hath given him.
2. CHRIST will be so present with them, that all the Elect shall be brought in. There be a Number whose Names are written in the Lambs book of Life: there be a Number that God hath given to Christ, and God will bless the labours of Ministers unto their Conversion, & their Perseverance in Holiness. Some Preach Christ out of love, and some for carnal ends. So it was of Old. Phil. 1 15. Some indeed Preach Christ even of envy and strife, and some of good will But Christ doth so far bless the Preaching and Writing of the Ministry, that all the Elect shall be brought in. In some Ages many are Converted, and in all Ages such as do belong unto the Election of Grace Joh 6.37. All that the Father hath given me shall come unto me.