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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.
4. CHRIST will be graciously present with ⟨p. 14⟩them that are faithful. It is a great commendation of a Minister to be a faithful Man. Col. 1.7. Epaphras, is for you a faithful Minister of Christ. Such Men shall have the gracious Presence of God. He will own them in their work, tho' it may be in different degrees. God don't give the same light to one faithful Man that He doth to another. Some godly Men are left to great Mistakes. Godliness is no security against lesser Errors. Neither doth He give the like measure of protection to one as to another. He appears more eminently for the preservation of one, and the vindication of one, than of another. He eminently vindicated Moses, as a reward of his faithfulness. Numb. 12.7. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house. So He doth more eminently succeed the labours of one than of another. Some have more abundant success, while some Men take abundance of pains, and there appears little profit: Others have great occasion to rejoice that they have not run in vain. Paul had great success. Rom. 15.29. I am sure, that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
4. CRHIST will be graciously present with ⟨p. 14⟩them that are faithful. It is a great commendation of a Minister to be a faithful Man. Col. 1.7. Epaphras, is for you a faithful Minister of Christ. Such Men shall have the gracious Presence of God. He will own them in their work, tho' it may be in different degrees. God don't give the same light to one faithful Man that He doth to another. Some godly Men are left to great Mistakes. Godliness is no security against lesser Errors. Neither doth He give the like measure of protection to one as to another. He appears more eminently for the preservation of one, and the vindication of one, than of another. He eminently vindicated Moses, as a reward of his faithfulness.