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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.
DOCTRINE.
CHRIST JESUS will be present with the Ministers of the Gospel to the End of the World.
CHRIST was eminently with the Apostles, so that in a short time, they set up Churches in many parts of the World, and laid a foundation of the profession of the Christian Religion, both among civil and barbarous Nations; and tho' Ministers in these days must not expect such extraordinary gifts, or such wonderful success as they had; yet they have the word of Christ for it, that He will be with them. They may conclude that Satan will be busy to oppose them: But this is their encouragement that Christ will be present with them. The work of the Ministry is difficult work. Paul saith, Who is sufficient for these things, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 4⟩2.16. But yet there is no reason that they should faint under their burden, for Christ saith He will be with them. The Ministers of the Gospel are Christs Ministers, and their Service is Service for Christ, therefore it is no wonder that He will be present with them. When God sent Moses to the Children of Israel, He tells them that He will be with him, Exod. 3.12. So when Christ sends his Ministers, He tells them that He will be with them; and it is a great Comfort to the People, that Christ will be with their Ministers: and this is not the Privilege of One Generation, or a few Generations, but of all Generations to the end of the World.