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Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preached at Portsmouth, at the…Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preach'd at Portsmouth, at the…
Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preached at Portsmouth, at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Job Strong, to the pastoral office over the South Church in that place, June 28. 1749, / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton.Christ the great example of Gospel ministers. A sermon preach'd at Portsmouth, at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Job Strong, to the pastoral office over the South Church in that place, June 28. 1749, / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton.
Boston: printed by T. Fleet, 1750
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.
Christ in the Words of the Text, don't only intend to recommend this Example of his to the Disciples as Christians, or some of his professing People, but especially as his Ministers This is evident by those Words he uses ⟨p. 8⟩to enforce this Counsel, Neither he that is sent, is greater than he that sent him. In which Words he manifestly has respect to that great Errand on which he had sent them, when he bid them go and preach the Gospel to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel. Mat. x. 5, 6. and on which they were to be sent after his Resurrection, when he said to them, Go ye into all the World, and preach the Gospel to every Creature. The same Errand that Christ has respect to John xx. 21. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
And what confirms this is, that Christ elsewhere recommends to Officers in his Church, that are in that respect chief among his Followers, the Example which he set in his abasing himself to be as a Servant that ministers to Guests at a Table, in his giving his Life for us; Matt. xx. 27, 28. Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your Servant; Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his Life a Ransom for many. Compare Luke xxii. 25, 26, 27, 28.
And what confirms this is, that Christ elsewhere recommends to Officers in his Church, that are in that respect chief among his Followers, the Example which he set in his abasing himself to be as a Servant that ministers to Guests at a Table, in his giving his Life for us; Matt. xx. 27, 28. Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your Servant; Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his Life a Ransom for many. Compare