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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.
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 Luke xxii. 25, 26, 27, 28.
The Work and Business of Ministers of the Gospel is as it were that of Servants, to wash and cleanse the Souls of Men: For this is done by the preaching of the Word, which is their main Business, Eph. v. 26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water by the Word.
The Work and Business of Ministers of the Gospel is as it were that of Servants, to wash and cleanse the Souls of Men: For this is done by the preaching of the Word, which is their main Business, Eph. v. 26. That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of Water by the Word.