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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.
Ministers should follow the Example of Christ in his Diligence and Laboriousness in his Work. He went about doing Good, and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil. Act. x. 38. So abundant was he in Labours, that oftentimes he scarcely allowed himself Time to eat or drink; insomuch that his Friends sometimes went out to lay hold of him, saying, He is beside himself. Mark iii. 20, 21. That three Years and an half of his public Ministry was so filled with Action and Labour, that one of his Disciples ⟨p. 14⟩that constantly attended him, and was an Eye-witness of his Activity, tells us, that if all that he did should be written, the World would not contain the Books.
Ministers should follow the Example of Christ in his Diligence and Laboriousness in his Work. He went about doing Good, and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil. Act. x. 38. So abundant was he in Labours, that oftentimes he scarcely allowed himself Time to eat or drink; insomuch that his Friends sometimes went out to lay hold of him, saying, He is beside himself. Mark iii. 20, 21. That three Years and an half of his publick Ministry was so fill'd with Action and Labour, that one of his Disciples ⟨p. 14⟩that constantly attended him, and was an Eye-witness of his Activity, tells us, that if all that he did should be written, the World would not contain the Books.
Ministers should follow the Example of Christ, in his Readiness not only to Labour, but suffer for the Salvation of Souls, to spend and be spent for them. In this Respect the Apostle Paul imitated his Lord and Master;