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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.
The chief Trials of Christ's Virtue, and so their most bright and eminent Exercises were in the Abasement, Labour and Suffering, that he was the Subject of for our Salvation. Which certainly may well endear those Virtues to us, and greatly engage us to imitate that Example: So the Things whereof this Example consists, were Things by which we have infinite Benefit, without which we should have been unspeakably miserable for ever and ever, and by virtue of which we have the glorious Privilege of the Children of God, and have a full Title to the Crown of exceeding Glory, and Pleasures for ever more, at God's right Hand.
The chief Trials of Christ's Virtue, and so their most bright and eminent Exercises were in the Abasement, Labour and Suffering, that he was the Subject of for our Salvation. Which certainly may well endear those Virtues to us, and greatly engage us to imitate that Example: So the Things whereof this Example consists, were Things by which we have infinite Benefit, without which we should have been unspeakably miserable for ever and ever, and by virtue of which we have the glorious Priviledge of the Children of God, and have a full Title to the Crown of exceeding Glory, and Pleasures for ever more, at God's right Hand.
III. I now proceed, as was proposed, in the third Place, to apply what has been said to my self, and others that are employed in this sacred Work of the Gospel Ministry, and to such as are about to undertake it, or are Candidates for it; and particularly to him that is now to be solemnly set apart to this Work in this Place.
We are those to whom these Things especially belong: We may hear Christ saying to us this Day, I have given you an Example, that ye should do as I have done. For the Words of Christ in the Text were not only spoken to the twelve, but are also spoken unto us. We have now had represented to us, tho' in a very imperfect Manner, the Example that Christ has set, and what Reasons there are that we, above all others, should imitate it.