N05154:64
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 as it is your Duty and Interest well to support your […], so it concerns you to pray earnestly for him, an• ••ch one to do what in him lies in all Respects to encourage and help him, and strengthen his Hands, by attending diligently to his Ministry, receiving the Truth in Love, treating him with the Honour due to a Messenger of Christ, carefully avoiding all Contention with him, and one with another. And take heed in particular, that you don't forsake him to follow those, who under Pretence of extraordinary Purity, are doubtless doing the Devil's Work, in separating themselves, and endeavouring to draw off others from the Ministers and Churches in the Land in general.
And as it is your Duty and Interest well to support your 〈…〉, so it concerns you to pray earnestly for him, an• ••ch one to do what in him lies in all Respects to encourage and help him, and strengthen his Hands, by attending diligently to his Ministry, receiving the Truth in Love, treating him with the Honour due to a Messenger of Christ, carefully avoiding all Contention with him, and one with another. And take heed in particular, that you don't forsake him to follow those, who under Pretence of extraordinary Purity, are doubtless doing the Devil's Work, in separating themselves, and endeavouring to draw off others from the Ministers and Churches in the Land in general.
If you think I have spoken something freely to you, I hope it will be considered, that this is probably the last Time you will ever hear me speak from the Pulpit, and that I shall never see you again 'till we see one another in the invisible eternal World, where these Things will open to us all in their just Importance.