Sermons Upon Several Occasions: Some of Which Were Never Before Published. to Which Are Added, Some Memoirs of His Life, and the Sermon Preach'd at His Funeral by Daniel Neal
Sermons Upon Several Occasions: Some of Which Were Never Before Published. to Which Are Added, Some Memoirs of His Life, and the Sermon Preach'd at His Funeral by Daniel Neal
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1727 Excerpt: ...warfare; yet this character is much more applicable, and with still greater propriety, belongs to gospel ministers: since they are not only obliged to contend with those enemies, that militate directly against themselves, and hazard their own salvation; but, as overseers of the flock, they are called to watch over the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1727 Excerpt: ...warfare; yet this character is much more applicable, and with still greater propriety, belongs to gospel ministers: since they are not only obliged to contend with those enemies, that militate directly against themselves, and hazard their own salvation; but, as overseers of the flock, they are called to watch over the fouls of others, .' and so are under a double obligation; first, from the law os nature, to be examples to others in saving themselves, and then from the law of their office, to be instruments in saving others. They have all the difficulties of private christians; they are themselves compassed with the infirmities cithers complain of, and subject to the fame passions, by which others are too often overcome: they have their own corruptions to mortify; their own peculiar temptations to resist: they have, in a word, all that to do for themselves, which any other persons have; and besides all this, they watch for the fouls of others, the care of the flock is upon them, they are let for the defence of the gospel, &c So that if christians, above other men, then ministers, above other christians, are engaged in a spiritual warfare: And as the sphere of their motion is larger, their work greater and more difficult, the opposition they meet with more fierce and violent v on their part it calls for greater capacities, a more eminent degree of strength, courage, and resolution, and consequently they need more than ordinary encouragement from God: And hence it is, we still find peculiar promises made to these, of God's gracious presence and assistance here, and assurance given them of a more ample and abundant recompence hereafter, that their encouragements might bear a proportion to their work and service. The schoolmen speak, in their way, of three a...
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