PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 10
Thomas Manton · 317,241 words · 313 reading sections
Section 301
VeR. 18.] SERMONS UPON JOHN XVII. ' 471 power to send others, as Christ had. The world was bound to acknow- ledge them for such. To despise Christ was to despise Grod, whose deputy he was ; and to despise them was to despise Christ ; to hear them was to hear Christ, and to hear Christ was to hear God : Mat. X. 40, ' H…
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2. The ordinary call then is that which we should chiefly regard, and that is twofold — either inward or outward. [1.] The inward calling, that is to be regarded in the first place. Be sure you be ministers of Christ's making. There can be no true calling unless you see God in it as well as men. And the Lord taketh V…
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(1.) Election is the people's right. This appeareth because their consent and suffrage is required in all offices, even in the choice of an apostle. Acts i. 15, 26, the one hundred and twenty nominate Matthias in the room of Judas, and God decided it by lot ; and in the choice of a deacon : Acts vi. 3, ' Look ye out am…
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Having spoken to the call, I come to show the necessity of a call. Now such a call, or authoritative mission is necessary — 1. In respect of God. God enableth those whom he employeth : 1 Tim. i. 12, 'I thank Jesus Christ my Lord, who hath enabled me; for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.' And …
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2. That the ministry is a standing office. When Christ was about to depart, then he sendeth apostles Avith a promise that he would be with them to the end of the world. He sendeth them that they may send others, and so continue the succession. So that the apostles are not only sent by Christ, but the ministers of the g…
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Use 3. Advice to ministers and people. 1. To ministers. Strive to make out your calling to your people, to evidence it to the consciences of your auditory, by your sincerity and success. [1.] By your sincerity : 2 Cor. iv. 2, ' We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling…
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Before I come to speak to the dignity of ministers, I shall answer an objection or two against what hath been said. Object 1. If none but such as have an outward call are to preach, what call had the first reformers ? I answer — 1 . The first leformers, most of them had a lawful call, being pastors and teachers befor…
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yourselves, and to all the fioclr over which the Holy Ghost hath made jou overseers.' So Acts xiii. 2, ' As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Paul and Barnabas for the work whereimto I have called them.' In short, then, we are sent by the decree and will of the Father, qualified …
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tlse 1, It informeth us of four things : — 1. The excellency and dignity of the ministry. They are Christ's ambassadors ; they are sent, not as a post or letter-carrier, but as honourable messengers. An ambassador usually is one of the nobi- lity, sent by a prince, or the supreme power of a nation ; not to private men…
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486 SERMONS uroN JOHN XVII. [Ser. XXXll. then, let the dignity of your office be in your eye, that you may not be a disgrace to him that sent you, but may walk with all religious cir- cumspection, gravity, and prudence. [2.] In their ministry and calling there is also required faithfulness, gravity, and sincerity. (…
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4. It informeth us of the madness of the world, that use Christ's ambassadors ill, when they come about such a message. It is against JUS gentium, the law of nations, to offer violence to ambassadors ; let their message be never so displeasing, their persons are secured by the civility of all nations. Yet Christ's amba…
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to go on, if maintenance go away, nobles must put their neclvs to the yoke, to serve Christ in this employment, as some have done in other churches. [3.] Kespect their persons. Something is due to them for the work's sake: 1 Thes. v. 12, 13, 'And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are o…
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3. God will not always suffer it. Prophet-hating is a deadly sin. It is said of Herod, Luke iii. 20, ' He added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.' So 2 Chron. xvi. 10, ' Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and jmt him in a prison-house ; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.' Were these s…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.