Sermons Preached at Chester
by Charles Benjamin Tayler (9781150482700)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: J. Hatchard: Hamilton, Adams Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON III. THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL. 2 COR. IV. 1, 2, 3. " Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God: but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost." There is no calling under heaven so lowly and yet so glorious as the christian ministry. " I am among you," said the Second Person in the eternal Godhead, to the apostles whom He had chosen to send forth with His gospel to all nations, " I am among you as he that serveth;" and with reference to their services, He said to his disciples, "Whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all." The minister of Him, therefore, who made Himself of no reputation, and lower thaii the lowest, has received his commission to be as a servant to the meanest and the vilest of his beloved flock; and if he really understands his great calling, his people will see that he is ever ready to go and sit down with unaffected humility in the lowest place. Yes, the minister of the Lord God is truly the servant of man; but his calling, though the lowest, is also the highest, the holiest, the most glorious. "The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his...

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