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why
Thrift
prayed
all
szrght
before
:he
preached.
7
do
fine
the beginning of the world
:
To
goe and preach
the
Gofpel,
Chrift
looks
upon this
as
a
great
and
a
weighty worke.
And
therefore
by way
of preparation before
he choofes
them,
lie fpends
a
whole night in prayer
toGod
to
prepare
for
that
great worke.
You
may
fee
by
this, that
the
vç,.yrke
of the
minifiry
it
is
a
great
work
:
You
may
think
it
indeed
a
light Matter, but
Chrift
accounted
it
a
great matter
:
he
makes folemne
prepa-
ration
for
the
choofing his
Apoftles,
and prayes
to
Cod
all
night before,
O
let
thófe
then
who
are
in
the
Miniltry
confi-
der of
this
as a
mighty
and
great work,
as a
folemne
bufinefle
That
that Chrift
ihall
fpend
fo
much
time
in
prayer about,
muff
needs be
a
folemne thing
:
They
should
fo
look
Upon
the
work
that they
are
call'd unto
:
----.
And
for people
that
are
.at
any
time
tó
choofe
or
to
call
a
Minifter,
6
they fhould look
upon
it
as
a
folemn
work,
and
not
think
-it
a
light
matter, fome
when
they heare of
filch a
man,
fay
come
lets
have him
pre-
fently
;
when
Chrift
was
to
choofe
his
Apoltles
and
fend them
forth,
he makes
a
preparation by fitting up
all
night
in
prayer:
And
it's
avery
feemlÿ thing for people
that
are
at
any
time
to
choofe
a
Minifter, that they fhould fpend
much
time in
prayer and feeking
toGod..Indeed
for
the
choyce
of
civil!
Officers, or
of
any
that
iliac!
be
but
by
way
of
afliltance
to the
civil!
Magiftrate
;
There
is
not
need
of
fo
much
folemnity,
but
if
it
be.
for
the
choyce
of
thofe
that
fhall exercife
the
pow
-
er
ofChrift
in
the adminiftringof Ordinances,' They are
to
be
chofen
andbrought
inro
their
place with
a
very great fo-
lempity here it
was fo
at
fìrft: and
fo
I
find
it.continued,that
if
but
a
Deacon
was
brought
in
(Aîts
6.)
it
was
with pra
y,er
and
impofition
of
hands
;
And fo
Elders
much
more,
if
they
b;
for
to
exercife the
po`
:
r
of
Chrift, then;(as
in
Acts
14.)
they
are with
prayerand
'fafting and innpofition
of
hands
brought
into their
places
:
It's
a
folemne and
great
bufinef
'e,
and
alt'
Nth-lifters
of
God
fhould confider
of
this prayer
of
Chrift
in
way
of
preparation
for
the
Minifiry
;
Confider
of
it,
and ex-
ercife
their
faith
imbeleevin;.the ble'iing of
it
upon
them
:
Now
Whereas
thrift
himfelfe-
faith
in
the._
-17
Phn
i,o.
That
he.