346 Dolor Horton Sermali tilijeas 0 he Minitlry ttre tiecipienrs' thereo1,petfons employed-in the work, therefore are Paid to be workers together with Go4,2Cor. 6.t. but the power & t fficacy thereof is fromGod alone: Paul &A- pollo are but Minitte s,'t is God that giveth the bleyi,Igi'Els not of us in two reipeas. I. Ti< nor merited by u ,'tis norof our d ferving,nor of o: r procuring; t '1 is not of our ing; the hell & mofl acco-n- plifh'd do no, merit it: I receive a mercy@aith Pauljco be faithful: he accounted it a trercy to be em,. loyed,&tobe faithful therein. 2,'Tis no olc ur own procuring, we do nor obtain it by our csva power, as: Peter Paid in the recovery of the lame man,/t is not by any power & ho lingfs ofours,that this man is regored,8Ec. And to it is not our gi. ts 8c in,ultry only that will make our IstLta4lry powerful, and therefore in the work let us he looking up to God; and defi re him to us, as Mofes fai6 If thot goeft not, 0 Lord, upwithus , wherefore fhonli we go he ice ? to fay 1, if the pretence of God--be not with us , what can we do ? And further , whmwe do partake of any meafure of ability, fee where we determine it : Not unto us, Lord, not unto km, but tin.. to thy Name be all the glory-: t. e mull not facrifice to our own nor give the hpnou' to our cwi instrul y', but wholly give the praife to God, becaufe the excellency is ofGod. 2. But in the fecond place,, if you look upon the words refLxive- ly , or as haying their connexion tot he svo-ds going before , and fa they will agree and hold together ,- and thus you may read them e therefore is this rreafure in earthen veq-els , that the excellency of the power may be acknowledg'd rob_ of God, and not of us : if is were in Angels, or had we never fo firong bodies, yet the excellencyof the power of God would nor he fo clearly Peen, as_it is now , being hid up an poor ,. frail Vcfffels Here's thepower of God , here's the itiare andglory of God moil manifeRed ; for fo much the more ap pare' tly it will he teen robe fromGod , by fo much the weaker the irfirument is, that is employed by God : therecore if any thing cloth aa beyond its own power, it mull have tome foreign powers for the produci-g fut. h and ftichaas ; therefore when we fee any greater matter done ky poor , frail , and contemptible perfor.s of earthen vAiels, this cloth plainly (hew the excellency ofthe power to be of God, Ind not of Men therefore look forn man to God, it is God that doh there tiungs,, we fhottld. nver-look, ea thfn veffels; we ihold ( 1 f ) -look men that arc thefe e-rrhen veffels , and look ro God that rwles theMinititypnwe! rutin: ftichconveyances as. the', 3 e. Fu; therm( re , It may fat. s5e us of the,Mini,.ry in that are yards,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=