102 CHRIST 'S ./tlgrrfs, fends forth all true Minifters: AI my Futber hath fens me, fo fend I you, Joh. 2o, 2r. it is Chrift that fends Minifters ro the Church, as he told Jerufalcm : Behold I fend unto you Prophet r, and VV. femex and Serides,Mat 23.34.YIecaged the twelve, and began to fend them forth by two and two, &c. Mar. 6.g.Sohecalledthe feventy and fene themaifo,Luk,ro. r. fo it is Chrift that fends Minifters to -this day. True, the Church does ordaine them; I, but if they be not fent by him too, they are intruders. Now when he fends them,they ate his Minifters, though it be the Church that puts them into Orders. As it is with a true Confiable, though the Parifh chute him, yet he is the Kings Officer and does things in the Kings name i fo it is with every true Miniffer, Chrift bath the fending of him, he is the Minitier of Chrift, as the A poftle fay es; Let aman fo account of se ae the Miniflers of Chriff, i Cor.4. r . and therefore look what we do in our Of.. fice,we do it in his name. As he Paid, in the name of Je fus -Chrifl,rife up and walk: So we fay unto Gods Elea ; in the name of Jefus Chrift, rife up and walk.In the name of jefus Chrift repent of all your wicked wayes, and Beleeve, and though the world will not Rìr at our fpeecb , yet they that are eledted of God doe fir : they are none but the Repro- bate, that lye [lilt in their fins, fornetime or other we get all the Elea for to hear us. The ufe of this is ; frft, for comfort to us that are true Minifters, Chrift bath the fending of us, therefore certainly bee will bee with us in all his errands , the world may bee againft us, we may meet with many wolves : Behold! I fend you as fheep among wolves; people may threaten and (peak their words against us, a foot and a halfe long; what need we care for all their great Speeches, as long as Chrift fends us ?Chrift will he with us for the good of his Eleet,in all the courfe of our Miniflery, be it fhort or be it long : Wee fhaIl be ufefull to them what ever the world doe if there be any that pelong to God, we (hall finde them out, no matter for others. Chrift will be with us in the Pulpit, in the prifon, in the dog-hole, if yee would put us into sty as Chrift told his
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