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Clergy - Appointment, call, and election
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All true ministers of the Gospel, are called into that work by the special influences of the Holy Spirit. A discourse shewing the nature and necesity of an internal call to preach the everlasting Gospel. Also marks by which Christ's ministers may be known from others, and answers to sundry objections: together with some observations on the principles and practices of many in the present day concerning these things. To which is added, some short account of the experiences and dying testimony of Mr. Nathanael Shepherd. By Isaac Backus, preacher of the Gospel.
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806.Date: 1754- Books
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A needful caution in a critical day. Or, The Christian urged to strict watchfulness. That the contrary part may have no evil thing to say of him. A discourse deliver'd at Lyme, Feb. 4th, 1741,2. By Jonathan Parsons, A.M. and Minister of the Gospel there. [Texts]
Parsons, Jonathan, 1705-1776.Date: 1742- Books
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A discourse preparatory to the choice of a minister. Being the substance of two sermons preach'd to the Old or First Gather'd Church in Boston, June 11. 1727. The Lord's Day before their election of a colleague-pastor. By Thomas Foxcroft, A.M. Pastor of the said church. [Four lines from Acts]
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: 1727- Books
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A vindication of the Protestant ministers mission; wherein is proved, both from scripture and reason, and the practice of the primitive churches, that the Christian people have sufficient authority from Christ to chuse their own ministers; and that no Man, or Set of Men, have any Authority from Christ to Call, Constitute, and Impose Ministers on them, without their Previous Knowledge and Consent. And That the Pretence of an Uninterrupted Succession of Priestly Authority derived from the Apostles in a direct Line thro the Church of Rome, is a mere Juggle, and a Piece of Popish Priest-Craft to awe the Vulgar, to make and keep them Bigots to themselves. Being a sermon preach'd at Taunton, To An Assembly of Protestant Divines, June 7. 1720. By John Davisson.
Davisson, John.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]- Books
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Christ's warning to the churches, to beware of false prophets, who come as wolves in sheep's clothing: and the marks by which they are known: illustrated in two discourses. By Joseph Lathrop, A.M. Pastor of a church in West-Springfield. [Two lines from Peter]
Lathrop, Joseph, 1731-1820.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]