A sermon preach'd in the parish-church of All-Saints in Northampton, before the President and Governors of the County Infirmary. For sick and lame poor, at the anniversary meeting on Monday, September 24, 1750 ... / [Thomas Hartley].

  • Thomas Hartley
Date:
1750
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Credit: A sermon preach'd in the parish-church of All-Saints in Northampton, before the President and Governors of the County Infirmary. For sick and lame poor, at the anniversary meeting on Monday, September 24, 1750 ... / [Thomas Hartley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    excellent Way. THESE Words are a Kind of connect¬ ing Claufe, bringing into one View of Comparifon the Subjedts of this and the following Chapter: In the former the Apoftle enumerates fome of thofe extraordinary Gifts which were bellow’d on the Church in its primitive State, as the Working of Miracles, Prophecy, Difcerning of Spirits, Diverfities of Tongues, with fome others, which, tho’ dif¬ ferent in Kind and Operation, yet, he tells the Corinthians, were Vouchfafements of one and the fame Spirit, various Adminiftrations under the fame Lord and Head of the Church, and therefore to be employ’d with a fingle Eye to his Glory, and for the Profit of his Members, for the perfecting of the Saints, for the Work of the Minifry, for the edifying of the Body of Chrif. (a) And then, by aptly pointing out the Analogy betwixt ChrifPs myftical Body and the Body natural, he infers* from the mutual Rela¬ tion and Dependence of the feveraf Parts and * Members (a) Eph, iv, 12,
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