32 results filtered with: 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]- Books
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Jubilee; an half-century discourse, in two parts; on occasion of the completion of fifty-years, since the author's ordination. Delivered at Norwich, on the Lord's-Day, Nov. 29th, 1767. And published at the desire of some that heard it. By Benjamin Lord, A.M. Pastor of the First Church there. [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Lord, Benjamin, 1694-1784.Date: 1768- Books
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A caution to erring Christians relating to the ministry. By Nathanael Stone. In pastoral relation to the people in Harwich. December 1735.
Stone, Nathanael, 1667-1755.Date: 1736?]- Books
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The salvation of souls the desire and endeavour of every faithful minister of the gospel. Being the substance of two sermons from Romans x. 1. Preached before the Presbytery of Edinburgh, at the admission of some Brethren to the work of the Ministry within their bounds; with some few Additions. By John Gowdie Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh.
Gowdie, John, 1707-1777.Date: 1736- Books
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A letter of advice from one clergyman to another, on an important occasion.
Graves, John, -1785.Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
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An answer to Mr. Tucker's Letter to Mr. Chandler. Relative, more especially, to a marginal note or two in his sermon preached at Newbury-Port, June 25, 1767, preparatory to their settling of a minister. By James Chandler, author of said sermon.
Chandler, James, 1706-1789.Date: 1767- Books
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A reply to the Rev. Mr. Chandler's Answer: containing, more specially the author's vindication of himself in his first letter; and a farther consideration of the unlawful use, which is sometimes made of confessions of faith, and such kind of writings; and particularly with respect to candidates for the ministry. In a second letter to Mr. Chandler. By John Tucker, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Newbury.
Tucker, John, 1719-1792.Date: 1768- Books
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No lawful ministry without a divine mission, asserted in a sermon Preach'd at a Visitation of the Clergy held at Chichester, June the 8th, 1712. By Daniel Lafite, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, and Rector of Woollavington, in the Country of Sussex.
Lafite, Daniel.Date: 1713- Books
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Personal religion, a necessary qualification in a minister of the gospel. A sermon, preached at a meeting of ministers, in Newcastle upon Tyne, August 3d, 1743. By George Bruce, ...
Bruce, George, M.A.Date: 1744- Books
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The duty of Christ's ministers to be spiritual labourers; and the duty of Christ's churches to pray to God for such: exhibited in a sermon, from Matthew ix. 38. Preached at Dorchester, April 29, 1774. A day set apart by the church and congregation there, for solemn humiliation and supplication, to seek the divine direction and blessing in the choice and settlement of a minister among them. [Seven lines of quotations] By Samuel Dunbar, M.A. Pastor of the First Church in Stoughton.
Dunbar, Samuel, 1704-1783.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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A sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of Bangor, on Sunday, September 25, 1791, at a general ordination, held by John Lord Bishop of Bangor. By Peter Williams, A.M. Head-Master of Bangor-School. Published at the request of his lordship.
Williams, Peter, approximately 1756-1837.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- 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, D.D. Pastor of a church in West-Springfield. [Two lines from Peter]
Lathrop, Joseph, 1731-1820.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The duty of ministers to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. John Ellis, in the Second Society of Norwich, the 6th. day of September, 1753. Also the charge given upon that occasion. By Samuel Dunbar, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Stoughton. To which is added, the right hand of fellowship, by the Reverend Mr. Hobart Estabrook, of East-Haddam.
Dunbar, Samuel, 1704-1783.Date: 1753- Books
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The anabaptist teachers no ministers of Christ, prov'd in a letter to Mr. Charsley an anabaptist teacher at Agmondesham. And in a reply made to Mr. Stennet's remarks upon the aforesaid letter. By John Ball, Late of St. Mary Hall, Oxon.
Ball, John, 1681 or 1682-1750.Date: [1708]- Books
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A sermon preach'd at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Walter Wilmot at Jamaica on Long-Island. April 12. 1738. By E. Pemberton. To which is added, a brief discourse upon the Divine appointment of the Gospel ministry, and the methods of it's conveyance thro' the successive ages of the church; deliver'd upon the same occasion: with the charge given at the ordination. By the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Dickinson. Published at the request of the hearers.
Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777.Date: 1738- 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, D.D. Pastor of a church in West-Springfield. [Three lines from Peter]
Lathrop, Joseph, 1731-1820.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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The duty of ministers, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God. A sermon preached to the First Parish in Braintree, December 13. 1753. Being a day set a-part by them for solemn humiliation and prayer for divine direction in their choice of a minister. By Samuel Dunbar, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Stoughton. [Five lines from I Corinthians]
Dunbar, Samuel, 1704-1783.Date: 1754- Books
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The danger of an unconverted ministry, considered in a sermon on Mark VI. 34. Preached at Nottingham, in Pennsylvania, March 8. anno 1739,40. By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. and Minister of the Gospel in New-Brunswick, New-Jersey. [Five lines from Jeremiah]
Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764.Date: 1740- Books
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The various branches of ministerial duty explained and enforced; with some particular directions respecting the manner of life and deportment. A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Azel Roe, at Woodbridge, in New-Jersey, August 12, 1761. By the Rev. Caleb Smith, A.M. Published since the author's decease, by a lover of his memory.
Smith, Caleb, 1723-1762.Date: 1762- Books
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An account of the great distress brought by the rebels on the loyal parishioners of St. Ninians, near Stirling.
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Letters to a young clergyman, from the late Reverend Mr. Job Orton. [Six lines from Tillotson]
Orton, Job, 1717-1783.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]