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See the Ordination and Consecration services. ‘Colligimus, neminem probum verbi Ministrum, quin non idem sit pecunise contemptor.’ Calv. in Acts 20.33. ‘The moment a strong and governing desire to accumulate property takes possession of a Minister’s mind—he may preach with orthodoxy, and some degree of animation—he may visit his parishioners to a certain extent—but he will not be a devoted labourer in the vineyard who has one object in view—the extension and glory of his Master’s kingdom—and who makes all his pursuits subservient to that object. It is just as impossible for a man to be a great accumulator of property and at the same time be a faithful devoted Minister of Christ, as it is to establish a fellowship between light and darkness, Christ and Belial.’ Professor Miller’s Letters, pp. 433, 434.