Part Iv. The Public Work Of The Christian Ministry.
PART IV. THE PUBLIC WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
The Public Ministry of the word is the most responsible part of our work—the grand momentum of Divine agency—the most extensive engine of Ministerial operation— not acting, like parochial visitations, upon individual cases—but with equal power of application to large numbers at the same moment. Baxter therefore justly remarks that it is ‘a work that requires greater skill, and especially greater life and zeal, than any of us bring to it.’ 770 It therefore well deserves a prominent and detailed consideration in passing over the Ministerial field, though a full discussion of its several particulars would furnish ample materials for a volume. We hardly need to remark that this description is more important than ever, when at the present time this Divine ordinance has been degraded from what we will see is its true Scriptural elevation.
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