Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

evenues, if he have God's wo, how miserable is his portion! Let none
apply this censure to any one class of preachers exclusively.
How many, by their attachment to filthy lucre, have lost the honour of
becoming or continuing ambassadors for the Most High!
How unutterable must the punishment of those be who are chaplains
to princes or great men, and who either flatter them in their vices, or wink
at their sins!
Were men as zealous to catch souls as they are to support their
particular creeds and forms of worship, the state of Christianity would be
more flourishing than it is at present.
There are multitudes of scribes, Pharisees, and priests; of reverend and
right reverend men; but there are few that work. Jesus wishes for
labourers, not gentlemen who are either idle drones or slaves to pleasure
and sin.
Alas! alas! how many preachers are there who appear prophets in their
pulpits; how many writers, and other evangelical workmen, the miracles
of whose labour, learning, and doctrine we admire; who are nothing, and
worse than nothing, before God, because they perform not his will, but
their own! What an awful consideration, that a man of eminent gifts,
whose talents are a source of public utility, should only be as a waymark,
or fingerpost, in the way to eternal bliss, pointing out the road to others,
without walking in it himself!
Where is the grand difference between the teaching of scribes and
Pharisees, the self-created or men-made ministers, and those whom God
sends? The first may preach what is called very good and sound doctrine;
but it comes with no authority from God to the souls of the people.
Therefore, the unholy is unholy still; because preaching can only be
effectual to the conversion of men, when the unction of the Holy Spirit