A TRUE MINISTER

The preacher that has not the doctrine of Christ, has not God, let him be who He will. It is an honor to withdraw from, yea, to be cut off and cast out of any church, when the preacher and the congregation have done with Christ, if the person withdraws, or is dismissed, with a good conscience. Jesus never revealed himself, as the Son of God, to the blind man restored, till he heard that the Eabbis had cast him out. Many in our days who could find no rest in a dwindling congregation, nor any peace under a declining and degenerating ministry, have been comfortably received, as sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, when they have been separated, and come out from among them. The ministry that does not stir the soul up, settles it on the lees. If it does not enlighten you, it will blind you; if it does not establish, it will stagger you; if it does not enrich you, it will beggar you; if it does not reveal Christ, it will obscure and hide Him; if it gathers not to Him, it will scatter from Him; if it does not quicken, it will deaden the soul. An uninsured preacher can be of no use to a starving soul, nor to a living soul; he cannot describe the case of the former, nor break the bread of life to the latter; I long sought relief from these, but all in vain. He must be a star in the Lord’s right hand that guides the benighted sinner into wisdom’s ways. The ministry of the letter can do no less than kill; it is the ministry of the Spirit that giveth life. The good Lord direct thee! So prays,

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