Excerpt from Ministry of the Word, Eldership, and the Lord's Supper: An Earnest, Loving Word From an Ex-Clergyman to Some of His Former Colleagues The blessings the Lord has granted me, the holy, happy liberty He has shown me, my heart longs to share with you. I cannot write to you all: so the press must serve my turn; and it may be the Lord will thus graciously make what I pen a source of light and blessing to others as well. I want to ask you to look into the word a. Little with me, as to its teaching on ministry in the church of God; and I beg you by the remembrance of by gone days of happy fellowship in Christ, and still more' by the faithfulness we mutually owe to Him, to take into His own presence the scriptures to which I invite your attention, and seek their mean ing from Himself. If, as I trust, you still hold to the foundations of former days, we are at one as to the supremacy of holy scripture. We accepted together the state4 ministry or the word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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