| William Reeves - 1709 - 546 pages
...celebrated by any Company of Men profeffing the name of Chrift, tbo' the Scripture I think is exprefs, that no Man taketh this Honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God as Aaron was. He makes no fcruple tike-wife to declare f WaterBaptifm no lafting Precept, nor ever... | |
| Thomas Brett - 1715 - 276 pages
...Functions of a Prieft, fhould immediately and rafhly thruft himfelf into that Office. For fo fays the Text, No Man taketh this Honour to himfelf but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. Thus it was under the Jewish Law^ where we find the Nature of this Office was fuch, that... | |
| William Gordon (of Aberdeen.) - 1718 - 138 pages
...Ordination and Appointment to that Office that makes a Prieft, and not Abilities alone : For Heb. v. .4. No man taketh this Honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God as was Aaron , and according to this divine Law, no Perfon a^rnongft the Diffenters, fo much as pretending... | |
| Charles Leslie - 1723 - 186 pages
...becaufe the Scripture fays exprefly, bow flail they preach without they are fent : And in another Place, no Man taketh this. Honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God-} as was. Aaron. And how that was, fhall be fhewn in the fequd of this Difcourfe. AND to fhew you, that... | |
| Robert Warren - 1728 - 246 pages
...the Church ; yet to the Office of Preaching, they muft jlill be ordained -t for, as was faid before, No man taketh this honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God, that is, authorized thereunto, by the Way or Method, divinely prefcribed. And that the Apoftles Defign,... | |
| William Jones - 1756 - 198 pages
...HOLY GHOST faid, feparate ME Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I HAVE CALLED them. Heb. V. 4. No man taketh this honour to himfelf, but he that is CALLED of GOD. The fhorter way is to afk this fame Saul, "who it was that appointed him to the 'work of the mintftry... | |
| Martin Madan - 1772 - 106 pages
...Minifters. Firft, That they be called or moved inwardly of GOD to take upon them the Office. Heb. v. 4. No Man taketh this Honour to himfelf but he that is called of GOD, as was Aaron. See Art. XXIII. Note i. Secondly, That they be outwardly called a»d fent forth by Men... | |
| John Griffith - 1779 - 458 pages
...nifter, let him do it as of the ability "which God giveth." The author to the Hebrews faith, that " no man taketh this " honour to himfelf, but he that is called '' of God, as was Aaron." So that whatever fome may pretend to, and intrude themfelves into, unlefs they are really... | |
| Church of England - 1796 - 596 pages
...as it is fet down in Scripture, as a {landing rule agreed to Jfeb. T. 4. jn all times and places : no man taketh this honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. Rom. xii. St. Paul, in his Epiftles to the Romans and Corinthians, did ''GO 8° " rec'con... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 630 pages
...(ham call, for a piece of bread : they can never be true and faithful guides for fouls, that do fo. " No man taketh this honour to himfelf, but he that is called of God." And in oppofition to fuch, it is the duty of the Lord's people at this day to " (land faft in the liberties... | |
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