The English Liturgy And Our Duties in Respect of It a Sermon Preached in the
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What if the two Sacraments of Christ's Church, ordained by Christ Himself, are either made light of, as Baptism, or utterly forsaken, as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper? What if the office of the minister of God, which is to admonish, lead, assist, direct the people in holy things, be ignored by multitudes, and the minister be never sought by the vast number of parishioners, 10 except by the wealthy as a companion or partaker of their wealth, by the poor as a ready help at a pinch, not as ha...ving any rule over them ; be wholly set at nought by the rich and the poor, called the ' parson' in contempt, though the word is a word of honour and respect ; set down by gossips and busy-bodies as High, Low, or anything which means that they do not believe in him as a person ordained of God for their spiritual help ? What if all this is the case, and grows and in- creases ? What if I, your minister, after twenty years' labour among you, see my church three parts filled with women and aged persons — see the able and the strong deliberately rejecting my ministry ?
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