Excerpt from A Gospel Minister, Though Young, Should Be Respectable by His Example: A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, to the Pastoral Care of the Church in West-Chester, in Colchester, October 1, 1806
The bible is a store-house of intellectual treas 'ure, of immense value. Would we learn the most wonderful. Things, into which men or angels are ca pahle of looking would we learn to conduct our Selves with that beautiful propriety, Whitsh will render us acceptable to God, to holyangels, to saints and to the excellent of the earth Would we become Wise unt'o salvation, we should search the scriptures with all diligence. Gospel ministers, particularly, should possess a thorough knowledge of the contents of the sacred volume. The priest's lips should keep know ledge, and the people are to seek the law at his month. He should be established in the belief of the great doctrines that God hath revealed, andin' the practice of the duties that God hath enjoined, that he may incul cate them with clearness, prec1is1ou and firmness.
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