...immediately by his own blessed mouth : (Luke x. 16.) " He that heareth you, beareth me; and he that dcspiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." I am sensible, that some proud, ambitious churchmen have, " with great swelling words of vanity," magnified...

...distinctions, if it be good : Christ saith to his apostles in regard of their relation to him, " He that heareth you, heareth me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me;" and yet who doubts, but they that heard the apostles, did properly hear them, and they that despised them,...

...distinctions, if it be good : Christ saith to his apostles in regard of their re* lation to him, " He that heareth you, heareth me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth me ;" and yet who doubts, but they that heard the apostles, did properly hear them, and they that despised them,...

...represent: according to what our Saviour told his disciples when he sent them out to preach the gospel, He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. Nor did people of ancient times rest in this outward behaviour; for they gave all imaginable proof...

...he declared to those, who were to record his instructions, and to disperse them through the world; " He that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent • John xii. 44, &c. b John iii. 16—18. c John xv. 22—24. me d ." For Jesus was " that stone,...

...they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Luke x. 16. He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. 1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man so account of tu, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries...

...so far from being a confutation, that it would be another confirmation. As for the other, "He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you,...and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me ;" it is so far from justifying; their interpretation, that it hath nothing in it like that which founds...

...name. This idea is almost explicitly asserted in the instructions given on this occasion. Hethalheareth you, heareth me, and he that despiseth you, despiseth...he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me." From this nothing can be plainer, than that the ministers of Christ are to act as his representatives...

...days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you," Acts xiii. 41. " He that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me," Luke. X. 16. To the openly profane : " Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be...

...he stands in the King's place. So Christ has declared, — "He that receiveth you,receiveth Me :" " He that despiseth you, despiseth Me ; and he that despiseth Me, despiseth Him that sent Me." Whoso resists any Divine ordinance or appointment, undoubtedly resists its great Author. If a church...