Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §37

Ordaining elders

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Thus also Paul and Barnabas themselves, as we read in the following chapter, when they returned again to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, confirmed the souls of the disciples, and when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with fasting, commended them to the Lord. Verse 23 (Acts 14:23).

1771 text

Thus also Paul and Barnabas themselves, as we read in the following chapter, when they returned again to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, confirmed the souls of the disciples; and when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, commended them to the Lord, ver. 23.

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Sermon 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.

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