...faithfully executed, to reject it, is to reject not man but God. Remember Who hath said, " He that heareth you, heareth Me ; and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth Me, despiseth Him that sent Me." * But, in the second place, the Objectvfliich the Minister has in view, strongly obliges the people...

...that their words are also and equally the words of their Master. Jesus himself said to them, " He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." " As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." " Receive ye the Holy Spirit." " He will guide you...

...labourers into his harvest. Go YOUR WAYS, behold I send you forth as lambs amongst wolves : He that heareth you heareth me, and he that despiseth you...: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent pie." Luke x. 2, 3, 16. " Go YE, 'THEREFORE, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the...

...received that power, and whose ministers they were. So Luke x. l(j, our Lord says to his apostles, '' He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." Now although he that despised the apostles, despised not only Christ, but God himself, it did not hence...

...He that recciveth you, receiveth me ; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent mee. He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you,...and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent mef. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he...

...the candid Consideration of all the Friends of Peace and Piety of every Denomination. p. 13. Q4 he, " heareth me; and he that despiseth " you despiseth...he that despiseth " me despiseth him that sent me q ." After his resurrection, he renewed and ratified the powers of his Apostles: " Peace be unto "...

...Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you heareth rne; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. * And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, an4 tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit...

...sake1." Thus our blessed Saviour says to his chosen followers: " He that heareth " you heareth me j and he that despiseth " you despiseth me; and he that despiseth " me despiseth him that sent me m." And St. Paul declares, " he that despiseth, de" spiseth not man, but God°." Neither is it without...

...receiveth you, receiveth me; and he that " receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me." Matt. x. 40.— "and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that " despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." Luke x. 16. A super-eminent instance is this, and of infinite weight, as our blessed Lord, besides...

...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...