...were authorized to be the ministers of religion is evident from what he tells them, verse 16. He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that despiseth you...and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. From whence it is plain that they were his authorized ministers, even as he was God's : because as...

...obliged all Christian people to attend to and respect them as such. For he that heareth you, saith he, heareth me ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;...and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me, Luke x. 16. And 1 Cor. iv. I. the apostle enjoins all Christians to account of these spiritual guides...

...he himself declares to them, Luke x. 16. He that heareth you heareth me, ie because I speak by you ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me; because my authority is in you even as my Father is in me ; and therefore he who despises mine in you,...

...him ; and we cannot, without open contestation against God, resist his government therein over us. " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me," saith our Saviour. It is Christ himself, whose ambassadors we are, and with whom men have to do in...

...Son into the world. All this is very plainly evidenced by our Lord's observations to his disciples; " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." In candidly weighing all these points, in the balance of reason and in the light of scripture testimony,...

...rise superior to shame. He whom heaven has commissioned, needs no human applause to animate him. " He that despiseth you, despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." And what if men do condemn, while God approves ? There lies an a'ppeal from every human tribunal. To...

...offices and power they assume:) for they say that Christ declared with reference to them, ' He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me:' and relying on those words, and becoming insolent and daring by them, they say, they do, and they leave...

...ministers, but of his own authority in them. He that despiseth you, says our Lord to his ministers, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me; so said Moses and Aaron against Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, who presumptuously made priests of themselves;...

...him that sent me : for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great, do. x. 16: He that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despiseth you...and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. JOHN, xii. 44 : Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on 41 He that...

...than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you, heareth me : and he that despiseth you,...he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. § 7. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying ; Lord even the devils are subject unto us through...