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God in Christ Jesus for supporting and comforting mercies. May the Father of
mercies pity and pardon unworthy, sinful me, and renew my strength out of
weakness, that I may become more active, zealous and prudent in my conversation
at home and abroad, and prepare me and my house for all His will concerning us.
I leave my cares and concerns with my Father, who is merciful and faithful in J.
C. Amen.
November ’84
3. Since last Monday I have been indisposed of a feverish cold; and desire to be
humbled under a sense of my many defects, and my unworthiness to administer in
Holy Things. May the Father of mercies restore my feeble frame, and strengthen
unworthy me for the performance of the duties I have undertaken. Fain would I
go up to Schenectady. If not, the will of the Lord be done, and oh, may I be
resigned and wait on His mercies. Pity, Lord, and pardon and prosper us in Jesus
Christ. Amen.
10. Blessed be the God who heareth prayer, and has strengthened me to perform
the duty I had undertaken in Schenectady. I preached from 1 Thessalonians
5.12,13 179 and Dominee Romein on 2 Corinthians 4.7, 180 , and in the evening in
English from Psalm 95.6-8a. 181 May the Lord hear our supplications, and bless
His Church, servants, and people, with the blessings of the gospel in J. C.
Amen. 182
13. Yesterday the congregation was but small, on account of the weather being
cloudy and rainy. I desire to lament the lukewarmness of my people, and oh, may
His own become more zealous, and myself also more fervent in spirit. Our
defects and the inequities of our Holy Things deserve the indignation and the
chastisements of our Lord, who has been and is still so gracious and forbearing.
Oh, may we entreat His grace, not to leave us, but to stay with us in mercy and
power, to call poor perishing ones to His blessed self, and to awaken His sleeping
people to a proper sense of sins and duty. Father of mercies, pity Thy unworthy
servant and his family, pardon our sins, and deliver us from our inequities. Create
a new heart within us and cause us to wait before Thee in Holy Reverence and
filial fear. Oh, make us more than conquerors over all snares and temptations to
sin, and be pleased to restrain the fury of the Evil One and a wicked world. Give
us Thy peace and love, and may we rejoice in Thy goodness, for Christ’s sake.
Amen.
14. Blessed be the Father of all for the continuance of His mercies on unworthy
me. Oh, may I be more and more impressed with a sense of His goodness and be
strengthened, with others of His servants, in and for the service of His Sanctuary.
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But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labor among you, and have charge
of you in the Lord and admonish you; esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at
peace among yourselves.
180
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you
received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?
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O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his
voice! Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
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Westerlo was paid £9-6-8 for his services [Pearson 1980:119].
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