Archbishop Leighton admirably sets forth John the Baptist as
an example to Ministers of the gospel: to live, as much as possible in their condition and
station, disengaged from the world—not following its vain delights and ways—not bathing in
the solaces and pleasures of earth, and entangling themselves in its care; but sober and
modest, and mortified in their way of living; making it their main business not to please the
flesh, but to do service to their Lord, to walk in his ways, and prepare his way for him in the
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See 2Cor. 4.1.
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Rev. 1.13-20.
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1Tim. 6.12.
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Isa. 8.12-14.
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Heb. 11.27.
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Prov. 29.25.
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On this subject see a most valuable chapter in the Bishop of Winchester’s Ministerial Character of Christ—
‘The self-denial of the Ministry of Christ.’
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Exhortation to Priests: that is (as Archbishop Seeker expounds it) ‘not making either gross pleasures, or more
refined amusements, even literary ones unconnected with your profession—or power, or profit, or advancement,
or applause, your great aim in life; but labouring chiefly to qualify yourselves for doing good to the souls of
men, and applying carefully to that purpose whatever qualifications you attain.’—
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri...
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