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THE

SERVANT OF THE LORD

DESCRIBED AND VINDICATED,

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SERMON,

Delivered at PROVIDENCE CHAPEL,
Feb. 17, 1788.

BY

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S.

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL

AT PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, LITTLE TITCHFIELD-STREET; AT MONKWELL-STREET CHAPEL, IN THE CITY; AND AT RICHMOND, IN SURREY.

And the band of the Lord fhall be KNOWN toward his fervants, and his indignation toward his enemies, Ifa. lxvi. 14. Then fhall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that ferveth God and him that ferveth bim not, Mal. iii. 18.

LONDON:

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SERMON,

From 2 TIM. ii. 24, 25.

And the fervant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meeknefs inftructing those that oppose themselves.

HE apoftle dedicates this and the former

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epistle to Timothy, of whom in the bowels of Chrift he seems remarkably fond. He ftiles him his own fon in the faith; not only because he had begotten him in the bonds of the gospel, for in this fenfe he had many fons, but because there feemed fo much of the spiritual image and heavenly likeness of the father about him—I trust to fend Timotheus; for I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your ftate, Phil. ii. 20. and because of his dutiful deportment and diligent attendance and readiness to affift his venerable father in the word and work of the Lord-But you know the proof of Timothy, that as a fon with the father be bath ferved with me in the gospel, verse 22. And because there feemed fo strong an affec

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