Excerpt from A Sermon Preached by the Revd; Mr. John Conder, May 11, 1758, at the Ordination of the Revd; Mr. John Stafford to the Co-Pastorship With John Guyse, D. D., In the Church of Christ Meeting at New-Broad-Street: Together With an Introductory Discourse by the Revd; Mr. Thomas Gibbons, the Church's Recognition of Their Call, Mr. Stafford's Acceptance of It, His Confession of Faith, and an Exhortation Delivered to Him by the Revd; Mr. Thomas Hall As thefe holy and heaven-born Souls are fcattered over this World as Sheep in a Wil dernefs, {0 they, like Sheep, love to colleet themfelves and afiociate together, and in deed it is the Will of their great Mai'ter, that, as they properly belong to one Fold already, and (ball foon be incorporated into one gene ral Society, fo they fhould in their Pafiage to Heaven, and as a kind of Anticipation of the eternal catholic Communion above, not go hugle and folitary in their Path to Glory, but travel together in greater or fmaller Compa nies, as Circumftances and Opportunity of fer, till they {hall all appear before their God in the heavenly Zion, where, mingling with the blefi'ed Spirits already in Heaven, they {hall form one univerfal Affembly at their Father's Throne, the Centre of general At traction, and of their final and everlafiing Refidence and Felicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.