Excerpt from The Pastor's Claims to the Remembrance of His Flock: A Sermon, Preached at St. John's Chapel, St. Marylebone, the 13th Sunday After Trinity, 1854, in Memory of the Rev. Thomas Wharton, M. A., Late Incumbent of the Chapel From whose lips were heard the words whereby we might be saved' - at whose hands we received the washing of regeneration, ' and were fed throughout the years of our pilgrimage with the blessed bread of life.' There was indeed to this primitive gene ration of the Hebrew Christians a reason of special weight and cogency for remembering those who had been their guides' in the faith and obedience of the Gospel - for these were either Apostles, as, e; 9, St. James already adverted to - who were themselves guided, in all that they taught and ordained in the Churches, by immediate inspiration of the Holy Ghost, or they were men divinely gifted, though called'to a ministry of lower degree, as was St. Stephen, one of the seven deacons, and the first fruits of the noble army of martyrs. 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.