Something to aim out not just for ministers but for every Christian in everything, even chatting on social media.
"Use Two. For exhortation, whether in doctrine, discipline or carriage. And it is in the apostle’s words, “for as much as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church” (1 Cor. 14:12), we had need to take the exhortation in all things to aim mainly at the edifying of the body of Christ. In every sermon, in every exercise of discipline, in every meeting together, in every word we speak in our meeting, in all the steps of our carriage, look to edify. " James Durham, “A Sermon on Ephesians 4:11–12,” Collected Sermons of James Durham: Sixty-one Sermons (Naphtali Press and Reformation Heritage Books, August 2017), 925.
From the one new found sermon from manuscript that existed in full that appears in the 1800 page 2 volume Collected Sermons of James Durham, available at a good price at Reformation Heritage Books. https://www.heritagebooks.org/…/collected-sermons-of-james-…
"Use Two. For exhortation, whether in doctrine, discipline or carriage. And it is in the apostle’s words, “for as much as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church” (1 Cor. 14:12), we had need to take the exhortation in all things to aim mainly at the edifying of the body of Christ. In every sermon, in every exercise of discipline, in every meeting together, in every word we speak in our meeting, in all the steps of our carriage, look to edify. " James Durham, “A Sermon on Ephesians 4:11–12,” Collected Sermons of James Durham: Sixty-one Sermons (Naphtali Press and Reformation Heritage Books, August 2017), 925.
From the one new found sermon from manuscript that existed in full that appears in the 1800 page 2 volume Collected Sermons of James Durham, available at a good price at Reformation Heritage Books. https://www.heritagebooks.org/…/collected-sermons-of-james-…
