"Though all good men be called God's servants in their general vocation, yet they cannot be called the minister of God but to a more special use."

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“That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law.”

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“Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, that the Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth for the good of God's saints.”

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