Ministers: Labours of, Vain, Without God's Blessing

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1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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On the Management of the Resources Collected for the Support of ...
... by the Church, as being priests, Levites, presidents, and ministers of God ... every
person among the laity, doing anything without the priest, labours in vain. ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iv on the management of.htm

Man's Chief End
... head; when the magistrate does not wear the sword in vain, but labours to cut ... grief
and shame to think how many, who call themselves ministers, instead of ...
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Introduction
... as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the ... Pray that God will go forth with
their labours, or else they ... Ministers are but stars to light you to Christ. ...
/.../watson/the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/1 introduction.htm

Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World.
... When he labours in his own, he will think of ... as a means of keeping him from vain
and unprofitable ... this reason it is difficult for Christian ministers to speak ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xi doing glory to.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in ... it for it is a taking the Lord's
name in vain. ... Verse 8 speaks sadly against ministers that withdraw from their ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

The Struggler;
... And however some subtilly and vain-gloriously pretend to ... subscriptions, whereof about
thirty are ministers; which also ... great esteem our author's labours are in ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the struggler.htm

Introduction.
... religion; new churches may be built; new ministers appointed to ... Rites and ordinances
may be vain, prophets may be ... all our prayers, and all our labours; it is ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the christian life/introduction.htm

Notes
... with the Holy Ghost, cannot train its ministers and workers and ... to men to pray more
will be vain except this ... with him through all his coming life and labours. ...
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The Word
... For it is not a vain thing for you, it is your ... Satan labours to steal the word out
of the mind ... Ministers may prescribe physic, but it is God's Spirit must make ...
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Concerning Worship.
... and unnecessary confessions, with exercising corporal labours and austerities ... retiring
out of their vain imaginations and ... practised by all the ministers of the ...
/.../proposition xi concerning worship.htm