1 Chronicles 23

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXIII. It is an honour to God, and an advantage to his church, to have a proper number of faithful ministers; and pleasing is the prospect when their number remarkably increases. It is necessary and honourable to enter on God’s service as early as possible. Church affairs are likely to prosper when every one knows and attends to his particular work. And in whatever station a person is fixed, it is always his duty to be zealous and dillgent in God’s service. But what sovereignty God manifests in men’s stations! While the offspring of Aaron are dignified priests, those of Moses are but ordinary Levites; yet he always proportions men’s burdens to their strength. And it is comely when every one in the church cheerfully applies himself to the meanest service to which he is called; and when the officers thereof heartily harmonize in working to one another’s hands. 2