Superiour skill and wisdom necessary for winning souls, which is the grand design of the ministerial office : illustrated in a sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. John Sparhawk, to the pastoral office over a church of Christ in Salem; on the eighth day of December, 1736. By Nathanael Appleton, M.A. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge. Together with the charge given by the Reverend Mr. Holyoke; and the right hand of fellowship, by the Reverend Mr. Prescott. [Three lines of Scripture texts].