Elisha Lamenting After the God of Elijah: A Funeral Sermon Preach'd at Boston, March 27. 1737. Occasion'd by the Death of the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Wadsworth, Late President of Harvard-College in Cambridge, and Formerly Pastor of the Old Church in Boston. Who Departed this Life on March 16th. Having Just Enter'd the 68th Year of His AgeT. Fleet, 1737 - 69 pages |
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... Inftance clos'd the Scenes of an active , ufeful , valuable Life , devoted to the Honour of GOD and Benefit of his People , and worn out with long Application to Divine Studies , fervent Prayers , and im portant Services . For that was ...
... Inftance clos'd the Scenes of an active , ufeful , valuable Life , devoted to the Honour of GOD and Benefit of his People , and worn out with long Application to Divine Studies , fervent Prayers , and im portant Services . For that was ...
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... Inftance of bis Meekness and Condefcen tion , that he fo willingly conceded to the ( perhaps too hasty ) Defires and Attempts of bis People for the fixing one fo young , unfurnish'd , and unexperienc'd , a Partner with bim , in the ...
... Inftance of bis Meekness and Condefcen tion , that he fo willingly conceded to the ( perhaps too hasty ) Defires and Attempts of bis People for the fixing one fo young , unfurnish'd , and unexperienc'd , a Partner with bim , in the ...
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... Inftance of the Law's making Men Priefts , which bad Infirmity and Peter , that mighty Apoftle , was an Inftance of the Gofpel's making Men Minifters , which are are fometimes justly to be blamed . And perhaps feldom 56 A Funeral Sermon.
... Inftance of the Law's making Men Priefts , which bad Infirmity and Peter , that mighty Apoftle , was an Inftance of the Gofpel's making Men Minifters , which are are fometimes justly to be blamed . And perhaps feldom 56 A Funeral Sermon.
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... Inftance : nor could I ever obferve him to recom- mend very much this Memoriter - Delivery , when I've confer'd with him upon it : but he rather judg'd the Mi- nifter's Care to imprefs his Sermons upon his own Heart and Confcience , by ...
... Inftance : nor could I ever obferve him to recom- mend very much this Memoriter - Delivery , when I've confer'd with him upon it : but he rather judg'd the Mi- nifter's Care to imprefs his Sermons upon his own Heart and Confcience , by ...
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... Inftance of the Paftoral Care to be unnecella- rily omitted , as affording peculiar Opportunities for wa- tering the Seed fown in his public Preaching , by private dealing with Souls , and more direct Applications to Fami- lies and ...
... Inftance of the Paftoral Care to be unnecella- rily omitted , as affording peculiar Opportunities for wa- tering the Seed fown in his public Preaching , by private dealing with Souls , and more direct Applications to Fami- lies and ...
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Page 63 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page iv - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 21 - Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Page 10 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
Page iii - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment : That ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page v - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 62 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers ; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 10 - Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel : thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain...
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Page 39 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.