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A strong rod broken and withered. A sermon preached at Northampton, on the Lord's…A strong rod broken and withered. A sermon preach'd at Northampton, on the Lord's…
A strong rod broken and withered. A sermon preached at Northampton, on the Lord's Day, June 26. 1748. On the death of the Honourable John Stoddard, Esq; often a member of His Majesty's Council, for many years chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hampshire, judge of the probate of wills, and chief colonel of the regiment, &c. : Who died at Boston June 19. 1748. in the 67th year of his age. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Daniel]A strong rod broken and withered. A sermon preach'd at Northampton, on the Lord's Day, June 26. 1748. On the death of the Honourable John Stoddard, Esq; often a member of His Majesty's Council, for many years chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hampshire, judge of the probate of wills, and chief colonel of the regiment, &c. : Who died at Boston June 19. 1748. in the 67th year of his age. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Daniel]
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle for J. Edwards, 1748
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3. It should be understood and observed what is meant by these strong Rods being broken and withered, viz. These able and excellent Rulers being removed by Death: Men's dying is often compared in Scripture to the withering of the Growth of the Earth.
4. It should be observed after what Manner, the breaking and withering of these strong Rods is here spoken of, viz. as a great and awful Calamity, that GOD had brought upon that People: 'Tis spoken of as one of the chief Effects of GOD's Fury and dreadful Displeasure against them; But she was plucked up in Fury, she was cast down to the Ground, and the East Wind dried up her Fruit, her ⟨p. 7⟩strong Rods were broken and withered; the Fire hath consumed them. The great Benefits she enjoyed while her strong Rods remained, are represented in the preceding Verse; And she had strong Rods for the Sceptres of them that bear Rule, and her Stature was exalted among the thick Branches; and she appeared in her Height with the Multitude of her Branches. And the terrible Calamities that attended the breaking and withering of her strong Rods, are represented in the two Verses next following the Text; And now she is planted in the Wilderness, in a dry and thirsty Ground; and Fire is gone out of a Rod of her Branches, which hath devoured her Fruit. And in the Conclusion in the next Words, is very emphatically declared the Worthiness of such a Dispensation to be greatly lamented; So that she hath no strong Rod to be a Sceptre to rule; this is a Lamentation, and shall be for a Lamentation.
4. It should be observed after what Manner, the breaking and withering of these strong Rods is here spoken of, viz. as a great and awful Calamity, that GOD had bro't upon that People: 'Tis spoken of as one of the chief Effects of GOD's Fury and dreadful Displeasure against them; But she was plucked up in Fury, she was cast down to the Ground, and the East Wind dried up her Fruit, her ⟨p. 7⟩