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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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1. Show what Kind of Rulers may fitly be called strong Rods.
1. Shew what Kind of Rulers may fitly be called strong Rods.
2. Show why the Removal of such Rulers from a People by Death is to be looked upon as an awful Judgment of GOD on that People, and is greatly to be lamented.
2. Shew why the Removal of such Rulers from a People by Death is to be looked upon as an awful Judgment of GOD on that People, and is greatly to be lamented.
1. I would observe what Qualifications of those who are in public Authority and Rule may properly give 'em the Denomination of strong Rods.
1. I would observe what Qualifications of those who are in publick Authority and Rule may properly give 'em the Denomination of strong Rods.