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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. When those that are in Authority are endowed with much of a Spirit of Government, this is another Thing that entitles them to the Denomination of strong Rods. When they not only are Men of great Understanding and Wisdom in Affairs that appertain to Government, but ⟨p. 11⟩have also a peculiar Talent at using their Knowledge, and exerting themselves in this great and important Business, according to their great Understanding in it; when they are Men of eminent Fortitude, and are not afraid of the Faces of Men, are not afraid to do the Part that properly belongs to them as Rulers, though they meet with great Opposition, and the Spirits of Men are greatly irritated by it; when they have a Spirit of Resolution and Activity, so as to keep the Wheels of Government in proper Motion, and to cause Judgment and Justice to run down as a mighty Stream; when they have not only a great Knowledge of Government, and the Things that belong to it in the Theory, but it is as it were natural to them to apply the various Powers and Faculties with which GOD has endowed them, and the Knowledge they have obtained by Study and Observation, to that Business, so as to perform it most advantageously and effectually.
3. When those that are in Authority are endowed with much of a Spirit of Government, this is another Thing that intitles them to the Denomination of strong Rods. When they not only are Men of great Understanding and Wisdom in Affairs that appertain to Government, but ⟨p. 11⟩have also a peculiar Talent at using their Knowledge, and exerting themselves in this great and important Business, according to their great Understanding in it; when they are Men of eminent Fortitude, and are not afraid of the Faces of Men, are not afraid to do the Part that properly belongs to them as Rulers, though they meet with great Opposition, and the Spirits of Men are greatly irritated by it; when they have a Spirit of Resolution and Activity, so as to keep the Wheels of Government in proper Motion, and to cause Judgment and Justice to run down as a mighty Stream; when they have not only a great Knowledge of Government, and the Things that belong to it in the Theory, but it is as it were natural to them to apply the various Powers and Faculties with which GOD has endowed them, and the Knowledge they have obtain'd by Study and Observation, to that Business, so as to perform it most advantageously and effectually.