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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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II. To show that when such strong Rods are broken and withered by Death, 'tis an awful Judgment of GOD on the People that are deprived of them, and worthy of great Lamentation.
II. To shew that when such strong Rods are broken and withered by Death, 'tis an awful Judgment of GOD on the People that are deprived of them, and worthy of great Lamentation.
And that on two Accounts,
1. By Reason of the many positive Benefits and Blessings to a People that such Rulers are the Instruments of.
Almost all the Prosperity of a public Society, and civil Community does, under GOD, depend on their Rulers. They are like the main Springs or Wheels in a Machine; that keep every Part in their due Motion, and are in the Body politic, as the Vitals in the Body natural, and as the Pillars and Foundation in a Building. Civil Rulers are called the Foundations of the Earth. Psal. 1xxxii. 5. and xi. 3.