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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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As Government is absolutely necessary, so there is a Necessity of strong Rods in Order to it: the Business being such as requires Persons so qualified; no other being sufficient for, or well capable of the Government of public Societies: And therefore those public Societies are miserable that have not such strong Rods for Sceptres ⟨p. 17⟩to rule; Eccles. x. 16. We to thee O Land, when thy King is a Child.
As Government is absolutely necessary, so there is a Necessity of strong Rods in Order to it: the Business being such as requires Persons so qualified; no other being sufficient for, or well capable of the Government of publick Societies: And therefore those publick Societies are miserable that have not such strong Rods for Scepters ⟨p. 17⟩to rule; Eccles. x. 16. We to thee O Land, when thy King is a Child.
As Government, and strong Rods for the Exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public Societies from dreadful and fatal Calamities arising from among themselves; so no less requisite are they to defend the Community from foreign Enemies. As they are like the Pillars of a Building, so they are also like the Walls and Bulwarks of a City: They are under GOD the main Strength of a People in a Time of War, and the chief Instruments of their Preservation, Safety and Rest. This is signified in a very lively Manner in the Words that are used by the Jewish Community in her Lamentations, to express the Expectations she had from her Princes, Lam. iv. 20. THE BREATH OF OUR NOSTRILS, The anointed of the LORD, was taken in their Pits, of whom we said, UNDER HIS SHADOW we shall live among the Heathen. In this Respect also such strong Rods are Sons of the most High, and Images or Resemblances of the SON of GOD, viz. as they are their SAVIOURS from their Enemies; as the Judges that GOD raised up of old in Israel are called,