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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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GOD's awful Judgment in the breaking and withering of the STRONG RO… › APPLICATION.
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He was probably one of the ablest Politicians that ever New-England bred: He had a very uncommon Insight into human Nature, and a marvellous Ability to penetrate into the particular Tempers and Dispositions of such as he had to deal with, and to discern the fittest Way of treating them, so as most effectually to influence them to any good and wise Purpose.
And never, perhaps, was there a Person that had a more extensive and thorough Knowledge of the State of this Land, and its public Affairs, and of Persons that were jointly concerned with him in them: He knew this People, and their Circumstances, and what their Circumstances required: He discerned the Diseases of this Body, and what were the proper Remedies, as an able and masterly Physician. He had a great Acquaintance with the neighbouring Colonies, and also the neighbour Nations on this Continent with whom we are concerned in our public Affairs: He had a far greater Knowledge than any other Person in the Land of the several Nations of Indians in these Northern Parts of America, their Tempers, Manners and the proper Way of treating them, and was more extensively known by Them, than any other Person in the Country: And no other Person in Authority in this Province, had such an Acquaintance with the People and Country of Canada, the Land of our Enemies, as He.
And never, perhaps, was there a Person that had a more extensive and thorough Knowledge of the State of this Land, and its publick Affairs, and of Persons that were jointly concerned with him in them: He knew this People, and their Circumstances, and what their Circumstances required: He discerned the Diseases of this Body, and what were the proper Remedies, as an able and masterly Physician. He had a great Acquaintance with the neighbouring Colonies, and also the neighbour Nations on this Continent with whom we are concerned in our publick Affairs: He had a far greater Knowledge than any other Person in the Land of the several Nations of Indians in these Northern Parts of America, their Tempers, Manners and the proper Way of treating them, and was more extensively known by Them, than any other Person in the Country: And no other Person in Authority in this Province, had such an Acquaintance with the People and Country of Canada, the Land of our Enemies, as He.