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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 very eminently endowed with a Spirit of Government. The GOD of Nature seemed to have formed him for Government, as though he had been made on Purpose, and cast into a Mould, by which he should be every Way fitted for the Business of a Man in public Authority. Such a Behaviour and Conduct was natural to him as tended to maintain his Authority, and possess others with Awe and Reverence, and to enforce and render effectual what he said and did, in the Exercise of his Authority. He did not bear the Sword in vain: He was truly a Terror to evil Doers. What I saw in him often put me in Mind of that Saying of the wise Man, Prov. xx. 8. The King that sitteth in the Throne of Judgment scattereth away all Evil with his Eyes. He was one that was not afraid of the Faces of Men; and every one knew that it was in vain to attempt to deter him from doing what, on mature Consideration, he had determined he ought to do.—Every Thing in him was great, and becoming a Man in his public Station. Perhaps never was there a Man that appeared in New-England, to whom the Denomination of a Great Man did more properly belong.
He was very eminently endowed with a Spirit of Government. The GOD of Nature seem'd to have formed him for Government, as though he had been made on Purpose, and cast into a Mould, by which he should be every Way fitted for the Business of a Man in publick Authority. Such a Behaviour and Conduct was natural to him as tended to maintain his Authority, and possess others with Awe and Reverence, and to enforce and render effectual what he said and did, in the Exercise of his Authority. He did not bear the Sword in vain: He was truly a Terror to evil Doers. What I saw in him often put me in Mind of that Saying of the wise Man, Prov. xx. 8. The King that sitteth in the Throne of Judgment scattereth away all Evil with his Eyes. He was one that was not afraid of the Faces of Men; and every one knew that it was in vain to attempt to deter him from doing what, on mature Consideration, he had determined he ought to do.—Every Thing in him was great, and becoming a Man in his publick Station. Perhaps never was there a Man that appear'd in New-England, to whom the Denomination of a Great Man did more properly belong.