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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 RODS of a Community.
EZEK. XIX. 12. Her strong Rods were broken and withered.
IN Order to a right understanding and improving these Words, these four Things must be observed and understood concerning them.
1. Who she is that is here represented as having had strong Rods, viz. The Jewish Community, here as often elsewhere, is called the People's Mother. She is here compared to a Vine planted in a very fruitful Soil, v. 10. The Jewish Church and State is often elsewhere compared to a Vine; as Psal. lxxx. 8, &c. Isa. v. 2. Jer. ii. 21.