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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 abhorred Profaneness, and was a Person of a serious and decent Spirit, and ever treated sacred Things with Reverence. He was exemplary for his decent Attendance on the public Worship of GOD. Who ever saw him irreverently and indecently lolling, and laying down his Head to sleep, or gazing and glaring about the Meeting-House in Time of divine Service? And as he was able (as was before observed) to discourse very understandingly ⟨p. 26⟩of experimental Religion, so to some Persons with whom he was very intimate, he gave Intimations sufficiently plain, while conversing of these Things, that they were Matters of his own Experience. And some serious Persons in civil Authority, that have ordinarily differed from him in Matters of Government, yet on some occasional close Conversation with him on Things of Religion, have manifested an high Opinion of him as to real experimental Piety.
He abhor'd Profaness, and was a Person of a serious and decent Spirit, and ever treated sacred Things with Reverence. He was exemplary for his decent Attendance on the publick Worship of GOD. Who ever saw him irreverently and indecently lolling, and laying down his Head to sleep, or gazing and glaring about the Meeting-House in Time of divine Service? And as he was able (as was before observed) to discourse very understandingly ⟨p. 26⟩of experimental Religion, so to some Persons with whom he was very intimate, he gave Intimations sufficiently plain, while conversing of these Things, that they were Matters of his own Experience. And some serious Persons in civil Authority, that have ordinarily differed from him in Matters of Government, yet on some occasional close Conversation with him on Things of Religion, have manifested an high Opinion of him as to real experimental Piety.
As he was known to be a serious Person, and an Enemy to a profane or vain Conversation, so he was feared on that Account by great and small. When he was in the Room, only his Presence was sufficient to maintain Decency; though many were there that were accounted Gentlemen and great Men, who otherwise were disposed to take a much greater Freedom in their Talk and Behaviour, than they dared to do in his Presence.