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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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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.
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 dispos'd to take a much greater Freedom in their Talk and Behaviour, than they dared to do in his Presence.
He was not unmindful of Death, nor insensible of his own Frailty, nor did Death come unexpected to him. For some Years past he has spoken much to some Persons of dying, and going into the eternal World, signifying that he did not expect to continue long here.
Added to all these Things, that have been mentioned to render him eminently a strong Rod, he was attended with many Circumstances which tended to give him Advantage for the exerting of his Strength for the public Good. He was honourably descended, was a Man of considerable Substance, had been long in Authority, was extensively known and honoured abroad, was high in the Esteem of the many Tribes of Indians in the Neighbourhood ⟨p. 27⟩of the British Colonies, and so had great Influence upon them above any other Man in New-England; GOD had endowed him with a comely Presence, and Majesty of Countenance, becoming the great Qualities of his Mind, and the Place in which GOD had set him.