DELIVERED DECEMBER 16, 1821; BEING THE FIRST LORD'S DAY AFTER THE COMPLETION OF A CENTURY FROM THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH IN THAT PLACE, AND THE WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF COHASSET. BY JACOB FLINT, MINISTER OF THAT TOWN. BOSTON: PRINTED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS, NO. 4 CORNHILL, CORNER OF WATER STREET, 1822. DELIVERED DECEMBER 16, 1821; BEING THE FIRST LORD'S DAY AFTER THE COMPLETION OF A CENTURY FROM THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH IN THAT PLACE, AND THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST PASTOR. PRINTED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS, NO. 4 CORNHILL, CORNER OF WATER STREET, 1822. AND TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY WHICH IT DESCRIBES, IT IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THEIR SINCERE AND OBLIGED FRIEND, A. Mudge & Son, Printers. THE AUTHOR. DISCOURSE I. JEREMIAH Vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. Most of you, my hearers, drew your first breath, tasted your earliest pleasures, and formed the most tender and attractive associations within the limits of what is now called Cohasset. If you have that attachment to the place of your nativity which is said, by a profound statesman and scholar,* to be felt by every virtuous mind an "attachment tender and sublime, which vibrates in every fibre, and is intermingled with every affection of the heart," you will feel a lively interest in whatever relates to this town, the birth place of your fathers and yourselves, and which has furnished the principal scenes of your labours, pleasures, and hopes. It has been a laudable practice for serious and grateful minds to commemorate, at remarkable periods, God's goodness and mercies towards them, manifested by his everwatchful and beneficent Providence. Speaking in the name of the church and people of Israel, I will mention, said the prophet, the loving kindness of the Lord, according to all that he hath bestowed on us. The fourth day of the last week completed a century, since * Hon. J. Q. Adams. † December 13, 1821. |