Elisha Lamenting After the God of Elijah: A Funeral Sermon Preach'd at Boston, March 27. 1737. Occasion'd by the Death of the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Wadsworth, Late President of Harvard-College in Cambridge, and Formerly Pastor of the Old Church in Boston. Who Departed this Life on March 16th. Having Just Enter'd the 68th Year of His Age

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T. Fleet, 1737 - Funeral sermons - 69 pages
 

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Page 63 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page iv - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 21 - Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Page 10 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
Page iii - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment : That ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page v - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 62 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers ; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 10 - Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel : thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain...
Page 21 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Page 39 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.

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