A Discourse Commemorative of a Forty Years' Ministry: Preached on the Twenty-Third of March, 1865 - Brossura
Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... DISCOURSE. Deut. II: 7. "These Forty Teaes The Lord Thy God HATH BEEN WITH THEE; THOU HAST LACKED NOTHING." I COR. 1:4. "I THANK MY GOD ALWAYS ON YOUR BEHALF, FOR THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN YOU BY JESUS CHRIST." These passages of the word of God are an index of the thoughts and emotions which I cherish on this occasion. Whether the number forty--" forty days " or " forty years"--has any occult or mystical meaning in Scripture, may be worthy of inquiry. Moses was "forty years old when he visited his brethren and looked on their burdens;" "forty years " he was in Midian under a discipline preparatory to his great life-work; "forty years" he was the leader and lawgiver of Israel, and even then "his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated." "Forty years" God "suffered the manners " of his people in the wilderness, and fed them all that time with manna from heaven, so that they lacked nothing. Caleb, who was faithful found among the faithless, was forty years old when with Joshua and others he was sent to spy out the promised land. Under the administration of wise and pious judges--as is often recorded--the land had rest "forty years." Forty years closed the priesthood of Eli, and the reign of David, of Solomon, of Jehoash and Joash in Jerusalem. Forty years ago this day, and at this hour of the day, a scene was enacted in the ancient church-edifice of this town, full of interest to that generation, which a few now present witnessed, and which we have assembled to commemorate. As that occasion installed me, by ordination, in the ministry of the Gospel over the First Congregational Church and Society in Concord, it will, I trust, be deemed appropriate to speak somewhat minutely, of the Antecedents, the AccompaNiments and the Consequents of...
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