A Sermon, Delivered in Christ Church, West Haven: The Eleventh Sunday After Trinity, (being August 11th,) 1839, the Hundredth Anniversary of Laying the Foundation of the Church

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Hitchcock & Stafford, 1839 - 28 pagina's

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Pagina 2 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity: we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors.
Pagina 3 - Another parable set He before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is less than all seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Pagina 2 - And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pagina 27 - Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Which Offices were evermore had in such reverend estimation, that no man might presume to execute any of them, except he were first called, tried, examined, and known to have such qualities as are requisite for the same ; and also by public Prayer, with imposition of Hands, were approved and admitted thereunto by lawful Authority.
Pagina 15 - ... moments to contemplate the character of him, who is justly styled the Father of Episcopacy in Connecticut, and to admire and adore that overruling Providence, which has evidently guided and governed us from the beginning. Upon the character of the Rev. Dr. JOHNSON, no one can dwell but with satisfaction. As a man, as a scholar, as a Christian, and as a minister, it is deserving of high eulogy. His talent for learning was very considerable, and his mind clear and discriminating. He had read much,...
Pagina 15 - ... possessed an advantage over almost every man he met. And when to this we add the kindness, the affection, and the sincerity of his manner, accompanied as it was by a life that evinced the reality of all his professions, it is not wonderful that he was able to hold the minds of such multitudes in subserviency to his own, or rather, we should say, it is no wonder that * Allen, 243.
Pagina 8 - King's (now Columbia) College, in the city of New York, where he graduated in 1772.
Pagina 27 - His absence ; for it is written that " the Church is the pillar and the ground of the truth ;
Pagina 7 - Government, to which no answer has been attempted; and Mr. JOHNSON read several of the earliest and best fathers, in their original languages. The effect was, that from the facts in scripture, compared with those of the Primitive Church, it appeared plain to them that the Episcopal government was universally established by the Apostles wherever they propagated Christianity; that through the first order of the ministry, called Bishops, the power of the priesthood was to be conveyed from the \ great...
Pagina 10 - Arnold graduated at Yale College, in 1723 — was a Congregational minister of the Church at West Haven, Connecticut. In 1734, he became an Episcopalian, and in 1736 went to England for orders. On his return from England, in 1737, he was appointed a missionary, and stationed at West Haven, Derby, and Waterbury, at which places he officiated until 1739, when he sailed for England, and was lost on the voyage.

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