The Wall and the Garden: Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1670-1775A. W. Plumstead U of Minnesota Press, 1991 - 390 pages |
Contents
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ON EDITING THE TEXT | 38 |
SAMUEL DANFORTH Errand into the Wilderness 1670 | 45 |
SAMUEL WILLARD The Only Sure Way 1682 | 79 |
COTTON MATHER The Way to Prosperity 1689 | 107 |
SAMUEL DANFORTH An Exhortation to All 1714 | 141 |
THOMAS PRINCE The People of New England 1730 | 177 |
JOHN BARNARD The Throne Established by Righteousness 1734 | 221 |
JONATHAN MAYHEW A Sermon 1754 | 281 |
SAMUEL COOKE A Sermon 1770 | 321 |
SAMUEL LANGDON Government Corrupted by Vice 1775 | 347 |
TEXTUAL NOTES | 377 |
INDEX | 379 |
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Popular passages
Page 56 - What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings
Page 329 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 271 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 59 - I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 57 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 279 - Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 362 - Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.