A Centurial History of the Mendon Association of Congregational Ministers: With the Centennial Address, Delivered at Franklin, Mass., Nov. 19, L851, and Biographical Sketches of the Members and Licentiates

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Página 9 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Página 53 - Associationism leads to Consociationism ; Consociationism leads to Presbyterianism; Presbyterianism leads to Episcopacy ; Episcopacy leads to Roman Catholicism ; and Roman Catholicism is an ultimate fact.
Página 74 - That the Candidates of the Ministry undergo a due Tryal by some one or other of the Associations, concerning their Qualifications for the Evangelical Ministry; and that no particular Pastor or Congregation Imploy any one in Occasional Preaching, who has not been Recommended by a Testimonial under the Hands of some Association.
Página 18 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; But with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, Saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Página 96 - America, he was particularly attached to this exercise. But what principally enabled him to do so much was regularity, for it does not appear that at any period of his life he spent more than six or eight hours per day in business that required much mental exertion. I find in the same diary, which I have quoted from above, that he laid down the following daily arrangement of time for a minister's studies : Studying the Scriptures 1 hour. Practical writers 1-2 an hour.
Página 260 - These anxieties of the dying Professor were not altogether without reason. He knew the situation in which he was about to leave the Seminary. Without an instructor, he presumed, of course, that the students would soon be scattered ; and when...
Página 132 - And lie was consulted frequently and long. In the course of his ministry, he was invited to more than a hundred Ecclesiastical Councils, nearly all of which he actually attended. Dr. E. was an early and true friend, an earnest and active promoter, of Christian Missions. " He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, and one of the leading and most efficient men SECOND SERIES, VOL.
Página 18 - ... pulpits, and see if there is such a glory there as once there was ; New England has had teachers eminent for learning, and no less eminent for holiness, and all ministerial accomplishments. When will Boston see a Cotton and a Norton again ? When will NewEngland see a Hooker, a Shepard, a Mitchel, not to mention others.
Página 107 - Greeting : — We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your courage and good conduct, do by these presents constitute and appoint you, the said...
Página 230 - Generous in temper, correct in science, and liberal in sentiment; the Gentleman, the Scholar, and the Minister of the Sanctuary, appeared with advantage in Mr. Pond. The Church and first Society in Ashford were favored with his Gospel Ministry eighteen years.

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