The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; A Sermon Delivered at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 15, 1823, at the Ordination of the REV. Loammi Ives Hoadly, to the Pastoral Office Over the Calvinist Church and Society in That Place
The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; A Sermon Delivered at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 15, 1823, at the Ordination of the REV. Loammi Ives Hoadly, to the Pastoral Office Over the Calvinist Church and Society in That Place
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. 1824 Excerpt: ...step a little out of their sacred profession. When they interfered with government--and they seldom interfered but by their advice--they only complied with a pressing invitation. I ask, now--was the reverence paid to our profession, under such circumstances, such an unpardonable crime, that the punishment must be ...
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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. 1824 Excerpt: ...step a little out of their sacred profession. When they interfered with government--and they seldom interfered but by their advice--they only complied with a pressing invitation. I ask, now--was the reverence paid to our profession, under such circumstances, such an unpardonable crime, that the punishment must be visited on us unto the third and fourth generation? Because our fathers, betrayed by some of the beat affections of the human heart, may possibly have set the clergy too high--will you consider them as useless, to be blown away like chaff from the floor? But you will ask--is this representation just? The very first preachers in the colony might have been mortified and self-denying men. But did there not follow a very different class? Men who step into the influence which others had acquired; of a sour aristocratic character. We remember some, you will say, who seemed to rule with the rigor of a Romish priesthood. We remember w hen the prelate of the parish used to stalk round, with his awful white wig--and his visage screwed into a formal sanctity--infusing terrors into all the children he met. We remember.the servile bows which we paid him and the gloomy terrors that he infused into our hearts. He was in fact the little Pope of his scanty dominion; and he exacted and received the triple crown. I wish not, my hearers, to defend any thing that is wrong; I see that manners have changed; and that much of that aristocratic trapping which distinguished the gentlemen of the last age has disappeared. We are now becoming republicans in fashions, as well as in laws. If the clergy of the last age were austere and too fond of influence, I am sorry for the mistake. But I beseech you to be equal in your judgment. Were not other classes in the same error? We had...
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