LOVE TO JESUS CHRIST, AN EXCELLING QUALIFICATION IN HIS MINISTERS. A SERMON PREACH'D AT THE INSTALMENT OF THE REVEREND NATHANAEL WHITAKER, AT CHELSEA, IN NORWICH, FEB. 25TH, 1761. AND PUBLISH'D AT THE DESIRE OF SOME THAT HEARD IT. NOTE, THE PASSAGES WHICH (IN COMPASSION WITH THE AUDIENCE, IN THE OPEN FIELD, IN THAT SEASON) WERE OMITTED IN THE DELIVERY, ARE HERE INSERTED.
New-London: Printed and Sold by Timothy Green, 1761. 36pp, with the half title. Lightly toned. Bound in attractive modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, with gilt-lettered spine title. Very Good. Inscribed on the half title, 'E. Whitman's | The gift of the Author.'
An attractive New London imprint, by the minister of the First Church of Norwich, in New London County. Lord was ordained in 1717, and remained at that Church until shortly before his death in 1784. Lord speaks on the "Difficulties and Tryals" of the ministry, including "hard and knotty Cases to manage; and no small Trouble with Men of corrupt Minds, and obstinate in their wicked Practices."
Whitaker became a strong supporter of the American Revolution from his pulpit.
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Price: $500.00