Item #38088 AN ORDINATION SERMON PREACH'D AT ARUNDEL, NOVEMBER 4. 1730. AT THE GATHERING OF A CHURCH THERE; AND WHEN THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS PRENTICE WAS ORDAINED PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN SAID TOWN. BY THE REVEREND MR. JOHN BROWN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HAVERHILL. John Brown.
AN ORDINATION SERMON PREACH'D AT ARUNDEL, NOVEMBER 4. 1730. AT THE GATHERING OF A CHURCH THERE; AND WHEN THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS PRENTICE WAS ORDAINED PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN SAID TOWN. BY THE REVEREND MR. JOHN BROWN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HAVERHILL.

AN ORDINATION SERMON PREACH'D AT ARUNDEL, NOVEMBER 4. 1730. AT THE GATHERING OF A CHURCH THERE; AND WHEN THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS PRENTICE WAS ORDAINED PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN SAID TOWN. BY THE REVEREND MR. JOHN BROWN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HAVERHILL.

Boston, New-England: Printed by T. Fleet, for T. Hancock, 1731. 30, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched as issued, with the half title and final blank leaf. Very Good. With a contemporary inscription on the half title: "James Cushing's. The Gift of the Revd Author."

A scarce, early 18th century Sermon, in unusually attractive condition. Brown [1696-1742] counsels the souls who have gathered in Arundel [now Maine] to establish this Church: "In undertaking a new Settlement, People should see the Providence of God making their Way clear; they should have a Prospect of doing, and getting Good, and not needlessly go into a Wilderness meerly upon Worldly Views, to the great Prejudice of these Souls Interest. They should propose the Glory of God, as their ultimate End, and make the Word of God their Rule to guide them in all their Ways."
On page 21 a contemporary hand has crossed out the quotation from Numbers at the bottom of the page [still legible] and inserted, in the blank lower margin, "How goodly are thy Tents O Jacob, and thy Tabernacles O Israel."
Evans 3397. ESTC 21581 [9 locations]. Item #38088

Price: $950.00

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