A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Rev. Aaron Bancroft, D.D.: Senior Pastor of the Second Congregational Society in Worcester, Delivered at His Interment, August 22, 1839

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T.W. & J. Butterfield, 1839 - 40 sivua
 

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Sivu 26 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Sivu 23 - Let it be our prayer, my friends, that we may " die the death of the righteous, and that our last end may be like his.
Sivu 8 - ... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and...
Sivu 24 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...
Sivu 23 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence: for this was all thy care To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Sivu 28 - Dr. FREEMAN has been generally regarded as the earliest advocate of Unitarianism in this country ; but it is not generally known, that when he was refused ordination by his superior clergy on account of the change in his opinions, Dr. Bancroft had already taken his position, — was consulted by him — had consented to assist at his ordination over the Society at King's Chapel, and was prevented only by their dispensing with an ecclesiastical council and adopting lay services.
Sivu 14 - I thank you for your kind letter of Dec. 30th, and above all for the gift of a precious volume. It is a chain of diamonds set in links of gold. I have never read nor heard read a volume of sermons better calculated and adapted to the age and country in which it was written.
Sivu 3 - TIMOTHY, i?. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the LOBD, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day. UNDER the most ordinary circumstances, it is impossible to contemplate the termination of human life, but with the interest of a personal relation. It is the end of so much that is known, and the beginning of so much that is unknown, that it is not easy to witness, much less to...
Sivu 14 - December 30th; and above all for the gift of a precious volume. It is a chain of diamonds set in links of gold. I have never read, nor heard read, a volume of sermons better calculated and adapted to the age and country in which it was written. I have conversed freely with most of the sects in America, and have not been inattentive to the writings and reasonings of all denominations of Christians and Philosophers; but, after all, I declare to you that your twenty-nine sermons have expressed the result...
Sivu 32 - He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Leicester Academy for thirty years, and long its President ; President of the Worcester County Bible Society ; President of the American Unitarian Association, from its organization in 1825 to 1836...

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