A Sermon Preached in King's Chapel, November 22, 1835: The Sunday After the Funeral of the Rev. James Freeman, D. D.Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, 1835 - 25 |
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Strona 17 - His general manner, especially in his preaching, was so calm, sedate, and rational, with even occasional abruptness, that a transient observer might have been led to suppose that he was not apt to be moved, or that he was even deficient in feeling. But this would have been a mistake. His heart was full of feeling, which not unfrequently rose up to his eyes and flowed out in tears. A similar mistake might have been made concerning his piety. He had seen so much external piety which was false and delusive,...
Strona 4 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
Strona 9 - But since he had been among this small remnant of episcopalians as their minister, he had endeared himself to them by his engaging manners and his pastoral services, and it was by no means easy for his friends to part with him. At length a suggestion was made, which terminated in happy and important results. It was said, " Why not state your difficulties, and the grounds of them, publicly to your whole people, that they may be able to judge of the case, and determine whether it is such as to require...
Strona 11 - I perceive the proofs and marks of human ability, liberty and character. The young reader at King's Chapel was surely placed in peculiar circumstances. It is his praise that he made a right and manly use of them ; that he did not smother his convictions, and hush down his conscience, and endeavor to explain away to himself, for the sake of a little false and outward peace, the obvious sense of the prayers which he uttered before God and his people, but took that other and far better course of explicitness...
Strona 6 - His early life was not without incidents, though I am unable to state them with any particularity. The last year of his College life was spent during the troubles and strong excitements of the opening revolutionary war; and it is known, that his own feelings were so decidedly enlisted on the side of his native, and in opposition to the mother country, that he engaged in the disciplinary instruction of a company of men, which was raised on Cape Cod, for the purpose of joining the Colonial troops....
Strona 7 - While I was upon the Cape, I endeavored to visit all my friends ; for being now engaged in the church, I expect not to go there again for many years. The first time I preached at the Chapel, the church was opened with some degree of splendor. There was an anthem and other pieces of music exceedingly beautiful. The audience was immense, and of such a kind as to overpower all confidence. I felt the weight of it most sensibly. On Christmas day I had another trial of the same kind to pass through. The...
Strona 22 - He looked upon death, as it approached him, without fear, yet with pious humility. He viewed the last change as a most solemn change ; the judgment of God upon the soul as a most solemn judgment. ' Let no one say, when I am dead,' — so he expressed himself to his nearest friends, — ' that I trusted in my own merits.
Strona 17 - ... with his lot, — he was deeply grateful for his lot. The serenity of his countenance was an index to the serenity of his soul. The angel of contentment seemed to shade and fan it with his wings. ' I have enjoyed a great deal in this life,' he used to say, ' a great deal more than I deserve.
Strona 12 - ... which they call heresy, but who probably have not much knowledge of his writings, and have never conversed with the few surviving friends who still remember him, it is necessary...
Strona 10 - But such, as you well know, was not the event. He was heard patiently, attentively, kindly. The greater part of his hearers responded to his sentiments, and resolved to alter their Liturgy and retain their pastor. The first vote favoring this conclusion was passed on the 20th of February, 1785 ; by which vote a committee was appointed to report such alterations in the Liturgy as were deemed necessary. Alterations were reported, in general conformity with those made in the amended Liturgy of Dr. Samuel...