The Pastoral Care. A Sermon Preached at Suffield, in the State of Connecticut, March 6, 1793, at the Ordination of the Reverend Ebenezer Gay, Jun. as a Colleague-Pastor with the Reverend Ebenezer Gay, D.D. [Half title: Doctor Dana's Sermon at the Ordination of the Reverend Ebenezer Gay, Jun.]
New-Haven: T. & S. Green, 1793. Very Good. Item #29347
New-Haven: T. & S. Green, 1793. First Edition. Octavo; removed, modern stitching applied; 32pp. Moderate soiling to external leaves, especially along spine edge of half title, else Very Good and sound.
Congregationalist ordination sermon providing the usual advice to a young minister assuming his first congregation: "How express and repeated are the apostle's cautions, given to a young minister, to shun controversial preaching, which young ministers especially are most apt to adopt" (p. 17, "controversial" in italics).
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