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Discourses to the aged] / by Job Orton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BV4316.O7 O7 1801
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orton, Job, 1717-1783.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old age--Sermons.
- Old age.
- Sermons, English.
- Sermons.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Salem [Mass.] : Printed by Joshua Cushing for Thomas C. Cushing, 1801.
- Contents:
- The difference between the activity of youth and the infirmities of age
- Barzillai's refusal of David's invitation to Jerusalem
- The fruitfulness of aged Christians
- Caleb's reflection on the goodness and faithfulness of God to him
- The design and improvement of useless days and wearisome nights
- God's promise to bear and deliver his aged servants
- Israel's journey thro' the wilderness, an emblem of the Christian's state on earth
- The outward man decaying, and the inward man renewing
- Jacob's acknowledgment of the divine care, and blessing his grand-children
- Joseph's dying assurance to his brethren, that God would visit them
- The honour of aged piety
- The joy of the aged in leaving their descendants prosperous, peaceful and pious
- The hand of God in removing our friends far from us
- The assurance of rest and future glory gived to aged Daniel.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 1081
- OCLC:
- 7199198
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