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Townsend, Jonathan, 1721-1776. Sermon, October 22, 1752. bMS 735/1 (1), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.

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This unsigned, autograph manuscript sermon is twenty-two pages long and was composed in 1752. It is based on the Gospel of Luke 10:41-42. The end of the sermon notes several other places and dates where it was delivered.

Biographical Notes

Jonathan Townsend was born in 1721 in Needham, Massachusetts to Mary Sugars and Jonathan Townsend. He graduated from Harvard in 1741, and was ordained in 1745. He was installed at the church in Medfield, Massachusetts, and was chaplain in Colonel Bagley’s regiment at Louisburg in 1760. He resigned from his pastorate in 1769, and he died from smallpox in 1776 in Dedham, Massachusetts.

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When we reflect upon our past lives, ande consider lost life have had in Veiw, What has been our Delight our DeSire and pursuit, We may See many things of which we have Reason to be ashamed and for which we Should be deeply humbled; While we have been too unmindful of that which Should be the chief Concern. Let the Time push of our lives Suffice us to have been thus careless, And now Knowing the Time that it is high Time to awake out of Sleep, let us awake to Rights and Sin no more Let us devote our Selves to the fear of God and the Honour of the Redeemer. Let us make Religion our Business and eve :ry Thing subservient to its do :ing even common Actions after a godly Sort Thus. let us pass the Time of our Sojourning here in fear Trusting in God to bless our Endeavours after food are banquets for us us being contented ye tell of {heights} of Providence and labour not for the Meat ye perisheth but for th but for that Meat which is to eternal Life, And may that be our happy portion & may feast upon it to be full Thro {Christ}

Preached Att Medfield {October 22 1752 PM Medway OP {November 26 1752 PM Natick December 17 1752 PM Needham April 1 1753 PM Sherburn June 17 1753 PM June 22 1766

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