1817 Ordination Sermon, Qualifications for the Christian Ministry Sermons but Wheat was sown by

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1817 Ordination Sermon, Qualifications for the Christian Ministry Sermons but Wheat was sown byBates, Joshua. A Sermon, preached, Feb. 26, 1817, at the Ordination of the Rev. Rufus Hurlbut, to the Pastoral Office in the Church at Sudbury. Dedham: Abel D. Alleyne, Printer, 1817. First Edition. [11619] Newly strung with linen thread, no wrapper, 9 x 5 1 2 inches, 46 pages, some edges tattered, stains. Poor. Pamphlet. The text is Ephesians 4: 11 12, "And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers;