The Completion of Two Centuries: A Discourse Preached in Fairfield on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1839 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Completion of Two Centuries: A Discourse Preached in Fairfield on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1839

While on these accounts therefore, I have abandoned my first intention, of preparing an historical 'narrative of this town or par ish, it has nevertheless seemed to me that so interesting a year as that which winds up the great cycle of two centuries in the ex. Istence of atown, ought not to pass away without any such publicnotice or recognition, as will remind the people generally of the fact, And as this great cycle of history has been prolific of events, demanding our most fervent gratitude to the great Ruler of Na tions and arbiter of their destinies events in consequence of which we are permitted to enjoy this sacred festivity, and meet in this sanctuary of our fathers to offer up to the Giver of all good our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving it behooves us to make it the subject of grateful meditation and to this end your attention is called for a short time, not to an elaborate address specially prepared for a great occasion, but to a few things put together during the time and in the way of an ordinary prep'ar. Ation for the pulpit.

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Excerpt from The Completion of Two Centuries: A Discourse Preached in Fairfield on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1839

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and His wonderful works that he hath done.

In this passage and the context the Psalmist announces his purpose to narrate the dealings of God with his people, in the varied vicissitudes through which they had been borne by his wonder working providence and grace. He thus indicates the importance of 'not hiding,' or of rescuing from concealment and oblivion the important events in the past history of a people, that they may stand forth as beacons for the guidance of present and future generations. He says, 'I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us, * * * that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children; that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.'

The 'wonderful works' of God adverted tom the text, he proceeds to narrate in the subsequent part of the Psalm. They consist of his marvellous allotments to his ancient covenant people, appearing in alternate calamitous judgments and gracious deliverances, as it became needful, to abase their pride, scourge their lusts, and punish their unbelief, or to recover them from despair, awaken gratitude, and rekindle faith in the goodness and veracity of a covenant God. The deliverance out of the land of Egypt and the house of bondage, the forty years migration in the wilderness, the drying of the Red Sea, the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, the dropping of manna from Heaven, the gushing forth of water from the smitten rock, with other signal interpositions of God, natural and supernatural, by which the nation had been preserved; these according to the Psalmist ought to be heralded and blazoned before their posterity. Thus, and thus alone, would they know to what Being they owed their distinguished benefits, by what methods he conveyed and secured them to their possession; to whose favor they must look for future preservation and prosperity; and by what means that favor could be propitiated.

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