We're a big fan of the ordination sermon. They provide a uniquely concentrated and intentional statement of the core values and perspectives of the Church in a given time and place. This is even further concentrated in the "charge" at the end, where the most important functions of the Gospel Ministry are laid on the Pastor as primary sacred duties. Both personally and historically interesting reading.

Excellent ordination sermon preached at the installation of Timothy Clark, meant to spur the young divine to faithfulness, not on the basis of the approval or sneers of his community, but on the sure promises of Him that called him.

Text: I Corinthians 3.8. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.  

Burton, Asa. A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Timothy Clark, To the Pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in Greenfield, January 1, 1800 Windsor, Vermont. Alden Spooner. 24pp.

Good +. Textually crisp and clean save some minor scattered foxing. At some point, part of a larger sammelband with associated flotsam to spine. Half title wanting.