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 one of Samuel Worcester, later the influential correspondent of the ABCFM. The sermon was of such value, that it was requested to be preached again, at the ordination of Nathaniel Hall of New York. Excellent. Finely printed.

Text: Ezekiel 33.7. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore, thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them for me.  

Austin, Samuel. The Nature, Extent, and Importance, of the Duty, binding on the Christian Minister, divinely commissioned to bear the Warnings of God to Men: Illustrated in a Sermon, Preached in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on the 27th day of September, 1797, at the Ordination of the Rev. Samuel Worcester; and again, by Particular Request, in Granville, in the State of New York, on the 4th day of the following October, at the Ordination of the Rev. Nathaniel Hall. Now Published, from the Press, in Compliance with Desire, Manifested on both Occasions. Worcester. Leonard Worcester. 1798. 32pp.

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.