Bates, Joshua. A Sermon, preached at Boston, January 4, 1816, before The Society for Foreign Missions of Boston and the Vicinity. Dedham: Printed at the Gazette Office, 1816. First Edition. [11611]
Removed, new acid-free wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 20 pages, foxing. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is 2nd Kings 7:2, "Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?" The thesis is that "Under the divine government, wonderful, unexpected, and to human view extremely improbable changes often take place, in the condition of mankind."
Rev. Bates presses the possibilities of God moving in wonderful ways in the ministries of evangelism and missions.
Joshua Bates (1776-1854), “an eminent Congregational minister” from Massachusetts. Bates graduated at Harvard College, served as a teacher in the Andover Phillips Academy, afterward ordained the pastor of the Church at Dedham, Massachusetts. In 1818 he became president of Middlebury College, and was chosen chaplain to the U. S. Congress.
