Buckminster, Joseph. A Sermon preached at the Installation of Rev. James Thurston, to the Pastoral Charge of the Church in Manchester. Portsmouth: Printed at the Oracle Press, 1809. First Edition. [12072]
Removed, includes the half-title page, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 32 pages, foxing, newly stab-sewn. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is John xi. v. "Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus." Pastors must love the people of their church, with the example drawn from Jesus and the family of Lazarus.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster (1751-1812), b. Rutland, MA; d. Readsboro, VT. A Yale graduate (1770) and the orthodox minister of the North Church at Portsmouth, NH, from 1779 to 1812.
Rev. James Thurston (1769-1835), b. & d. at Exeter, NH. After serving as pastor of several churches in New England he was for the last 20 years of his life the minister of the Congregational church in his hometown of Exeter.
