The Christian Examiner (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Excerpt: ... ' When dangers threaten, or when sorrows try, To shield, to save her, to thy charge be given On hovering wing receive her parting sigh, Guide her freed soul, and welcome her to heaven ' pp. 144-147. Art. V.--1. A Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Thomas Hollis, Esq. By Jeremiah Hunt. London. 1731. 2. A Sermon preached at the Lecture in Boston, April 1, 1731, before His Excellency, the Governor, and the General Court; upon the News of the Death of the much honored Thomas Hollis, Esq., the most generous and noble Patron of Learning and Religion in the Churches of New England. By his Friend and Correspondent, Benjamin Colman. Boston. 1731. 3. A Sermon preached at the Public Lecture, Tuesday, April 6, 1731, in the Hall of Harvard College, in Cambridge, N. E., upon the News of the Death of Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, the most bountiful Benefactor to that Society. By Edward Wigglesworth, D. D. and Hollis Professor of Divinity. Boston. 1731. 4. A Philosophical Discourse concerning the Mutability and Changes of the Material World; read to the Students of Harvard College, April 7, 1731, upon the News of the Death of Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, the most bountiful Benefactor to that Society. By Isaac Greenwood, A. M. Hollisian Professor of Philosophy and the Mathematics. Boston. 1731. 5. A Poem on the Death of the late TJiomas Hollis, Esq. By Sayer Rudd. London. 1731. It is due to the memory of an early and distinguished patron of learning in this country, to collect and put on record such historical notices as remain of his life, character, and benefactions. This is the more necessary in the case of Thomas Hollis, as a controversy has been repeatedly started respecting his real intentions in regard to one of the most considerable of his donations, and it is high time that the question...