204 History of H Ingham. 



Ebenezer Gay. 



Ministers Men of like Passions with Others. From Acts xiv. 15. " We 

 also are men of like passions with you." Preached at Barnstable, at 

 the Ordination of the Rev. Joseph Green, 1725. 



The Transcendent Glory of the Gospel. 2 Cor. iii. 10. " For even that 

 which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the 

 glory that excelleth." Preached at the Lecture in Hingham, 1728. 



A Pillar of Salt to season a Corrupt Age. Luke xxii. 32. " Remember 

 Lot's wife." Lecture in Hingham, 1728. 



Zechariah's Vision of Christ's Martial Glory. Zech. i. 8. " I saw by 

 night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among 

 the myrtle trees that were in the bottom ; and behind him there were 

 red horses, speckled, and white." Before the Ancient and Honourable 

 Artillery Company, 1728. 



The Duty of People to Pray for and Praise their Rulers. Ps. lxxii. 15. 

 " Prayer also shall be made for him continually, and daily shall he 

 be praised." Lecture in Hingham, on occasion of the arrival of His 

 Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, Esq., to his government, 1730. 



Well-accomplished Soldiers a Glory to their King, and Defence to their 

 Country. 2 Chron. xvii. 18. "And next him was Jehozabad, and 

 with him an hundred and fourscore thousand, ready prepared for war." 

 Before several Military Companies in Hingham, 1738. 



Ministers' Insufficiency for their Important and Difficult Work. 2 Cor. 

 ii. 16. " To the one we are the savour of death unto death, and to the 

 other the savour of life unto life ; and who is sufficient for these things." 

 At Suffield, at the Ordination of the Rev. Ebenezer Gay, Jan. 

 1741-42. 



The untimely Death of a Man of God lamented. 1 Kings xiii. 30. "And 

 they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother." At the P^uneral of 

 the Rev. John Hancock, Braintree, 1744. 



The Character and Work of a Good Ruler, and the Duty of an Obliged 

 People. 2 Sam. xxi. 17. " Then the men of David sware unto him, 

 saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench 

 not the light of Israel." An Election Sermon, 1745. 



The true Spirit of a Gospel Minister. John i. 32. " And John bare 

 record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and 

 it abode upon him." At the Annual Convention in Boston, 1746. 



The Alienation of Affections from Ministers. Gal. iv. 13, 14, 15, 16. 

 "Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto 

 you at the first. And my temptation which was in the flesh ye despised 

 not, nor rejected ; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ 

 Jesus. When is then the blessedness ye spake of? For I bear you 

 record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your 

 own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your 

 enemy because I tell you the truth ? " In Boston at the Ordination of 

 the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, 1747. 



The Mystery of the Seven Stars in Christ's Right Hand. Rev. i. 16. 

 " And he had in his right hand seven stars." In Scituate at the Ordina- 

 tion of the Rev. John [Jonathan] Dorby, 1751. 



Jesus Christ the wise Master Builder of his Church. Zech. ii. 1. " I 

 lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and, behold a man with a measur- 



