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Two discourses containing the history of the Old North and New brick churches, united as the Second church in Boston, delivered May 20, 1821, at the completion of a century from the dedication of the present meeting-house in Middle street

Ware, Henry, 1794-1843, 1821. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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Ware, Henry, 1794-1843

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Boston, Pub. by J. W. Burditt; S. Phelps, printer

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1821

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u M ! m l>^y^M 1 mii s jM 1 1 Pt m t ;fe M LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. i <y-^ (UH'- FORCE COLLECTION. UNITED STATK ,'S/'ife.'w^'* 0\ ^^^m^A; m' M TWO CONTAINING THE HISTORY OE THE OLD NORTH and NEW BRICK CHURCHES, UNITED AS THE SECOND CHURCH D^ BOSTON, DELIVERED MAY 20, 1821, COMPLETION OF A CENTURY FROM THE DEDICATION OF THE PRESENT MEETING-HOUSE IN MIDDLE STREET. BY HENRY WARE, MINISTER OF THE SECOND CHURCH AND SOCIETY. 1867 BOSTON ?/;v ^ . ,; PUBLISHED BY JAMES W. BURDITT, NO. 94, COURT STREET. Sewell Phelps, Printer. 1821. .opy2. SERMON I. THE OLD NORTH CHURCH. HAGGAI II. 3. Who is left among you that saxo this House in her Jirst glory ? — The house, my brethren, in which wc assemble to worship, has been occupied a hundred years. It was dedicated to that holy service to which it has always been sacred, on the tenth day of May, 1 721 ; — a centurj from which date, allow- ing for the difference of style, is this very day completed. An epoch so interesting, so fitted to recall the remembrance of past years, and to cxcile to salutary contemplation on the vicissitudes of a transitory world, and the dispensations of an unchanging God ; I am not willing to pass without explicit and large notice. It has been customary in our churches, on such an occasion, to review the way through which God has led them, and recount the history of his providence to their fathers. It is a good custom. And I doubt not, breth- ren, that you will be interested to go back with me, and trace the story of this church, and the character and doings of its ministers and people. To this object I purpose to devote the discourses of this day ; and though none are left that saw ihe first glory of this house, wc may thus all learn what it was, may find that it has at no period been withdrawn, and is not, even now, wholly departed. We are not confined, however, in this survey, to the his- tory of the last hundred years, but are led back through the seventy years previous. It is well known to many of you, though probably not to all, that the church in this place is formed by the union of two churches. When the Old North meeting-house, which stood at the head of North Square, had been destroyed by the British troops at the commence- ment of the revolutionary war, the minister and people unit- ed with the minister and people worshipping in this house, and became one church and congregation with them. The late venerable Dr. Lathrop, who so long ministered here, was ordained not over the church in this place, but over the church in North Square, and became pastor of the church in this place by the transfer of his relation after his own meeting-house had been destroyed. We are therefore equally interested in the history of the Old North, as of the New Brick* church, for it was equally the home of our an- cestors. It is a history, too, that deserves our attention ; for it was the second religious establishment in this important place, and numbers amongst its ministers some of the re- markable names of New England. To this, therefore, I ask your first attention. The town of Boston having been settled in 1630, ten years after the landing at Plymouth, the first building for publick worship was erected in 1632. This was sufficient for the accommodation of the inhabitants for

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