The Christian Preacher's Commission 1831 Jeremiah Day

Day, Jeremiah. The Christian Preacher's Commission: A Sermon, delivered before The General Association of Connecticut, at Saybrook, June 22, 1831. New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, 1831. First Edition. [10716] Removed, newly sewn into an acid-free wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 20 pages. Good. Pamphlet. The text is Ezekiel 33:7, "So then, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me." Two main points: I. The preacher is to resort directly to the scriptures, to learn what the will of God is; and II. This is to be the subject of his communications to his people. Jeremiah Day (1773-1867), b. New Preston, Conn.; d. New Haven, Conn. A graduate of Yale College (1795), Day was a Congregational minister who also taught school, including as a tutor at Williams College and Yale College. After travel to Bermuda to recover from tuberculosis, he returned to Connecticut where the climate suited him better, and by 1