A sermon, preached at Orange-Street Chapel, Leicester-Fields, on Sunday the 26th of August, 1787; : occasioned by the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D. D. rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. / by John Townsend.

  • Townsend, John, 1757-1826.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A sermon, preached at Orange-Street Chapel, Leicester-Fields, on Sunday the 26th of August, 1787; : occasioned by the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D. D. rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. / by John Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    David; who avows his own ignorance of it_, at- ^ tends his burial in perfon ; mourns for him with unfeigned grief, and addrelfes his courtiers in the language of my text, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man jallen this day in I Jr a el ? It is impoffible to confider the temper and con- du61; of David in this affair, biit with admiration. Abner had appeared hoflile to the views and intereft of David, and had been the chief inftru- ment in drawing all Ifrael after Ifliboflieth; and ' yet now that he falls, inflead of efteeming it matter of triumph, or viewing it as a judgment upon him for any perfonal oppofition to him, he confiders it as matter of grief and lamentation. The language of David, on this occafion, fhews the honourable fentiments he entertained of Ab¬ ner, and the particular efteem and friendfhip he had for him : yea, it fhews the patriotifm of the King of Ifrael, who mourned for him becaufe he ^ ' confidered hini as a lofs to the community at large. How unlike David are thofe wretched O beings, whofe revengeful hearts will forgive no wrongs ; and whofe jaundiced eyes can difcern no merit in any that are not of their party, and' who either thwart their wifhes, or contradiQ: their opinions ! B 2 . David ■i. \