SERMONS - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

SoutHeRn MAnuScRipt SeRMonS BefoRe 1800
facing the first page of the sermon. A loose sheet, presumably a later addition to
the sermon, is an invitation to Communion. This sheet, somewhat larger than
the remaining pages, is frayed at the right hand margin. Some letters are lost, but
the meaning is clear. The last page of the sermon contains a list of baptisms to be
recorded in the parish register.
Keywords: soul, immortality of; death, fear of; Judgment Day; immortality, belief in;
Holy Communion;
291. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“[On Immortality.]” [Undated.] [Acc. No. 2208]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: 1 Ep: Cor: Ch 15, V 58. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast
[sic], unmoveable [sic], always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know, yt your labor is not in vain in the Lord.[”]
Commentary: The cover of the sermon is missing, so the title and the usual notes
regarding date of composition and places and dates preached are missing. Page
29 of the sermon was probably written inside the missing back cover. The extant
stitching suggests that no pages other than the cover are missing. This sermon
was found with the sermons of 1790 to 1792, and a reference to a “melancholy”
unhealthy season may indicate that the sermon was composed in the winter of
1790, but, only a few sermons composed from January through March of 1790 are
in the larger (exercise book) format of this sermon.
Keywords: repentance, necessity of; good works, need for; resurrection; life, eternal;
eternal life; death, meaning of; virtue, motives for; parable of the fig tree; fig tree,
parable of; foolish virgins, parable of; parable of the foolish virgins; unprofitable
servant, parable of; parable of the unprofitable servant; repentance, necessity of;
reformation, necessity of; repentance, inefficacy of deathbed; deathbed repentance,
inefficacy of; Second Coming of Christ; calamities, acceptance of; worldliness;
292. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“On the Immutability of God.” [1788] 1 + 1 + 28 + 2 blank pp. [Acc. No. 1763]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: Num. Ch 23, Ver 19. God is not a man, that he should repent: Hath he
said, & shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, & shall he not make it good?
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Scr[ipsit] Octr. 1786,” and “Preached in St
Pet & Xt Church, July 27th, 1788. St Paul’s, B, A M Sep. w, [17]92. Xt Church & St
Paul’s—[no date given].”
Keywords: God, immutability of; mutability of humans;
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