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Commentary: A note at the head in an unidentified hand reads “3a. Adventus.”
Boone, a native of Maryland, was a Jesuit until the suppression in 1773.
Keywords: worldliness; time, use of;
627. BOONE, JOHN. (MD; Cath.; 1735-1795; in MD 1765-1770, 1784-1795)
“[On the word of God.]” [1786] 15pp. [Acc. No. 102]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Qui ex Deo est, verba Dei audit. He that is of God, heareth the words of
God. Jo: 8. v.3.” [8, 47].
Commentary: A note at the head in an unidentified hand reads “On the word of
God.” A note at the end reads “May 29. 1786.” Boone, a native of Maryland, was a
Jesuit until the suppression in 1773.
Keywords: God, word of;
628. BOONE, JOHN. (MD; Cath.; 1735-1795; in MD 1765-1770, 1784-1795)
“[On worship in spirit and truth.]” [1763] 20pp. [Acc. No. 99]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Venit hora et nunc est, quando vere adoratores adorabant Patrem in
Spiritu et Veritate: Nam et Pater tales quaerit qui adorent eum. Spiritus est Deus: et
eos qui adorant eum, in Spiritu et Veritate oportet adorare. Joan. 4. v.23 & 24. The
hour comes and now it is, when the true Adorers shall adore the Father in Spirit
and Truth: for such does the Father seek to adore him. God is a spirit: & they who
adore him, must adore in Spirit and truth.”
Commentary: A note at the end reads “2. Exhortations to the Nuns upon this
subject during lent An. 1763.” Boone, a native of Maryland, was a Jesuit until the
suppression in 1773.
Keywords: God, love of; God, adoration of; Lent; Nuns, exhortations to;
629. [BUCHAN, ROBERT]. (VA; Epis.; lic. for VA 1772; in VA through 1804)
“[The Contemplation of Christ.]” [1785] 18pp. [Acc. No. 477]
Repository: Henry H. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Bib. Ref.: “Heb[rew]s. Chap. 12th. Verses 1 & 2. Wherefore seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a Cloud of Witnesses, let us lay aside every Weight
and the Sin, which doth so easily beset us and let us run with Patience the Race set
before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Minister of our Faith, who for the Joy
that was set before him endured the Cross despising the Shame.”
Commentary: The sermon is located in the Brock Collection of Virginiana, Box 120.
The sermon is imperfect. The sermon proper concludes on page 17, but the bottom
half of that page is missing. Page 18 bears the notation that this work is a “Sermon
by Rev. Mr. Buchan of Stafford Co. Successor to the Rev John Moncure.” There is an
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