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in St Paul’s, B[altimore], April 26, 1795. [St. Paul’s] & Xt Ch [,Baltimore], July 1,
1804. Xt ch & St Paul’s, May 31, [18]12.” The front cover is torn diagonally into two
pieces, but the text is complete. Some passages were bracketed by Bend, presumably
for omission from a subsequent preaching.
Keywords: salvation; sin, deliverance from; obedience, necessity of; Judaism, defects
of; Christ, imitation of;
133. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“Xtianity a spring of spiritual joy.” [1800] 1 + 30 + 1 blank pp. [Acc. No. 2182]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: St. Luke, Ch 2, V 10: “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Fi[nished] Jany. 16, 1800,” and “Preached in
St Paul’s & Xt Church, [Baltimore,] Jany. 19, 1800. Xt Ch & St Paul’s, [Baltimore,]
Decr. 27, [180]7.” Page 30 is written inside the front cover of the sermon.
Keywords: Messiah, prophecies concerning; prophecies concerning the Messiah;
gospel, purposes of the;
134. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“Xtianity vindicated from ye [the] charge, yt [that] it does not increase, but
diminish human happiness.” [1794] 1 + 1 blank + 29 + 1 blank pp. [Acc. No. 1959]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: St Matt: Ch 10, V 34. “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I
came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Scr[ipsit] Sep. 19, [17]93,” and “Preached in
St Paul’s, B[altimore] A M, Mar 23, 1794.” The sermon is directed against deists and
other critics of Christianity. It shows Bend turning away from his earlier reliance
on “reason,” which he discounts in two passages. In his biblical quotation, Bend
incorrectly wrote “peace upon earth” instead of “peace on earth,” but he later lined
through the “up” in “upon.”
Keywords: Deism, denunciation of; education, Christian; religious wars; wars,
religious; pagans, beliefs of;
135. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“About Christmas Religion & Joy compatible.” [1796] 1 + 30 + 1 blank pp. [Acc. No.
2061]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: Acts 16, V34. “And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat
before ’em, & rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”
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