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St Paul’s & Xt Ch, [Baltimore, April] 3, [180]9.” Page 34 is inside the front cover. The
front cover is ragged at the bottom, but no text is lost. The last page of the sermon
contains a list of baptisms to be recorded in the parish register.
Keywords: ritual, religious; Catholic Church, criticism of; Communion, Holy;
judgment, last; worldliness;
187. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“For Easter.” [1792] 1 + 30 + 1 pp. [Acc. No. 1889]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: Acts, Ch 2, V 32. “This Jesus hath God raised up; whereof we all are
witnesses.”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read “Fin[ished] Ap’l 7, 1792,” and “Preached in
St Paul’s, Balto. Ap. 8, [17]92. Xt Ch & St Paul’s, [Baltimore] Mar 24, [17]99. [The
same] Apl. 6, [18]06.” Page 30, the conclusion of the sermon, is written inside the
front cover and contains a list of baptisms to be recorded in the parish register.
Keywords: Christ, death of; crucifixion; resurrection; Christ, resurrection of;
Apostles;
188. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“No. 3 For Easter.” [1793] 1 + 30 + 1 blank pp. [Acc. No. 1939]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: 1 Cor: Ch 15, V 20. “But now is Christ risen from ye dead, & become the
first fruits of them that slept.”
Commentary: Notes on the cover read Scr[ipsit] Mar 28, 1793,” and “Preached in
St Paul’s, Balt A M, Mar 31, [17]93. at Elk-ridge, [Christ Church, Anne Arundel,
now Howard, County] Ap. 1, [17]93. in St Paul’s, & Xt Ch, [Baltimore] Ap. 13, 1800.
[St. Paul’s and Christ Church, Baltimore] Mar 29, [180]7.” Page 30 is written inside
the front cover of the sermon. This Easter sermon ends with an exhortation to
partake of communion. Bend’s former insistence on physical resurrection appears
somewhat modified in this sermon, which speaks of mystery and the spiritual body.
This seems to be the first of Bend’s sermons to contain a disparagement of the role
of reason in religion.
Keywords: resurrection; faith; reason, role of;
189. BEND, JOSEPH GROVE JOHN. (MD; Epis.; 1762-1812; ord. 1787)
“For Easter.” [1794] 1 + 1 blank + 29 + 1pp. [Acc. No. 1986]
Repository: F. Garner Ranney Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD
Bib. Ref.: Acts, Ch 10, V 34. “Him God raised up, the third day, & showed him
openly; not unto all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God; even to
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