Love to Christ a necessary qualification in a Gospel minister. A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. William Vinal, to the pastoral charge of the First Congregational Church of Christ in Newport on Rhode-Island, October 29. 1746. With some enlargement and correction by Joseph Fish, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Stonington. With the charge by the Rev. S. Checkley: and the right hand of fellowship by the Rev. Mr. J. Cotton. [Three lines from Jeremiah]

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1747