We're a big fan of the ordination sermon. They provide a uniquely concentrated and intentional statement of the core values and perspectives of the Church in a given time and place. This is even further concentrated in the "charge" at the end, where the most important functions of the Gospel Ministry are laid on the Pastor as primary sacred duties. Both personally and historically interesting reading.
Excellent and very optimistic ordination sermon preached at the installation of Isaac Braman, who would just weeks later marry the ordination preacher's daughter. An optimistic, perhaps amillennial or postmillennial sermon on the glory of the Church.
Text: Luke 14.23. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways, and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Palmer, Stephen. A Sermon, Delivered at Rowley, Second Parish, June 7, 1797. At the Ordination of the Rev. Isaac Braman, to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church and Society in that Town. Dedham. Nathaniel and Benjamin Heaton. 1797. 35pp.
Good +. Textually crisp and clean save some minor scattered foxing. At some point, part of a larger sammelband with associated flotsam to spine. Half title wanting.