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Edward Hitchcock sermon no. 145, "Hungering After Righteousness," 1822 November
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Creator: Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
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1822-11
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1 volume (20 pages)
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Edward Hitchcock's sermon on supreme desire, based on Mathew [sic] 5:6 ("Blessed are they which do hunger & thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"). Hitchcock noted that the "constitution of man is such that he must feel ardent desires prompting him to diligent exertion after some object." These objects fall into two general categories. Things of the world become the object of supreme desire by accident; "our hearts by nature have little choice in the particular worldly object on which to fasten." One may choose, however, to desire "the things of religion," to hunger and thirst for righteousness or holiness. These two categories are mutually exclusive. "A supreme love for anything worldly & a love to religion can by no means inhabit the same bosom." Hitchcock noted that "to hunger & thirst after righteousness then is to have an ardent desire to resemble God. To such desire a blessing is promised." He then proceeded to enumerated firstly "what is implied in hungering & thirsting after righteousness" and secondly "in what the blessedness consists." Hitchcock noted on the first page the dates and places where he had delivered this sermon between 1822 and 1846 as well as Bible chapters and hymns related to the sermon.
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English
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