THE EXCELLENCY OF THE GOSPEL - MESSAGE; WITH THE DUTY AND DIGNITY OF THE MESSENGERS OF CHRIST. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE EAST PRECINCT IN YARMOUTH, JUNE 22. 1727. AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND JOSIAH DENNIS, M.A.

Boston: Printed for D. Henchman, 1727. [4], 28 pp, with the half title [which is loose]. Light rubberstamp at blank portion of half title and title page [intrusion onto border]. Disbound, Good+.

Wigglesworth opposed unbridled evangelism, the Great Awakening, and Reverend Whitefield. "If Ministers are God's Messengers [as we have heard] then let them wait for those Divine Orders that make them so. It becomes them not presumptuously to invade the sacred Office, and run before the Lord sends them. They must obey the Call of Providence, and stay until they be duly qualified, and regularly inducted and authorized."
Evans 2976. ESTC W32191.