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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 2 Browse Search
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r his marriage from this text: Cant. i. 5: I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. Mr. Turell lost the children he had by his first wife. His second wife was Miss Lucy Dudley, by whom he had no children; and his third wife was Mrs. Devenport. He died childless. On the occasion of his publishment to Mrs. Devenport, Sept. 28, 1735, he preached from Cant. III. 3: Saw ye him (her) whom my soul loveth? On the Sabbath after his marriage, he preached from Cant. v. 16: He (she) is aMrs. Devenport, Sept. 28, 1735, he preached from Cant. III. 3: Saw ye him (her) whom my soul loveth? On the Sabbath after his marriage, he preached from Cant. v. 16: He (she) is altogether lovely. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. Mr. Turell was not more fond of good company, good wine, and good dinners, than most people of his day; and to them it did not seem strange that he should preach from Cant. v. 1: Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. Among the preachers of that time, there was some rivalship of ingenuity in extracting godly morals and even Christian doctrines from Solomon's epithalamium. It is true that