Nehemiah Walter
Nehemiah Walter | |
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| Born | December 1663 |
| Died | 17 September 1750 (aged 86–87) |
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| Occupation | Minister |
| Children | Nathaniel Walter, Hannah Trowbridge |
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Nehemiah Walter (December 1663 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – 17 September 1750 in Roxbury, Boston, British Colonial America) was a clergyman. He came with his father, Thomas, to the American colonies in 1679, settling in the Boston area. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684. After living for a time in Nova Scotia, became colleague to John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He was minister of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 17 October 1688 until his death.
Walter married a daughter of Increase Mather. He published The body of death anatomized: A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin (Boston, 1707);[1] Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven (1726); and a posthumous volume of Sermons on Isaiah LV (1755).[2]
References
- ^ Walter, Nehemiah (October 12, 2009). The body of death anatomized. A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin; delivered at the lecture in Boston. 12 d. 7 m. 1706. / By Nehemiah Walter, Pastor of the church in Roxbury. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin].
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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