Advice of a father to a son engaging in the work of the evangelical ministry : a sermon preach'd at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Joseph Emerson, to the work of the ministry, and pastoral office over the Second Church of Christ in Groton, in the province of the Massachusett's-Bay. N.E. on Wednesday, Feb. 25th. 1746,7. By his father, Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Malden. [Three lines from Chronicles].