Nehemiah Walter

Nehemiah Walter
Nehemiah Walter
Born	December 1663 ; Youghal
Died	17 September 1750 (aged 86–87)
Alma mater	Harvard University ;

Nehemiah Walter (born December 1663, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – died 17 September 1750, 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]".
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[1] 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]".

[2] 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. Missing or empty |title= (help)