THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPHING OVER DEATH THROUGH CHRIST. A SERMON PREACHED NOVEMBER 10, 1765, AT THE SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, IN BOSTON; UPON A MOURNFUL OCCASION. PUBLISHED WITH SOME ENLARGEMENTS.
Boston: N. E. Printed by Kneeland and Adams, in Milk-Street, for Samuel Webb, in Corn-Hill, 1765. 45, [1 blank], with the half title but lacking the final blank. Stitched and untrimmed. Title enclosed by mourning border and death's-head. Untrimmed. Scattered spotting, some blank edge wear. Good plus.
The half title: "Mr. Checkley's Sermon on Hebrews II. 14. 15. Upon a sorrowful Occasion." The occasion was, we learn in a footnote on page 25, the death of "Mrs. Mary Gallop, Widow, aged 37 Years." An unusually pious woman, she kept a journal from which Checkley quotes liberally.
"Erroneously attributed in some sources to Samuel Checkley, Sr. (1696-1769)" [ESTC]. A second edition issued in 1766.
FIRST EDITION. Evans 9926. ESTC W30351. Item #42064
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