Adams, Moses:

A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. LUTHER WRIGHT, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN MEDWAY, JUNE 13, 1798. BY...PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN ACTON. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE CHARGE, BY THE REV. MR. BRIDGE, OF EAST-SUDBURY, AND THE RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP, BY THE REV. PRENTISS, OF MEDFIELD.

Dedham: Mann and Adams, 1798. Disbound. 28pp, minor foxing. Attractive ornamentation at top of page [3]. Very Good. Adams warns Wright that "the spirit of the times creates and promotes much bitterness in society, highly unfavorable to religion." He faces the possibility of "persecution"; mean-spirited people hope American ministers will "meet the same treatment, which has been dealt to the clergy in France." FIRST EDITION. Evans 33265. Not in Jenkins. Item #17799

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