POLITICAL RULERS AUTHORIZ'D AND INFLUENC'D BY GOD OUR SAVIOUR, TO DECREE AND EXECUTE JUSTICE: A SERMON PREACHED AT BOSTON: IN THE AUDIENCE OF HIS HONOUR SPENCER PHIPS, ESQ; COMMANDER IN CHIEF; THE HONOURABLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL, AND THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW-ENGLAND, ON MAY 30TH. 1750. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL FOR THE SAID PROVINCE.
Boston: Draper, 1750. [2], 59, [1 blank] pp. Lacking the half title, else Very Good in modern marbled boards and quarter morocco, with gilt-lettered spine title.
Phillips, whose children founded Phillips Andover Academy, supports a government under the English King, who exercises power in accordance with the constitution and the rule of law. He gives thanks "that our civil Liberties, as granted by the Royal Charter, are still continued to us...Kings and others in subordination to them are not exalted, meerly, that so they might be in a State of Superiority over their Fellow-Men: No, they are to Rule: but then their manner of Rule must be suited to the Ends of civil Society, and for the promoting of the public Good."
He urges public support of the ministry, the nurturing of Harvard College, and warns that an educated citizenry is essential for good government.
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