A BRIEF DISCOURSE AT THE ORDINATION OF A DEACON.
Boston: Printed by B. Green, for D. Henchman, and J. Phillips, and Sold at their Shops, 1731. [2]. 20, [2 blanks] pp, as issued. Disbound, last several leaves with some foxing. Good+.
Reverend Webb, Pastor of a Church of Christ in Boston, explains what it takes to be a good Deacon. "The Deacons must be GRAVE [italics in original], i.e. they must be of a seemly, modest, and gracious Carriage... They must not say one thing to one Man, and the contrary to another... They must not be given to much Wine."
An errata note appears at the bottom of page 20. The Discourse, though published in 1731, is dated in type, March, 22. 1723,4.
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