Item #35910 A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN HANCOCK, ESQ. GOVERNOUR; HIS HONOR SAMUEL ADAMS, ESQ. LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOUR; THE HONOURABLE THE COUNCIL, SENATE, AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 26, 1790. BEING THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION. Daniel Foster.

A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN HANCOCK, ESQ. GOVERNOUR; HIS HONOR SAMUEL ADAMS, ESQ. LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOUR; THE HONOURABLE THE COUNCIL, SENATE, AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 26, 1790. BEING THE DAY OF GENERAL ELECTION.

Boston: Thomas Adams, 1790. 35, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. Disbound with some loosening, scattered light foxing. Good+.

The duty of "civil government is to secure the happiness of the whole community," and of rulers "to preserve and secure to the people, their liberties and properties...We plead for a government of laws, not of men." Moreover, God has granted the people the right "to choose their own rulers." An attractive articulation of the ideology of the new Republic.
FIRST EDITION. Evans 22506. Sabin 25205. Item #35910

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