A SERMON PREACHED IN THE AUDIENCE OF HIS HONOUR SPENCER PHIPS, ESQ; LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND 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, MAY 26TH. 1756. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL FOR THE SAID PROVINCE.
Boston, New-England: Printed by Green and Russell, 1756. 43, [1 blank] pp, with the half title as issued. Disbound with occasional light foxing, else Very Good.
Cooper spent his career at the Brattle Square Church in Boston. He "was active in the cause of American freedom and intimately associated with its leaders...Before and during the Revolution he was a constant contributor to the newspapers and an orator on the popular side" [DAB].
In this election sermon Cooper, emphasizing the Colonies' contribution to the ongoing
War against France, discourses at length on Moses, who led the Jews out of a hard and unjust bondage. Cooper emphasizes Moses' qualities as a just ruler rather than a liberator.
Despite Cooper's eminence, "his only literary output consists of a small number of sermons and miscellaneous pamphlets..." [Id.]
Evans 7642. ESTC W15653. Item #41971
Price: $650.00