Item #9512 A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN BRATTLE-STREET, BOSTON, AND TO THE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION IN CHARLESTOWN, ON APRIL 5. 1798. BEING THE DAY OF THE ANNUAL FAST IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. BY...HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN HARVARD COLLEGE. David Tappan.
A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN BRATTLE-STREET, BOSTON, AND TO THE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION IN CHARLESTOWN, ON APRIL 5. 1798. BEING THE DAY OF THE ANNUAL FAST IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. BY...HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN HARVARD COLLEGE.

A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN BRATTLE-STREET, BOSTON, AND TO THE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION IN CHARLESTOWN, ON APRIL 5. 1798. BEING THE DAY OF THE ANNUAL FAST IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. BY...HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN HARVARD COLLEGE.

Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. Half title, 31pp, wide margins, light dustsoil and scattered light foxing. Bound in later cloth [old institutional gum label and bookplate]. Very Good.

Tappan argues the necessity of religion as the foundation of a decent society. "If all sense of religion were erased from the human mind, no tie would be left to bind men to regular behavior in society, except the fear of legal penalties or of present inconveniencies; and the terror of these would be unspeakably abated."
The "influence of religion" in America is responsible for individuals' "personal virtue," "personal sobriety and diligence," and our "free constitution, a mild and liberal administration of civil government."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 34627. ESTC W38057. Item #9512

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