Wall and the Garden : Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1670-1775.
Title:
Wall and the Garden : Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1670-1775.
Author:
Plumstead, A.W.
ISBN:
9780816664078
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (399 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY -- ON EDITING THE TEXT -- I: SAMUEL DANFORTH: Errand into the Wilderness 1670 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- II: SAMUEL WILLARD: The Only Sure Way 1682 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- III: COTTON MATHER: The Way to Prosperity 1689 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- IV: SAMUEL DANFORTH: An Exhortation to All 1714 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- V: THOMAS PRINCE: The People of New England 1730 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- VI: JOHN BARNARD: The Throne Established by Righteousness 1734 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- VII: JONATHAN MAYHEW: A Sermon 1754 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- VIII: SAMUEL COOKE: A Sermon 1770 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- IX: SAMUEL LANGDON: Government Corrupted by Vice 1775 -- AN INTRODUCTION -- THE SERMON -- TEXTUAL NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The election day sermon in colonial New England was an annual, formal address by a minister of the gospel to the newly assembled legislature of the colony. The tradition began in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634, and it continued, in Boston, for 250 y.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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