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The excellency of a public spirit discoursedThe excellency of a publick spirit discoursed
The excellency of a public spirit discoursed: in a sermon, preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 27. 1702. Being the day for election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]The excellency of a publick spirit discoursed: in a sermon, preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the province of the Masachusetts Bay in New England, May 27. 1702. Being the day for election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Nicholas Boone, 1702
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: To the HONOURED Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the HONOURED Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, Now in General Court Assembled.
Much Honoured,
AS it was at your desire that I have Published the Sermon preached on this last Election Day. So that you & others may see that I am not alone in the Advice that has been set before you, Respecting the Recommendation, of the Order of the Gospel, professed & practised in these Churches, as declared in our Platform of Church Discipline, which is that whereby New England has been distinguished from all other Plantations, and that so every word may be Established by two witnesses, I am willing to reinforce it with some passages, which I find in a large Letter sent to the Representatives, in a former General Assembly ▪ by that Reverend man of God Mr. Higginson, who is the most aged Minister of Christ surviving among us.
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