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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
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To the READER.
These Sermons were Preached at the Lecture in Boston. Having been informed that many who live in the Country, as well as in this Town, have desired they might be published, and one who took in Short hand what I delivered, having showed me his transcribed Copy, I have perused it, and consented to its being sent to the Press. And I have the rather done so, because these are the last Lecture Sermons Preached, or intended to be Preached by me. The other work incumbent on me, and the advances of Age which have now overtaken me, and the ill treatment which I have had from those from whom I had reason to have expected better, have discourage• me from being any more concerned on such Occasions.
THese Sermons were Preached at the Lecture in Boston. Having been informed that many who live in the Country, as well as in this Town, have desired they might be published, and one who took in Short hand what I delivered, having shewed me his transcribed Copy, I have perused it, and consented to its being sent to the Press. And I have the rather done so, because these are the last Lecture Sermons Preached, or intended to be Preached by me. The other work incumbent on me, and the advances of Age which have now overtaken me, and the ill treatment which I have had from those from whom I had reason to have expected better, have discourage• me from being any more concerned on such Occasions.