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Wm Gordon. A Sermon Preached. 1775 First Edition

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Wm Gordon. A Sermon Preached. 1775 First Edition
<B>William Gordon. </B></I><B><I>A Sermon Preached before the Honorable House of Representatives, On the Day intended for the Choice of Counsellors, Agreeable to the Advice of the Continental Congress.</B></I></B></I> Watertown: Benjamin Edes, 1775.<BR> First edition. Twelvemo. Half title, 29 [3 blank] pages. Ornament at end of page 29. <BR><BR>Unbound, stitched, untrimmed. Paper lightly and evenly toned. Very good. Previous owner's name written on the half-title, "<I>Dan Gould</B></I>", likely a member of the prominent Gould family of Topsfield.<BR><BR>William Gordon was an English-born clergyman who moved to Massachusetts in 1770 and became pastor of the Third Church of Roxbury in 1772. In 1775, he was made chaplain to both houses of the Provincial Congress assembled at Watertown where he delivered this sermon. In it, he likens the Old Testament history of the Jewish people to the then current situation in the North American colonies, "<I>The Jewish establishment, both in church and state, was the ordinance of heaven given in an uncommon manner, and, at the time, the best in the whole world...</B></I>" Gordon chronicled the history of the American Revolution from mid-1775 and, after the war ended in 1783, completed <I>The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America</B></I>, a book that he published after his return to England.<BR><BR>American Independence 168. Evans 14073. Sabin 28010.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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