Rulers are a terror, not to good, but evil-workers. A sermon preached before His Excellency Samuel Shute Esq; His Majesty's Council, and the Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on May 25. 1720

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

May 25, 1720

GUSN

GUSN-366406

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Tracts, treatises, and sermons
Tracts, treatises, and sermons, 1690-1760
Rulers are a terror, not to good, but evil-workers. A sermon preached before His Excellency Samuel Shute Esq; His Majesty's Council, and the Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on May 25. 1720
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Ephemera collection
- Tracts, treatises, and sermons
  - Tracts, treatises, and sermons, 1690-1760
    - A short history of a long travel from Babylon to Bethel, written the 9th month, 1691, by Stephen Crisp
    - Rulers are a terror, not to good, but evil-workers. A sermon preached before His Excellency Samuel Shute Esq; His Majesty's Council, and the Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on May 25. 1720 (current record)
    - A sermon at the publick lecture in Boston Jan. viii. 1729, 30. Upon the death of the Honourable Samuel Sewall, Esq., by Thomas Prince
    - The testimony and advice of an Assembly of Pastors of Churches in New-England, at a meeting in Boston July 7, 1743
    - The duty of ministers to preach doctrines of practice, preach'd at Norton, January 3d, 1753, at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Joseph Palmer, by John Mellen
    - The Gospel Hidden to Them that are Lost. Being the Substance of Two Sermons, Preached at Concord, by Daniel Bliss, 1755
    - The Child's plain Path-way to Eternal Life, or, A Heavenly Messenger, Boston, Mass., circa 1759

Description

1 sermon (20 pages); 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches

Details

Descriptive Terms

sermons
elections
councils
sermons

Physical Descrption

1 sermon (20 pages); 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.19.01.002

Places

New England (United States) [general region]
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts) [bay]

Record Details

Originator

Stone, Nathanael, 1667-1755 (Author)
Green, B. (Printer)

Material Type

sermons

Other People

Stone, Nathanael, 1667-1755
Shute, Samuel, 1662-1742

Description Level

Item

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