A sermon, preached before His Excellency John Hancock, Esq. governour; the Honourable the Council, and the Honourable the Senate, and House of...

"THE preacher considers it to be the special design of our present meeting in this place (according to common usage, and the laudable example of our pious Ancestors) to seek the divine influence and direction in the important concerns of the dayto express our grateful and devout praises for the inestimable blessings of governmentto implore the divine blessing upon our civil magistrates in the discharge of the duties of their several departmentsand to meditate on such suggestions from the oracles of truth, as may be pertinent to such an occasion."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.