RELIGION IS THE LIFE OF GOD'S PEOPLE: A SERMON PREACH'D AT BOSTON, IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHIRLEY, ESQ; GOVERNOUR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN AND OVER HIS MAJESTY'S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW-ENGLAND; AND THE HONOURABLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL, AND THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE PROVINCE AFORESAID, MAY 25TH. 1743. BEING THE DAY FOR THE ELECTION OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL

Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, Printers to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1743. [4], 43, [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Half title and final leaf foxed. Good+. Two leaves are untrimmed in order to preserve contemporary relevant marginalia.

Eels deplores the prevalence of false religions. "Some by dividing the inhabited World into thirty Parts find that nineteen of them are possessed by Heathens," some of them "the Religion of the Mahometans." The Jews, "once the only Covenant People of God ... are become a Proverb of Reproach."
One of the most important functions of Rulers is to nurture the practice of "true Christian religion." In the midst of the Great Awakening, Eells warns against "all the Noise & Stir, the strange Agitations and Motions, Screaming and Fainting, and Disorders."
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