1748 · Boston
by Porter, John
Boston: Rogers and Fowle., 1748. Half title [tear at blank lower margin], 36, [2 bookseller advts.], 2 blanks. Disbound, spotted, Good+. Presentation inscription on half title: "For the Revd Mr. John Angier From your humble servant John Porter."
The sermon was reprinted in Newburyport in 1789. Porter says, "All Men by Nature are stark Blind and grosly Ignorant in the Things of God and Religion; full of Obstinacy and Enmity against God and Godliness; and utterly Unable to do any Thing spiritually Good, or in the least to recommend themselves to God."
Freetown, Massachusetts, was settled by Englishmen in 1659 and is, according to Wikipedia, "one of the oldest communities in the United States."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 6225. ESTC W22387. (Inventory #: 17905)
The sermon was reprinted in Newburyport in 1789. Porter says, "All Men by Nature are stark Blind and grosly Ignorant in the Things of God and Religion; full of Obstinacy and Enmity against God and Godliness; and utterly Unable to do any Thing spiritually Good, or in the least to recommend themselves to God."
Freetown, Massachusetts, was settled by Englishmen in 1659 and is, according to Wikipedia, "one of the oldest communities in the United States."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 6225. ESTC W22387. (Inventory #: 17905)