From David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
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39, [1 blank] pp, with the half title [loose and dusted]. Stitched, untrimmed. Light institutional rubberstamp, else Very Good. Tappan recommends "a liberal and patriotick combination for the general good" of the Christian ministry and civil political leaders. He condemns a "set of philosophers and free-thinkers, who boast of their superiour reason and liberality. who have employed all the powers of metaphysical sophistry and licentious ridicule to shake the foundation of religion: and some of them have even denied its political importance and utility, and have proposed in its stead a kind of philosophical or civil morality, as fully competent to the purposes of general order and security." But Tappan emphatically supports separation of Church and State: the civil establishment of religion is an unholy alliance "of political and priestly ambition, aided by equal cunning." He notes with approval, "In America a Catholic Priest is a good citizen, a good character, and a good neighbour; an Episcopalian Minister is of the same description; and this proceeds from there being no law-establishment in America." FIRST EDITION. Evans 24841. Sabin 94366. Seller Inventory # 34800
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Title: A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN...
Publisher: Boston
Publication Date: 1792
Edition: 1st Edition
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