Sermons, American -- 18th century

by Charles Backus, A.M., pastor of the church in Somers. Half-title: Mr. Backus's fast sermon. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

being the day of general election by David Parsons, A.M., pastor of a church in Amherst. Half title: Mr. Parsons's election sermon, May 28, 1788. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ F⁴ (-F4).

by Samuel Wales, D.D. professor of divinity at Yale-College. [Ten lines of quotations]. Half-title: Doctor Wales's election sermon, MDCCLXXXV. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ [E]⁴ (E4 blank).

by Josiah Bridge, A.M., Pastor of the church in East-Sudbury. Half-title: Mr. Bridge's election sermon, May 27, 1789. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴ (last leaf blank). On verso of title-page, within head and tail piece: "N.B. Several passages, omitted for the sake of brevity, in the delivery of the ensuing discourse, are inserted in the publication." Engraved head- and tail-pieces.

The anniversary of the commencement of the war between Great-Britain and America, which opened in a most tragical scene, in that town, on the nineteenth of April, 1775. By Phillips Payson, A.M. Pastor of the church in Chelsea. ; [Two lines in Latin from Virgil]. Half-title: Mr. Payson's sermon, delivered April nineteenth, 1782. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: half-title page missing; appears to have been trimmed to 18 cm.

By Zabdiel Adams, A.M. Pastor of the Church in Lunenburg. ; [One line from Kings]. Half-title: Mr. Adams's sermon preached at Lexington, nineteenth of April, 1783. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ (E4 verso blank). Includes appendix, pages 36-39. FAU Libraries' copy trimmed along top and bottom edges to 19 cm; side stiched with brown cord.

Half-title: Mr. Tappan's discourse on the peace. Song of praise to God from United America. "A hymn, composed for, and sung on the occasion--and now published by desire--entitled, A song of praise to God from United America."--Page 19. Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ C² (C2 verso blank). FAU Library's copy appears to have been trimmed to 18 cm. Bound in contemporary binding with marbled paper covers and marbled end-papers, gold stamping on spine.

By Nathaniel Whitaker, D.D. ; Delivered at the tabernacle in Salem, May 1783. ; [Three lines from Kings]. Half-title: Dr. Whitaker's discourse on the reward of Toryism. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴. Reprinted, Salem, 1811, with another sermon by the author (originally published 1777) in 1 vol., under title: An antidote against and the reward of Toryism. Being two sermons, preached ... one at the commencement and the other at the close of the Revolutionary War. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 20 cm; side stiched with brown cord.

Discourse containing two sermons preached in Cambridge May 15, 1783. By Charles Turner, V.D.M. ; Published, at the desire of gentlemen of the university, and of the First Religious Society, in Cambridge.Half-title: Mr. Turner's discourse on giving glory to God. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E² (E2 verso blank). FAU Library's copy appears to have been trimmed to 20 cm.; side stiched with brown cord. Inscribed: Hon. [...] Nathan Cushing presented by the author.

By William Patten, A.M. [One line from The inspired preacher]. Half-title: Mr. Patten's thanksgiving discourse. Thanksgiving sermon, delivered to the First Society in New-London, December 2d, 1784. Advertised as "just published" in the Connecticut gazette and the universal intelligencer, New London, Jan. 28, 1785. Dated 1784 by Evans. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (C4 blank). Engraved tail-piece. FAU Library's copy appears to have been trimmed to 21 cm.