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The Wall and the Garden : Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1670-1775

The election day sermon in colonial New England was an annual, formal address by a minister of the gospel to the newly assembled legislature of the colony. The tradition began in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634, and it continued, in Boston, for 250 y.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plumstead, A. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1968.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:The election day sermon in colonial New England was an annual, formal address by a minister of the gospel to the newly assembled legislature of the colony. The tradition began in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634, and it continued, in Boston, for 250 y.
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9780816664078