The Rulers Highest Dignity, and the People's Truest Glory. A Sermon Preach'd in the Audience of His Excellency the Governour, the Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, May 30th. 1739. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province

Boston: S. Kneeland, 1739. Very Good. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1739. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers, upper cover titled in calligraphic manuscript; [2],58,[2]pp. ([A]-H4, lacking half title page, else collated complete with final blank). Moderate foxing and faint dampstains to textblock, brief contemporary manuscript division equations scribbled on verso of final leaf, else Very Good and sound.

Election day sermon providing Peter Clark's four major requirements for a just government: loyalty to God, "Observance of positive Institutions," keeping up "Family Religion," and, most importantly, "the Observance of Spiritual Evangelical Duties."

EVANS 4350; SABIN 13349.