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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Jonathan Mayhew. Seven Sermons . . . Preached at a Lecture in the West Meeting-House in Boston. [4], 157, [2] pages including publisher's ad leaf. 8vo, disbound; minimal wear to contents ; early owner's inscription and inked defunct library stamp on title page. Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1749
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First edition. These sermons "established him as one of the leading critics of the Calvinist orthodoxy of his day" and earned him an honorary degree at the University of Aberdeen, but were generally met with "a cold, stony silence" by his fellow Boston clergymen. See Oakes, Conservative Revolutionaries, pages 15-17. Evans 6365; Sabin 47150.

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