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1761100715Pamphlet 8vo half title 32 pp. Removed dbd normal aging and toning; otherwise very good. Bridge 1721-1775 was the pastor of the church in Framingham. This is a scarce tract and Shipton & Mooney list this title only to him. Stone 1737-1822 also seems to be from Framingham but may have spent some time in Salem. Shipton & Mooney 8806 Thomas and John Fleet unknown books
1767100637Pamphlet 8vo with half title 60 pp. Unbound untrimmed stitched as issued some aging and staining some chips small tears and folds at the corners and edges last leaf with tears and wrinkles partially separated and with the loss of a few words of text. This pamphlet warns the crown about abuse of power and sets the stage for the issues that would frame the American Revolution. Bridge a minister of Chelmsford would denounce the Stamp Act riots in Boston but warned the governor of the dangers of measures that threatened the rights of the people which he felt would also damage the relationship with the Mother Country. Evans 10569. Green and Russell, books
176734249Boston: Green and Russell 1767. 60pp but lacking the half title. Stitched and untrimmed. Title and last several leaves heavily foxed. Else Good. <br/><br/> A fine Sermon delivered soon after the repeal of the Stamp Act and just before enactment of the equally execrated Townshend Acts. Bridge warns that rulers have the duty to promulgate "only such laws as.are fit for the government of rational intelligent moral agents all equal and upon a par antecedent to any political combinations among men;" and not to abuse their God-given trust "by serving the purposes of ambition usurpation and tyranny.But I must not enlarge." <br/> Whatever the form of government all men "have a natural right" to enjoy freedom: "every man protected in his just rights sitting under his own vine and under his own fig tree.and none to make him afraid." Careful to be conciliatory he praises English rule even Parliament "which tho' liable to mistakes has yet been attentive to the good of the nation and kingdom and her colonies and dependencies." He praises God that the "late transactions" did not proceed "to that extremity which many feared and which would have terminated in.the ruin of the colonies." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 10569. Vail N.E. Election Sermons 20. Lapham Newberry Library 73. Green and Russell unknown books