GOD IS TO BE PRAISED FOR THE GLORY OF HIS MAJESTY, AND FOR HIS MIGHTY WORKS. A SERMON DELIVERED AT NORTH-HAVEN, DECEMBER 11, 1783, THE DAY APPOINTED BY THE UNITED-STATES FOR A GENERAL THANKSGIVING ON ACCOUNT OF THE PEACE CONCLUDED WITH GREAT-BRITAIN
New Haven, Connecticut: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1784. Stated Second Edition. Disbound. Stitched pamphlet, 6.5 in. x 4.2 in., pp. 28. Removed from larger publication, with remnants of original spine. Chip to upper corner of front page. Bottom edge cut short, with the loss of the final line of text on several pages. Clear text. Light age-toning.
Title page reads "MDCCLXXIII", but this is reference to the date of the speech. Actual publication date is 1784. Good. Item #100838
Benjamin Trumbull (1735 – 1820) was an early American historian and preacher. He began as a pastor on December 24, 1760, at the Congregational Church in New Haven and served for sixty years, his preaching being interrupted only by the Revolution, in which he served both as a volunteer and as chaplain for the Wadsworth's Brigade under James Wadsworth.
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