Stephen Burroughs's sermon : delivered in Rutland, on a hay mow, to his auditory, the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[United States] :
[publisher not identified],
Printed to sell, 1800.
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| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 49585. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Caption title: The hay-mow sermon, &c. Burroughs' flight from Pelham occurred in 1784. However, reference made in the sermon to Shays' Rebellion (1786-87) indicates that some, if not all, of the sermon was composed after the event. "The hymn."--pages 7-8. Not in Evans or Bristol. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 pages ; 18 cm. (quarto) |
| Place of Publication: | United States. |