A Discourse on Rev. XV. 3d, 4th, Occasioned by the Earthquakes in November, 1755: Delivered in the West-Meeting-House, Boston, Thursday, December 18, ... Parts, With an Introduction
Excerpt from A Discourse on Rev. XV. 3d, 4th, Occasioned by the Earthquakes in November, 1755
And now we are all'embled together, out of the common, ?ated courfe, to contemplate, and religi oully to improve, theic mighty and wonderful works of God, I know of no pallage of fcripture, fitter for the hafis of a difcourfe upon fuch an occafion, than that which was juil now read to you. This will na turally lead us from particular inflances and manifef tations of God's power, to a more enlarged contem plation of his mighty deeds; and the glory and ma jefiy of' t iat kingdom, which ruleth over all.
Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 – July 9, 1766) was a noted American minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts. He coined the phrase "No taxation without representation."