Stuart, Moses. [ELECTION SERMON] A Sermon delivered before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Esq., Governor, His Honor Thomas L Winthrop, Lieutenant Governor, The Hon. Council, the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. May 30, 1827, being the Day of the General Election. Boston: True and Green, State Printers, 1827. First Edition. [11614]
Newly sewn into an acid-free wrapper, small institutional stamp on tp, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, 42 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is 2 Corinthians 3:17, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Stuart expounds What true liberty is, and that a Christian spirit will promote and secure true liberty. He says that Christians are the only people who can promote and secure true liberty, and admonishes the governor and other representatives of the people to do all they can to set an example of good Christian morals, and to promote them among the populace.
Moses Stuart (1780-1852), born at Wilton, Connecticut. Stuart graduated with highest honors from Yale College in 1799, afterwards teaching at several posts, including as Tutor at Yale. He studied theology under Dr. Dwight and was ordained pastor of the Church in New Haven in 1806. From 1810 to 1848 he was Professor of Sacred Literature at Andover.
“Mr. (for he refused the title of Dr.) Stuart’s life was one of incessant labor, devoted chiefly to Biblical literature. In this he led the way in his own country with most happy results. His own contributions to sacred learning are very valuable; but perhaps he did even more by the impulse he gave to Biblical study, and the sound principles of Biblical exegesis which he instilled into the minds of his younger brethren, especially in America, than by the works which he himself published.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
