The Great Importance of Speaking in the Most Intelligible Manner in the Christian Church. A sermon preached at the installation of the Rev. Nathaniel Sherman, over the Church of Christ in Mount-Carmel, New-Haven, May, 18th, 1768
New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1768. Very Good-. Item #25796
New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1768]. First Edition. Small octavo (18cm.); disbound; 44pp. (A-E4 F2); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Stitching perished leaving most signatures loose but present, brief staining to bottom spine-edge corner, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.
Detailed lecture on the requirements of the minister in speaking intelligibly to his congregation, for example "By using great care in defining and explaining out words, where there is any danger of a misunderstanding" (p. 13). Daggett also warns against "speaking in an unknown tongue, or in ambiguous, doubtful terms," as it is a "gross affront to common sense, and a manifest imposition upon those whom we pretend to teach" (p. 21).
ESTC W12522; EVANS 10873; TRUMBULL 536.
Price: $450.00