Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sermon Delivered at Plymouth, December 21st, 1804: The Anniversary of the Landing of Our Fathers in December, 1620
T1113 religious character of our fathers, the principles and motives, by which they were ac tuated in the hazardous enterprize of establish ing themselves and posterity in this country, par ticularly merit attention and celebration. Their settlement here originatedmot in views of wealth, ambition, or conquest It was not undertaken from a desire to possess extensive territory to become the founders of a new Empire nor to secure temporal power and glory for their chil dren though considerations of this kind, would have entitled them to a name among the heroes and great men of the earth. They sought anoth er and a better country. Their hearts and treas ures were in Hennen.
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