Excerpt from A Sermon Preached June 12, 1799, Before His Honor Moses Gill, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief: The Honorable the Council, Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the Interment of His Excellency Increase Sumner, Esq., Who Died June 7, 1799, AEt. 53 To afiifi us in improving this melancholy provie dence, is the defign of the following difcourfe. -and how could we more naturally introduce it than by the account of the death. And funeral of samuel, who was long the Chief Magif'trate of [fine], who travelled for many years through the nation' to (life penfe judgment ahd jufiice, who maintained a fair and honorable reputation to the end of life and who, when he died, was attended to the grave by the heads of the tribes of l/'rael with deep and fincere' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.