Note 1320 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

The sermon was printed in Philad., and reprinted in London in 1756. (Sabin, v. 18,763; Hildeburn, i. no. 1,409; Brinley, i. 218.) There are other symptoms of the time in another sermon of the same preacher, Oct. 28, 1756. (Sabin, v. 18,757.) Cf. Tyler, Amer. Literature, ii. p. 242; and W. H. Foote’s Sketches of Virginia (Phil., 1850), pp. 157, 284. See further on Davies (who was later president of Princeton College) and his relations to current events in Sprague’s Annals, iii.; John H. Rice’s memoir of him in the Lit. and Evangelical Mag.; Albert Barnes’ “Life and Times of Davies,” prefixed to Davies’ Works (N. Y., 1851); and David Bostwick’s memoir of him accompanying Davies’ fulsome Sermon on the Death of George II. (Boston, 1761).