Directions with Regard to the Improvement of Temporal Blessings. a Thanksgiving Sermon, Delivered to the First Society in New-london, December 2d, ... A.m. [one Line from the Inspired Preacher].

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Half-title: Mr. Patten's thanksgiving discourse. Advertised as "just published" in the Connecticut gazette and the universal intelligencer, New London, Jan. 28, 1785. Dated 1784 by Evans.

New-London [Conn.] : Printed by T. Green, [1785]. 22, [2] p. ; 8°