The example of Christ, as a guide to ministers & people, considered and inforced in a sermon preach'd at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Edmund Noyes, to the pastoral care of the First Church in Salisbury, in conjunction with the Reverend Mr. Cushing, November 20th 1751
"It is hop'd the gentlemen who were pleas'd to encourage the printing of the following discourse, will excuse it's [sic] being so long delayed, in as much as the spreading of the small-pox in Boston soon after the notes could be sent to the press, and it's [sic] continuance there 'till lately, have prevented it's [sic] being published so seasonably as it would otherwise have been."