Papers of John Adams, volume 19
I should not have thought of troubling you with the inclosed sermon,1 if it had not been suggested to me by a friend who heard it that it seemed to be formed on the principles which were advanced in your defence of the American Constitutions & to recommend such Checks and Balances in Ecclesiastical as you had thought necessary in civil Government. If in this view of it, or any other it may be acceptable I shall think myself honoured, & am / Sir / with the greatest respect / Your very humble Servant
RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Hon Dr Adams.”
Belknap sent a copy of his homily A Sermon, Preached at the Installation of the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, A.M.: To the Pastoral Care of the Church and Congregation in Charlestown, on the 30th of April, 1789, Boston, 1789, Evans, No. 21673.