Author: Griffin, Edward Dorr. (1770-1837).
Title: A Sermon, Preached October 20, 1813, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, / at the Dedication of the Meeting House, Recently Erected for the Use of the Calvinistic Congregational Society in That Town. By Edward D. Griffin, D.D. , Pastor of Park Street Church, Boston. Published at His Request.
Description: Boston: Printed by Nathaniel Willis, No. 76, State Street, 1813. 1813. - Octavo, softcover. Printed self-wraps bound with tan cord through 3 holes in the left margins of the leaves. Pages [i]-35. The pages are bumped with their front & bottom edges chipped. The title page is darkened with a piece out of its top corner. There is occasional foxing & staining, including light staining to the bottom corners of the pages. Good.

First edition.

Edward Dorr Griffin was a Christian minister and American educator, who served as President of Williams College from 1821 to 1836. He was disliked in many quarters for his strict Calvinistic views. In 1811, he became the first pastor of Park Street Church in Boston where he preached a prominent series of sermons [of which this is one] opposing the New Divinity. This system of Christian theology, which came to the fore in New England in the later eighteenth century, had its roots in the published and unpublished writings of Jonathan Edwards. It was also known as the "Edwardean Divinity" and as "Hopkinsianism", after Samuel Hopkins. It modified several tenets of Calvinism, most notably the notion of free will and original sin, the nature of the atonement of Jesus, and his righteousness being imputed to believers.

Scarce. Good .

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