1785 CHARLES CHAUNCY. On the Fall and Sinfulness of Man - Great Awakening - Whitefield Supporter / Opponent Methodist

1785 CHARLES CHAUNCY. On the Fall and Sinfulness of Man - Great Awakening - Whitefield Supporter / Opponent MethodistA very scarce work. Charles Chauncy 1705] graduated at Harvard in 1721 and immediately became associate to the famed Thomas Foxcroft (1697 1769) in the pastorate of the First Church of Boston. At the time of the "Great Awakening" under Edwards and Whitefield, Chauncy was initially a supporter and then felt compelled to condemn the "Whitefieldian emotional extravagance." Also in concern regarding the revival, he authored Seasonable Thoughts on the

A man who no doubt meant well attempted to preach in a tent & we went to hear him but in the stench & heat & noise of the place it was worse than no words

Isaac Sturtevant

so this letter written in the run up to the Society's development and in some ways

The text is exceptionally crisp

What a wonderful little piece of history

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Bishop of Africa"

Twenty-Five Narratives of a Religious awakening in a School in Pomerania

and former chaplain to the Revolutionary troops

A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln

Bark Pursuit

Original poem