Two Discourses on the Atonement
by Moses Stuart
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ISBN13: 9780217652650
Paperback|9780217652650
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: D. D., the first rector of this church. The appropriate passage of scripture from which the preacher addressed a numerous audience on this interesting occasion was, For mine house shall be called An house of prayer for all people. Isaiah Ivi. 7. Dr. Cutler was educated at Harvard college, Cambridge, and received the honours of that university in 1701. In 1710, he received Congregational ordination at Stratford, Connecticut, where he continued in high estimation as a minister and a scholar, till 1719, when he was appointed rector of the college in New Haven, now Yale college. This, says a dissenting divine, was an auspicious event to that institution, for he was a man of profound learning, and presided with dignity, usefulness, and general approbation. He was, says the same writer, the first scholar, and, according to the testimony of another, the most celebrated preacher, in the colony. In 1722, Mr. Cutler, with several of the tutors and neighbouring clergy, men eminent for their talents and influence, having, after careful inquiry and mature deliberation, been led to suspect, not only the regularity, but even the lawfulness and validity of Congregational ordination, conformed to the Church of England. He accordingly resigned the rectorship of the college, and came to Boston, whence, in companywith Mr. Johnson and Mr. Brown, two of thd conformists, he embarked for England on the 5th of November. On their arrival in London, they were received with all possible kindness by Dr. Robinson, the bishop of London, and by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; and it was readily agreed that Mr. Cutler should be sent to the new church in Boston. Mr. Cutler was ordained first deacon, and then priest, in March, 1723, by Dr. Green, bishop of Norwich. On visiting...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217652650 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217652654 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 264 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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