2004-09
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STODDARD, Solomon (1643-1728/9) the American colonial minister who succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather as pastor at Northampton after Mather’s death. Stoddard significantly liberalized church policy while promoting more power for the clergy, decrying drinking and extravagance, and urging the preaching of hellfire and the Judgment. The Reverend Solomon Stoddard was one of the most important puritan religious leaders in the colonial period and was the grandfather of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703- March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. He is known as one of the greatest and most profound American evangelical theologians. His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology and the Puritan heritage. Autograph Manuscript, 16p. 3-3/4”x6”, not dated, but late 17th century, with inked ID “Manuscript sermon of Revd. Solomon Stoddard of North Hampton, the Grandfather of President Edwards.” Fine. Rare.
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