Religious Tracts. Also includes "A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family on the Important Subject of Family Religion" by Philip Doddridge, D. D. Bound in leather. Published by subscription (the subscribers are listed in the back) by O. Newton, Hartford, Connecticut, 1814. Picked it up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for $5.00 at a rummage sale. It gives an insight into a time long gone and the conventional religion of the day pursued by the conventional people of the day. Something that has survived to be this old should be preserved.
Samuel Davies (1723 - 1761)
Presbyterian preacher in colonial British America who defended religious dissent and helped lead the Southern phase of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. Davies was educated at Samuel Blair’s “log college” at Fagg’s Manor, Pa., and was ordained in 1747. His work during the Great Awakening centred at Hanover, Va.; in Virginia, where Presbyterians were persecuted as Nonconformists by the established church leaders, he became a chief defender of the Dissenters. He argued their cause before the Virginia general court and enlisted the support of prominent English and Scottish Dissenters. The government’s preoccupations after the outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754), however, diminished concern over Davies, especially when his war sermons helped rouse Virginians to defend the frontier.Davies further enhanced his reputation as the outstanding preacher of his day by sermons given in England and Scotland during a trip with the evangelist Gilbert Tennent. Soon after his return Davies became the first moderator of the first presbytery of Virginia, Hanover, in 1755. On the same trip Davies raised funds in England for the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and was its fourth president from 1759 until his death.
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