A SEASONABLE CAVEAT AGAINST BELIEVING EVERY SPIRIT: WITH SOME DIRECTIONS FOR TRYING THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD. GIVEN IN TWO PUBLIC LECTURES IN THE HALL OF HARVARD-COLLEGE AT CAMBRIDGE, N. E. APRIL 22 AND 29, 1735
- Boston: Printed for D. Henchman, 1735
Boston: Printed for D. Henchman, 1735. [2], 33, [1- errata and advertisement] pp. Lacking the half title and final blank leaf. Scattered light foxing. Attractive ornamentation. Good plus.
Wigglesworth opposed unbridled evangelism, the Great Awakening, and Reverend Whitefield.
He warns his audience not "to believe every Pretender to divine Revelations to be under the Conduct of the Spirit of Truth, because he himself had Confidence to affirm it; but to examine first what Right such Persons could make out to such Pretences; and not to receive the Dictates of any Man as divine Oracles, whatever specious Pretences he might make without sufficient Reason to believe him a Teacher sent from God."
Evans 3975. ESTC W29094. Sabin 103903.
Wigglesworth opposed unbridled evangelism, the Great Awakening, and Reverend Whitefield.
He warns his audience not "to believe every Pretender to divine Revelations to be under the Conduct of the Spirit of Truth, because he himself had Confidence to affirm it; but to examine first what Right such Persons could make out to such Pretences; and not to receive the Dictates of any Man as divine Oracles, whatever specious Pretences he might make without sufficient Reason to believe him a Teacher sent from God."
Evans 3975. ESTC W29094. Sabin 103903.
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Title
A SEASONABLE CAVEAT AGAINST BELIEVING EVERY SPIRIT: WITH SOME DIRECTIONS FOR TRYING THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD. GIVEN IN TWO PUBLIC LECTURES IN THE HALL OF HARVARD-COLLEGE AT CAMBRIDGE, N. E. APRIL 22 AND 29, 1735
Author
Wigglesworth, Samuel
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Printed for D. Henchman: Boston
Date
1735