SERMON, PREACHED APRIL 29, 1789...AT HIS INSTALLATION TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FIRST CHURCH AND CONGREGATION IN THE CITY OF NEW-HAVEN
1789 · New Haven
by Dana, James
New Haven, 1789. 43pp, stitched with the half title. Lightly worn and age-toned. About Very Good.
As DAB notes, Dana was installed pastor of the church on this date, "the council being made memorable by a theological tilt between Dana and Jonathan Edwards, the younger. In the controversy between the 'Old Divinity' and the 'New' he became a strong defender of the former as against the opinions of Drs. Bellamy, Hopkins, West, and Edwards."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 21782. Trumbull 546. (Inventory #: 16120)
As DAB notes, Dana was installed pastor of the church on this date, "the council being made memorable by a theological tilt between Dana and Jonathan Edwards, the younger. In the controversy between the 'Old Divinity' and the 'New' he became a strong defender of the former as against the opinions of Drs. Bellamy, Hopkins, West, and Edwards."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 21782. Trumbull 546. (Inventory #: 16120)