[Fitch, Eleazer T.]. A Review of Dr. Woods' Letters to Dr. Taylor, on the Permission of Sin. Together with Remarks on Dr. Bellamy's Treatise on the same subject; First published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator, for September 1830. New-Haven: Baldwin and Treadway, Printers, 1830. Second Edition. [11475]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 50 pages, foxing. Good. Pamphlet.
A defense of Nathaniel William Taylor, D.D. (1786-1858), who was attacked in print by Leonard Woods over holding to New School views of God's permission of sin. Taylor and Fitch were both professors at Yale at the time of this controversy. The author charges Woods with misrepresenting the views of Taylor and of holding views of the subject that are "encumbered with great and palpable inconsistencies." He discovers 13 inconsistencies in the arguments of Woods, defended by fallacious reasonings.
Attributed to Eleazar Thompson Fitch (1791-1871), b. & d. at New Haven, CT. Fitch graduated at Yale College in 1810 and in 1817 was made Livingston Professor of Divinity at Yale College (1817-1852), and served as Lecturer on Homiletics at the Yale Divinity School (1824-1861). Among his other abilities as an author he was also a hymn-writer, and with Leonard Bacon and other compiled the Psalms & Hymns (1845) used by the Congregational churches in Connecticut and elsewhere.
