[Fitch, Eleazer T.]. A Vindication of the Divine Purpose in relation to the Existence of Sin. New-Haven: Published by Stephen Cook, 1832. [11466]
Removed, wrapper front retained, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 48 pp. Good. Pamphlet.
First published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator, as a review of several articles regarding this theological controversy. The authors of the reviewed items are Rev. W. Fisk, Bennet Tyer, and "Beza."
Rev. Fitch here takes the "New School" understanding of sin and seeks to vindicate God and His government and to embarrass his theological opponents.
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.
