Griffin, Edward D. A Series of Lectures, delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, on Sabbath Evening. Boston: Doctrinal Tract and Book Society, 1862. Fifth edition, revised and corrected. [12390]
Black blindstamped cloth, gilt spine titles, a little fraying at the spine ends & corner tips, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. 316 generally clean pp., a few pencil jottings, thin faint tidemark in the top margin of a few pages, one hinge a bit wobbly with nothing detached. Good. Hardcover.
Lectures on theology along Calvinistic themes.
Total Depravity; Men with natural affections, but without holiness; Men love God supremely or are His enemies; Regeneration not progressive; Regeneration supernatural; The Means of Grace; Election; The plea of Inability considered; The Perseverance of the Saints; The System confirmed and applied.
Edward Dorr Griffin, D.D. (1770-1837), born at East Haddam, Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1790 with distinguished honor. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in New Hartford in 1795. He was pastor of the church in Newark, New Jersey, from 1801 to 1809, at which time he was appointed to the Bartlett professorship in Andover. In 1811 he was installed as pastor of the Park-street Church in Boston. In 1815 he returned to Newark as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church.
For fifteen years (1821-1836) he was President of Williams College.
“His ministry was marked by numerous revivals. Dr. Griffin was a man of large intellectual proportions.His power of clear, penetrating, and, at the same time of lofty and comprehensive thought – his skill and force in argument, his rhetorical genius and culture, his eloquence, his majestic person and manner, all pervaded and controlled by his enlightened religious devotion, performed efficient service for the Church, and place him among the greatest lights of his age.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
