Spring, Gardiner. The Doctrine of Election illustrated and established in a Sermon preached on the evening of the second Lord's Day in December, 1816. New York: E. B. Gould, 1817. [11628]
Original blue printed wrapper, signed "John Codman, Dorchester" at top, 9 x 6 inches, 43 clean pp., dark foxing, old institutional ink stamp on tp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Ephesians 1:3-5. In this sermon Rev. Spring states the truth of the Doctrine of Election and answers objections to it.
The former owner: John Codman (1782-1847), Congregational minister, born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1802 and completed his studies in Edinburgh. He preached for a year in Great Britain and returned to America, being ordained pastor of the church in Dorchester. In 1834 he was delegate to the Congregational Union of England and Wales, held in England.
Rev. Gardiner Spring, (1785-1873), American Presbyterian minister, pastor of the Brick Street Presbyterian church in New York City for 63 years. An excellent scholar, he commenced the study of the Greek & Latin languages at the age of 12. Dr. Spring was a Calvinist, a friend of the American Bible Society, and an advocate of missions and revivals, although critical of what he considered to be "spurious revivals." He was widely useful as an author and preacher and "few men in any profession have made a more enduring mark on the age."
