Cogswell, William. Religious Liberty. A Sermon, preached on the day of the Annual Fast in Massachusetts, April 3, 1828. Boston: Pierce and Williams, 1828. First Edition. [11358]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches, newly stitched, 22 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Galatians 5:1, "Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage."
"The Gospel, when believed and practiced, is attended with the highest Christian liberty...Those governments, too, which are founded on the principles of the Gospel, will impart to their subjects the greatest degree of civil liberty." p. 3.
The author's design is to 1. Point out the religious liberties, which the Gospel and our republican government guaranty to the people of this Commonwealth. 2. Consider the duty of standing fast in the religious liberties, wherewith we are made free.
William Cogswell (1787-1850), of New Hampshire, Congregational minister. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1811, and taught school for several years afterward. In 1815 he was ordained to the ministry and installed as pastor of the South church in Dedham, Mass. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard and from Brown in 1816, and that of D.D. from Williams College in 1833. Dr. Cogswell was Secretary of the American Education Society, a trustee of Andover theological seminary, served as a professor at Dartmouth and as president and professor of Christian Theology at the theological seminary in Gilmanton, N.H.
