The Christian Spectator, conducted by An Association of Gentlemen, For the year 1821. Volume III. New-Haven: S. Converse, 1821. First Edition. [4663]
Leather spine & corners, sometime rebacked in black leather with part of the original backstrip relaid, marbled boards scuffed and worn, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, new headbands and end papers. 2012 former owner's signature on ffep, 1845 signature of Rev. Charles Thompson on tp. 571 relatively clean pp. with index. Good.
The bulk of this volume is theological, of the New England or Hopkinsian school, a modified Calvinism. There are also reports of revivals, American Indian missions, book reviews, obituaries, &c.
Revival reports from New Haven, central Connecticut (30 towns listed), in the Presbytery of Albany (Rev. Nettleton and others), various Presbyteries of the General Assembly Presbyterian Church (Rochester, Onondaga, Oneida, Otsego, Troy, Albany, &c.), and in the North Consociation of Hartford Co.