[UNITARIAN] The Unity of God, A Sermon, delivered in America, September, 1816

[Thacher, Samuel Cooper]. The Unity of God, A Sermon, delivered in America, September, 1816. New-York: Printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich Street, 1820. Third Edition, from the First Liverpool Edition. [12571]

Self-wraps, untrimmed edges, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, 23, [1] pages, bottom corners chewed and tattered, not affecting any text. Final page contains adverts for Unitarian books. "By the Revd. S. Thacer, at Boston" in brown ink on the title page. Fair. Pamphlet.

The text is Mark 12:29, 32, 34. "And Jesus answered him: The first of all the commandments is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord..." The author laments the state of agitation in the churches over the doctrine of the unity of God and is repelled by what he deems to be uncharitable and unchristian debates regarding it. In this sermon Rev. Thacher promotes and defends the Unitarian view.

Sabin attributes this to Samuel Cooper Thacher with the date corrected to September, 1815.

Samuel Cooper Thacher (1785-1818), Unitarian minister of Puritan stock. His ancestor was Rev. Thomas Thacher, who came to New England in 1635. Thacher graduated at Harvard College in 1804, and continued his theological studies under the Rev. William E. Channing. He was made librarian at Harvard College in 1808, and in 1811 pastor of South Church in Boston.