McDowell, John. A Sermon, preached at Newark, N. J., Sept. 13, 1837, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1837. First Edition. [10971]
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A sermon on the text Acts 4:12, "Neither is their salvation in any other: for there is none other name, under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved."
Three divisions, I. Briefly to explain what we are to understand by salvation, II. To show that this salvation is in Christ, and in him alone, III. To apply the subject especially in reference to the object of our present meeting.
John McDowell (1780-1863), b. Bedminster, NJ; educated at the College of New Jersey (Princeton). McDowell (or M'Dowell) was a successful minister and author, with revivals attending his efforts - from 1804 to 1833 there were 1144 persons added to the rolls of his church in Elizabethtown. That year he became pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and from 1846 he was at the new Spring Garden Street Church, where he remained until his death. He published a system of theology and a Bible class manual; for nearly fifty years he was a trustee of Princeton College, and was a founding director of the Princeton Theological Institute.
