Cooke, Parsons. The Divine Law of Beneficence. New York: American Tract Society, c. 1850. [10632]
Blindstamped cloth, faded to brown at the spine and edges, 6 x 4 inches, tight. 104, 8 pages, the last 8 being testimonies to the worthiness of the system laid down in the book. Good. Hardcover.
A treatment of charity and church giving, with examination of God's design in it, how it appears in both Testaments, and reasons for complying with this law of the Bible.
Rev. Parsons Cooke (1800-1864), b. Hadley, Massachusetts; d. Lynn, Massachusetts. Rev. Cooke was graduated at Williams College, afterwards studying theology with Edward Dorr Griffin. After serving briefly as pastor in two churches in 1836 he became the minister of the First Congregational Church in Lynn, Mass., where he remained for nearly thirty years. He was also the the author of several books, was on the Orthodox side of the Unitarian controversies, and edited The New England Puritan periodical.
"Dr. Cooke was strongly Calvinistic in his views, constantly opposed the New-School or moderately Calvinistic Congregationalists, and occasionally became involved in discussions with other denominations. As a preacher, he was doctrinal rather than hortatory." - Appletons.
