Woods, Leonard. Love of Popularity: A Sermon, delivered Feb. 23, 1820, at the Installation of the Rev. Warren Fay, as pastor of the first Congregational Church and Society in Charlestown, Mass. Charlestown, [Mass.]: G. Clark & Co., 1820. First Edition. [10508]
Recently sewn into a new acid-free wrapper. 8 1/4 x 5 inches, historical society emboss stamp and old ink number on the title page, 41 pp. with many markings in the margins, text is dark and soiled. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is I Thessalonians 2:4, "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts." The author goes on to distinguish those traits in a Christian minister which are man-pleasing and those which are God-pleasing.
Leonard Woods, Sr. (1774-1854), Harvard graduate (1796), ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at West Newberry, Massachusetts (1798), first professor in Andover Theological Seminary, from 1808 to 1846 occupying the chair of Abbot Professor of Christian Theology. He was widely known for upholding orthodox Calvinism over Unitarianism. He helped to establish several societies including the American Tract Society, the American Education Society, the Temperance Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
