Elliot, Nathan [compiler]. The Columbian Preacher; or, A Collection of Original Sermons, from Preachers of Eminence in the United States, embracing the Distinguishing Doctrines of Grace. Catskill: Nathan Ellliot [sic], 1808. First Edition. [10622]
Full brown leather, red leather title label, worming to the joints & front board, 8 x 5 inches, covers still well-attached. [i]-viii, [9]-304 clean pp. Complete, with the free end papers. Good. Hardcover.
A compilation of American sermons of the Federal Period.
"It is the design, of the editor that this collection shall clearly exhibit the distinguishing doctrines of grace and that nothing opposed to these (as we conceive) shall be admitted." - To the Public, by Elliot.
The final page has "End of the First Volume" at bottom, but no other volumes were published.
Nathan Elliot was a printer at Catskill, New York. He was one of the first members of the Presbyterian Church that organized in the town of Catskill in 1803. He published theological books, almanacs, the newspaper The American Eagle, and later the Catskill Recorder. Elliot was also a member of the Bible Society of the County of Greene, NY, which was formed a year before the American Bible Society, into which it later folded.
This volume contains:
Two sermons by Samuel Austin, D.D., Pastor of a Congregational church in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Two sermons by Calvin Chapin, Pastor of a Congregational Church, in Weathersfield, Connecticut.
One by David Tappan, D.D., Late professor of divinity in Harvard College, Cambridge.
One by Moses Hemmenway, D.D., Pastor of a Church in Wells, District of Maine.
Two by Seth Williston, Pastor of a Congregational Church, in Lisle, state of New-York.
One by David Porter, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church , in Catskill, New-York.
One by Ebenezer Porter, Pastor of a Congregational Church of the first society, in Washington, Connecticut.
One by Timothy Dwight, D.D. President of Yale College.
One by Stephen Fenn, Pastor of a Congregational Church in Harpersfield, New-York.
One by Samuel Miller, D.D., One of the pastors of the United Presbyterian Churches, in the city of New-York.
One by John M. Mason, D.D., Pastor of the Associate-Reformed Church, in the city of New-York.
One by David Osgood, D.D., Pastor of a Church in Medford, Massachusetts.
