1741 | 1803 JONATHAN DICKINSON. A Display of God's Special Grace in American Revival

Dickinson, Jonathan. A Display of God's Special Grace, in a Familiar Dialogue, between a Minister and a Gentleman of his Congregation, about The Work of God, in the conviction and conversion of sinners, so remarkably of late begun and going on in these American parts. Wherein the Objections against some uncommon appearances amongst us are distinctly considered, Mistakes rectified, and the work itself particularly prove to be from the Holy Spirit. With an Addition, in a second conference, relating to sundry Antinomian principles, beginning to obtain in some places. Philadelphia: William W. Woodard, 1803. 79pp.

Pamphlet, with handsome recent marbled wrappers & fly pages, minor edge chipping to a few leaves, old small piece of cello tape bottom corner of title page. Good. Pamphlet. 

Roberts 1501, a reprint of the 1742 original: "A thoughtful consideration of some of the practices of the Great Awakening." Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747), born at Hatfield, Mass.; Presbyterian minister and the first President of Princeton College. Dr. Dickinson graduated at Yale College in 1706, was ordained in 1709, and ministered in several churches situated in New Jersey. “In 1717 he joined the Philadelphia Presbytery, where he continued to exercise his ministry for nearly forty years. In the great Whitefieldian revival he stood up firmly in defence of the genuineness of the work, and on one occasion at least Whitefield is known to have preached in his parish to an immense congregation. Still he had no sympathy with the prevailing fanatical tendencies of the time, and manifested the utmost caution in discriminating between a true and false religious experience…he is supposed to have had a primary influence in originating the College of New Jersey.” – M’Clintock & Strong. Likely reissued to coincide with the Second Great Awakening.