Not a single copy available on the market of this important pre-American Revolutionary War sermon. In it, Nathaniel Appleton, by now an elder statesman among the Colonial preachers and fresh out of the season of the Great Awakening, provides young Oliver Peabody a model of Gospel Preaching in the person of Paul.
A wonderful, crystallized articulation of what ideal preaching was in the eyes of those in the aftermath of the Great Awakening.
Young Oliver Peabody, just 24 years of age at the time, was hardly ignorant though. He had seen faithfulness. His father, Oliver Peabody Sen., had received a call to preach the Gospel among the Natick Indians after an already effective ministry preaching elsewhere.
Appleton would go on to preach one of the most significant sermons on the repeal of the Stamp Act.
Young Oliver Peabody would die just one year after the publication of the present, in 1752. His father died the same year.
Appleton, Nathaniel. The Great Apostle Paul Exhibited, and Recommended as a Pattern of True Gospel Preaching: In a Sermon Preach'd at Roxbury, November 7, 1750. At the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Oliver Peabody, Junr. Boston. New-England: Printed and Sold by J. Draper, in Cornhill. 1751. 36pp.
Very good, crisp example, removed from a sammelband at some point. Text unusually crisp and clean.