Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Certificates and Licenses
Series 3: Family
Series 4: Lectures, Sermons, and Manuscripts
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Laurens Perseus Hickok Papers, 1822-1875 (bulk 1830-1845)
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Sorscher, Peter Nelson.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2003
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Creator:
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Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus), 1798-1888 |
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Title:
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Hickok Papers |
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Dates:
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1822-1875 |
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Dates:
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1830-1845 |
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Abstract:
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The collection includes correspondence, certificates and licenses, lectures, sermons, and other writings by Hickok. Sermons make up the bulk of the collection. Much of the correspondence in the collection concerns Hickok's uneasy career at Union College, from his appointment as Vice President to his resignation in 1866. The collection also contains some correspondence between Hickok and his family, including his wife, Elizabeth Taylor Hickok.
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8 archives boxes(4 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Laurens Perseus Hickok was born in 1798 in Bethel, Connecticut. His teaching career began even before his career as a college student when he opened a small private school in Bethel. When he was twenty, Hickok entered Union College as a junior. Upon returning home he married his former student in Bethel, Elizabeth Taylor. Through this marriage he became related to Mrs. Hickok's brother-in-law, Deacon Seth Seelye (whose son, Julius Hawley Seelye, went on to become Amherst College's 5th president). Hickok then decided to become a minister. He received no formal education in theology, but instead apprenticed himself to practicing ministers. He was pastor of the church at Kent for six years, and went on to preach at Litchfield.
In 1836, Hickok became Professor of Theology at Western Reserve University in Hudson, Ohio. In 1844 he moved to the Auburn Theological Seminary, where he taught as a professor for eight years. He returned to Union College in 1855 as Vice President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. He became president of Union in 1866, but resigned the same year due to continuing political opposition from a number of faculty and trustees.
Hickok spent the last twenty years of his life in Amherst, where he influenced a whole generation of rising teachers and students of philosophy through his books (revised with the help of his nephew and former student, then President Julius Seelye). Hickok's works include Rational Psychology (1849) and Rational Cosmology (1858). Many of his sermons are included in this collection.
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The collection includes correspondence, certificates and licenses, lectures, sermons, and other writings by Hickok. Sermons make up the bulk of the collection. Much of the correspondence in the collection concerns Hickok's uneasy career at Union College, from his appointment as Vice President to his resignation in 1866. The collection also contains some correspondence between Hickok and his family, including his wife, Elizabeth Taylor Hickok.
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This collection is organized into four series:
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Series 1: Correspondence
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Correspondence to Hickok from others
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Correspondence from Hickok to others
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Correspondence to Elizabeth Taylor Hickok (Mrs. L. P. Hickok)
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Concerning appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice-Presidency of Union College (with copies of replies)
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Appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice-Presidency (with copy of reply)
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From President Eliphalet Nott, May 14, 1859, and Mrs. Urania Nott
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To President Eliphalet Nott (reply to Nott's letter of May 14, 1859)
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From President Nott (with copies of replies)
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From President Nott - the commitment of College to the care of Vice President Hickok
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Union College Investigation - Resolutions of Classes and Alumni
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Report of Union College Investigation
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L. P. Hickok from Asa D. Smith, President of Dartmouth College
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L. P. Hickok from George W. Stewart and Rev. F. W. Flint
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Union College investigation - Letter from Hon. Alonzo C. Paige with replies
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L. P. Hickok from Samuel Seelye and Thomas Seelye - Congratulations upon the appointment as President of Union college
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Acceptance of Resignation of President Hickok by the Board of Trustees
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Calls to pastorates of Churches (with copies of replies)
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Series 2: Certificates and Licenses
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences - certificate
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Agreements with Publishers, Copyright Certificates, Receipts
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American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions - certificate
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License to preach the Gospel - Eastern District of Fairfield County, Conn.
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American Bible Society - Certificate of Membership
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License to Solemnize Marriages
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Membership certificates - Litchfield, Conn.:
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American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions
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Connecticut Bible Society
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Membership Certificates - Hudson, Ohio:
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Societas Franklin Scientifica Rhetoricaque
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American Home Missionary Society (director)
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Certificate of Western Reserve Scholarship
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Series 3: Family
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Hickok genealogy and wills of Esther G. Hickok and Timothy B. Hickok
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Copy of Bond from Sarah Jane Hickok and J. Lawrence Marcellus
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Form and orders of service - Latin
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Bankbook - Bank of Auburn, N. Y.
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Life Sketch, and Union College booklet on Hickok
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Tributes and Obituary Notices (with letter from Cornelia Martin)
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Series 4: Lectures, Sermons, and Manuscripts
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A Course of Lectures Comprising a Body of Systematic Theology Delivered to the Middle Class of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1850-1851, Vol. 1
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A Course of Lectures... Vol. 2
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A Course of Lectures... Vol. 3
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Mental and Moral Science (bound volume)
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Positive Divine Instructions
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The Two Administrations of the Divine Government over Mankind, vol. 1 and 2
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Doctrinal Theology, Vol. 1
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Doctrinal Theology, Vol. 2
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Evidence of Christianity
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Address to Union College students - Class of 1863
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Lecture 7 - The Sermon in Connection with the Text
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Personal responsibility unwelcome to the wicked
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The kind of interest in religious that may be trusted
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Lectures in Outline Rhetoric - Lecture 1, The Province of Rhetoric
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Moses' death instructive and encouraging
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Unfruitful professors useless except in their destruction
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Error is to be met by directly counteracting truth
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A refusal to help the Lord
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Compliance with Gospel in terms necessary
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Man cannot subvert but may advance the truth of the Bible
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American influences that are changing the world
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An address to the pupils of the female seminary in North Granville, N.Y., July 30, 1863
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Divine Truth awakes the hostility of unholy men
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Charge to the Professor of Christian Theology, June 20, 1855
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A wise self-reliance secures success
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Wicked men dislike and good men approve all methods of applying divine truth
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The sinfulness of selfishness
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Public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion
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God's law gives Christian stability
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The difficulties and discouragements of the missionary enterprise, Feb. 3, 1848
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The sin of presuming on the future
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God uses restraints in his government of the wicked
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The necessity of a wise adaptation of truth in order to the salvation of man
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The free and fruitful activity of thinking men
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The sin of presuming the on the future
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Subordination of all things to Christ
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The full idea of Christianity in human life
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The living activity of thinking men
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Man must advance but cannot subvert truth
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Willful ignorance brings judicial blindness
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God's kingdom taken from the fruitless
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The complete idea of the world's conversion to Jesus Christ
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Theologic ideas
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An education useless from certain defects
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John 16.14 - Seminary 1852
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Error must be met by that truth which directly counteracts it. - Youngstown, Aug. 6, 1839
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Public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion - Nov. 7, 1841
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The insensibility of man to the claims of religion
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Matthew 13.28 - April 1829
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The proper application and peculiarities of Christian comfort
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Psalms 106.15 - Seminary, Oct. 1850
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Missionary sermon, Matthew 6.10 - 1833
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New Year's Sermon - 1833, Hebrews 11.13
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The nature, necessity, and practice of Holiness
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Dedication sermon - public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion
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Ezekiel 33.32 - June 28, 1843
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Matthew 5.13 - June 24, 1850
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Error must be directly met by counteracting truth
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The necessity of sacrifices and the wisdom of making them
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The obligations to personal experimental religion paramount to all other considerations
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Personal responsibility involved in the possession of moral faculties
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Eulogy for Leonard Lathrop
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Lecture to the students of Western Reserve College - Rational self-confidence is the secret to success
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It is easy to go down and win - the door stands open night and day - but it is hard work to get back
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The can because they think they can
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Lecture before the students of Western Reserve College - Nature of conscience and its application to human conduct
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Authority a source of moral obligation
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Lecture before the college
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Lecture to the college - the man will be as his object
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John 17.20 - Kent, Oct. 1827
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John 8.31-32 - Litchfield, April 1830
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Joshua 5.1 - Kent, June 1828
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II Corinthians 11.14 - March 1829
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On Preaching the Gospel, Acts 8.35
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Duty of Hearers - Acts 10.33
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On Christian Hope - Litchfield, Ma 1830
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Deuteronomy 4.9 - Jan. 1826
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Luke 9.57-62 - Kent, July 1826
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The Promises of God - II Corinthians 1.20, Dec. 1828
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Ephesians 2.20-21 - Dec. 1827
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Ignorance of God, Acts 17.23 - 1827
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Thessalonians 5.6-7 - 1827
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Matthew 5.3-5 - Oct. 1834
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Luke 24.47 - New Town, July 1823
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Lecture before the Lyceum, Litchfield, March 1833
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Lecture before the College
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Address to the Deacons - Bud and Wilborne at their induction into office
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John 21.6 - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
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I Corinthians 2.14 - On Spiritual Discernment, 1826
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Revelations 2.4 - Litchfield, Dec. 1829-31
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Hosea 13.1 - Litchfield, July 4, 1830
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John 6.67-68 - Sept. 1825
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The Blessings of Believing without Seeing. John 20.29, May 1826
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Corinthians 15.33 - Litchfield, June 1830-32
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On the Name of Jesus, Matthew 1.21 - New Town, June 1823
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Matthew 21.44 - Kent, Oct. 1827
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Decision of Christian Character, Ruth 1.18 - Litchfield, 1830
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Luke 12.48 - Litchfield, June 1831
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Hebrews 4.2 - Kent, Nov. 1827
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The Witness of the Spirit, Romans 8.16 - Kent, Dec. 1827
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John 9.31 - College, Nov. 1838
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John 4.14 - Litchfield, Feb. 1831
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Luke 6.19 - Litchfield, April 1831-33
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Ecclesiastes 5.5 - Dec. 1828
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II Samuel 19.34 - Litchfield, May 1830
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Luke 13.23 - Litchfield Aug. 1830
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II Kings, 7.3 - Torrington, Dec. 1825
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II Corinthians 4.7 - 1822
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Acts 26.28 - Litchfield, June 1831
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Galatians 6.4-5 - Litchfield, Oct. 1833
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Philippians 2.12-13 - Dec. 1833
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II Corinthians 4.3 - May 1831
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Religion the One Thing Needful. Luke 10.42 - Sept. 1826
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II Kings 6.27 - Nov. 1828
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Matthew 24.32 - Sept. 1827
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Matthew 20.15 - Oct. 1825-26
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Ezekiel 18.25 - College, April 1842
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Hosea 6.4 - College, Special Meeting, Nov. 1839
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Joshua 2.5 - College, June 1844
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Luke 12.47 - College, June 1840
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The Doctrine of Infant Baptism, Genesis 17.7
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8 Sermons on the Church of God - Litchfield, Mar. 1830
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Question for Examination on Biblical Interpretation
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13 Sermons on the Confession of Faith of Congregational Church, Litchfield
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Missionary Sermon, John 6.11 - Jan. 1832
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Missionary Sermon, John 3.30
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Missionary Sermon, Zechariah 4.6-7
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New Year's Sermon, Genesis 1.14 - 1832
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New Year's Sermon, Psalm 90.12 - 1831
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New Year's Sermon, Genesis 47.8-9 - 1834
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Communion Sermon, Hebrews 9.16 - Litchfield, Jan. 1830
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Communion Sermon, John 14.28 - July 1842
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Communion Sermon, Matthew 11.28 - Litchfield, Jan 1830
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Temperance Sermon, Romans 14.15 - Feb. 1833
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Temperance Sermon, Timothy 5.23 - Feb. 1833
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An Address before the Litchfield County Temperance Society
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For Colonization Society - July 1832
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On Tract Distribution - July 1834
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Thanksgiving Sermon, Daniel 2.21
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Thanksgiving Sermon, Revelations 11.7
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Thanksgiving Sermon, Psalms 97.1
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Thanksgiving Sermon, Colossians 3.15
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Fast Sermon, Proverbs 14.34 - April 1828
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State Fast on the Occasion of the Cholera, Isaiah 26.20-21 - July 19, 1832
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Sermon for the State Fast, Luke 2.36-37 - 1825
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Results of Sabbath Schools, Zechariah 4.10 - Oct. 1833
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The Importance of Sabbath Schools, Proverbs 22.6 - April 1828
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Isaiah 60.21-22, Missionary Sermon
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Psalm 102.13-14 - Litchfield, Sept. 1830
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II Corinthians 5.19 - March 1833
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Romans 7.9 - College, July 1844
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Acts 2.37 - College, March 1843
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Psalms 4.3 - Litchfield, Nov. 1831
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I Corinthians 9.26-27 - College, May 1839
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The Christian's Disquietudes and Consolations, New Town, July 1822
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John 17.22 - Litchfield, June 1830
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Habakkuk 3.2 - August 1833
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Psalms 10.13 - New Town, 1822
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Corinthians 13.13 - March 1832
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Ephesians 1.23 - Litchfield, Aug. 1832
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Hebrews 12.28 - Kent 1826
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Romans 3.3 - College, Nov. 1844
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Jeremiah 8.22 - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
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Revelations 3.7 - New Town 1822
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Matthew 25.8 - Litchfield, June 1831
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Romans 11.14 - August 1835
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Romans 7.24-25 - Dec. 1835
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Proverbs 17.16 - College, 1841
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Jonah - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
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II Corinthians 3.18 - College, Jan. 1842-44
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Galatians 4.18 - Jan 1835
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Luke 17.26-30 - Dec. 1835
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Timothy 5.6 - June 1835-36
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Ezekiel 3.19 - March 1834
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II Corinthians 5.15 - March 1836
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Hebrews 2.3 - College, Feb. 1842
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Isaiah 29.11-12 - August 1836
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I Corinthians 2.14 - College, July 1839
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Matthew 11.16-19 - College, Oct. 1840
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Genesis 15.16 - Sept. 1835-36
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The Duty of Thinking More of our Sin and Less of our Virtue, May 1825
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Proverbs 10.17 - June 1835-36
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Ephesians 4.18 - July 1835
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I Corinthians 1.18 - College, Oct. 1842
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Ephesians 6.10 - College, June 1843
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Psalms 19.11 - College, Nov. 1842
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Isaiah 59.19 - College 1838
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Comprehensive Evolution in Three Distinctive Grades
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Reason and Revelation, or The Scriptural Order of the Divine Manifestations Undeniably Comprehensive of the Universe
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Questions on Chapters of a Book
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