1777 JAMES BRIGGS. MSs Sermon by First Pastor in Cummington MA, Yale Graduate, and Revivalist. ZZAmericanaandHistory for the Benefit of his

for the Benefit of his Widow and Children

Volume four chipped at spine and boards essentially detached

" the "Checks to Antinomianism" themselves

It's a beautiful work and a welcome correction to our often rather glib way of passing by the act of the Lord's Supper

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1777 JAMES BRIGGS. MSs Sermon by First Pastor in Cummington MA, Yale Graduate, and Revivalist. ZZAmericanaandHistory for the Benefit of hisA fine 2pp MSs sermon [complete] by Revolutionary War era divine, Rev. James Briggs [1745 1825]. Excellent content. A graduate of Yale [c. 1775], Briggs began preaching in Cummington, Massachusetts in 1777. A group of Christians had already gathered, but having no minister, he "filled in" for nearly two years, and was ordained their pastor in 1779. The town, "Voted to give Mr. Briggs two hundred acres of good land, and sixty pounds, stated by rye at