Hooker, Nathaniel:

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SIX DISCOURSES, ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS; PREACHED BY THE REV. NATHANIEL HOOKER, A.M. AND LATE PASTOR OF THE FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HARTFORD.... A posthumous collection of Hooker's greatest hits, published the year after his death. The sermons are:1) "A Grateful Recollection of God's Providence, Particularly Relative to the Remarkable Settlement, Defence and Increase of the Four New-England Colonies...."2) "A Particular Providence Asserted, Demonstrated, and Improved."3) "Christian Sincerity."4) "Scripture Examples, Their Design, and Use."5) "The Nature, Extent, and Obligations of Charity...."6) "Pertinent Reflections on Old Age, or Old Age Improved."In contrast to those of his contemporaries, Hooker's sermons generally presume the goodness of man as a given, and he favors encouragement rather than denouncement. An attractive window into a specific colonial religious mind.

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