Autograph manuscript, detailed notes for four sermons given in the midst of the Great Awakening

by Henry Messinger

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Together, 12pp. each 4pp. , written in ink in a small neat hand. Each dated by Messinger with the dates the sermons were given. Small 8vo. Unbound. Item #366023 Messinger 1695-1750 , graduated Harvard in 1717 and served as the pastor of the First Church in Wrentham from 1719 until his death. He came to the notice of Cotton Mather at a young age, who noted in his diary in July 1714: There is a poor Lad, but one of uncommon Capacity for

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