Dana, James:

THE REFLECTION AND PROSPECT OF A CHRISTIAN MINISTER AT THE CLOSE OF LIFE. A SERMON, PREACHED IN THE CITY OF NEW-HAVEN, JULY 29, 1787. BEING THE LORD'S DAY AFTER FUNERAL OF THE REVEREND CHAUNCEY WHITTELSEY, PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN THAT CITY; WHO DIED JULY 24, 1787, IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND 30TH OF HIS MINISTRY. BY...SENIOR PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN WALLINGFORD.

New Haven: Daniel Bowen, 1787. 30pp, lacking the half title. Disbound, light to moderate foxing, Good+.

Whittelsey is lauded as an "apostolic minister, who, having fought a good fight and kept the faith, hath finished his course." Dana says that Whittelsey "wished not to exceed seventy years." Dana urges the bereft congregation "to avoid divisions" and to "continue, as in years past, like a city compact together."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 20316. Item #10390

Price: $150.00