THE CHARACTER AND REWARD OF THE FAITHFUL AND WISE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST: A SERMON, OCCASIONED BY THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE REVEREND NATHANAEL HOOKER, PASTOR OF THE FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HARTFORD. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JUNE 9, 1770, IN THE XXXIIID YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND XIIITH OF HIS MINISTRY. DELIVERED AT HIS MOURNFUL INTERMENT, JUNE 11TH. BY JOSEPH PERRY, A.M. AND PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN EAST-WINDSOR.
Hartford: Printed by Green & Watson, 1770. Small 4to. 24pp, with the half title. Later plain brown wrappers [light dustsoiling and wear], stitched. Lightly tanned, scattered foxing, light wear. Some old manuscript notations and underscoring in ink. Good+. Half title inscription, 'From Miss Clarissa Lord Pitkin' and 'Geo. Allen's- 1865.'
Nathaniel Hooker graduated from Yale in 1755, and was licensed to preach at 19 years old. He died in his early 30's. "The sermon at his funeral by his friend, the Rev. Joseph Perry [Harvard 1752], pastor of the First Church in what is now South Windsor... describes Mr. Hooker as 'one of the best preachers, and most excellent sermonizers' of that day. 'As to his sentiments in religion, they were of a noble, manly, rational complexion, and of a catholic turn.' 'His natural temper was very chearful, pleasant, and innocently humorous.'" II Dexter, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE 371 (1896).
Evans 11811. Trumbull 1241. Item #25721
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