A discourse intended for the Dudleian lecture in the University of Cambridge,
The hand-sewn notebook contains a 44-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Jeremy Belknap on September 1, 1790 at Harvard College on the topic of the ordination of ministers. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Tim 2:2. The copy includes edits and struck-out words. The “H...
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| 520 | 2 | |a The hand-sewn notebook contains a 44-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Jeremy Belknap on September 1, 1790 at Harvard College on the topic of the ordination of ministers. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Tim 2:2. The copy includes edits and struck-out words. The “Hymn from Dr. Doddridge’s Collection No. 289” is transcribed on the final page. The covers are no longer with the item. The lecture was never published | |
| 545 | 0 | |a Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798), a minister and historian, was born in Boston on June 4, 1744. He received an AB from Harvard in 1762 and an AM in 1765. He became the minister of the First Congregational Church of Dover, New Hampshire in 1767, and later served as the minister of the Church in Long Lane, Boston. As a historian, Belknap published the History of New Hampshire and American Biography. Belknap founded the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1791 and also served on the Harvard Board of Overseers. He died on June 20, 1798 | |
| 545 | 1 | |a Harvard’s oldest endowed lecture, the annual Dudleian lecture, is funded by a bequest from the 1750 will of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts Paul Dudley (1675-1750/1). Dudley specified that the topics of the annual sermon were to rotate among four themes: natural religion, revealed religion, the "Romish church," and the validity of the ordination of ministers. The first lecture was given in 1755, and the series continued uninterrupted until 1857, when the fund was suspended to allow for accumulation. The lecture series began again in 1888. In 1911, the Trustees voted to discontinue the third lecture topic, and the series continued rotating among the three topics until 1956, when another lecture topic, "Catholicism and Protestantism," was voted into the rotation | |
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