1727 JONATHAN EWARDS. 1727 MSs Sermon on Early Piety by Jonathan Edwards' Brother-in-Law, Samuel Backus. Sermons Very scarce on the market

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1727 JONATHAN EWARDS. 1727 MSs Sermon on Early Piety by Jonathan Edwards' Brother-in-Law, Samuel Backus. Sermons Very scarce on the marketA superb 14pp sermon on early piety by important New England divine, Samuel Backus [1701 1746] of Newington, Connecticut. Born in 1701, he graduated Yale in 1724 and was ordained in 1727 to succeed Elisha Williams, who was both Jonathan Edwards uncle and the Rector of Yale College during Edwards' time there. Furthering the Edwards family connection, Samuel Backus then married Eunice Edwards, Jonathan's sister. Jonathan would visit his sister in