{"id":2674,"date":"2017-11-20T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2017-11-20T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:52:46","slug":"newington-preachers-sermon-1726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2017\/11\/20\/newington-preachers-sermon-1726\/","title":{"rendered":"Newington preacher&#8217;s sermon (1726!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2675 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416-625x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416-625x1024.jpg 625w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416-768x1257.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img416.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>Just acquired! A sweet bit of local history&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>An early 18thC manuscript sermon by Rev. Simon Backus (1701-1746), who 20 years later died serving as Chaplain to 350 Connecticut troops on the expediton to Louisburg, Cape Breton.<\/p>\n<p>Backus was brother-in-law to Jonathan Edwards (he was married to Eunice Edwards (1706-1778)), and also a graduate of Yale College (1724).<\/p>\n<p>The second minister to be assigned to Newington, CT, he preached this sermon on September 11, 1726, 18 days after the parish voted to hire him full-time (albeit at a meagre salary).<\/p>\n<p>The sermon proper begins on p. 5, comprises 15 pages, and is on the doctrine &#8220;That Pofessors of Christianity are Eminently obliged to a Life of Holiness and Piety.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just acquired! A sweet bit of local history&#8230;. An early 18thC manuscript sermon by Rev. Simon Backus (1701-1746), who 20 years later died serving as Chaplain to 350 Connecticut troops on the expediton to Louisburg, Cape Breton. Backus was brother-in-law to Jonathan Edwards (he was married to Eunice Edwards (1706-1778)), and also a graduate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,47,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}