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I DEEM it proper to state to the public some of my reasons for consenting to the publication of the following Sermon. A copy of it for the press, was requested by a number of gentlemen, members of the Congregational Society in Arundel, who disbelieve the doctrine of election, or consider, if it be revealed in the Bible, that it ought not to be preached ; in as much as it is irreconcilable with mans [sic] free agency, and beyond the comprehension of any finite capacity. I am credibly informed some have asserted, that the Sermon contains palpable contradictions, and, on this account, they should like to see it in print. Others have said that it inculcates sentiments which are new, not found in the writings, either of Watts, Edwards, or Hopkins. I have therefore concluded to give it to the public with all its novelty and contradictions, and leave them to form what opinion concerning it they please.
— JOSEPH P. FESSENDEN.
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Publication Date
1820
Publisher
James K. Remich
City
Kennebunk, Maine
Keywords
American sermons, Election theology
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
Fessenden, Joseph P., "Sermon, on the Doctrine of Election, Preached at Arundel" (1820). Maine Bicentennial. 12.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainebicentennial/12
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