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JOSEPH BELLAMY (1719-1790)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:BELLAMY (1719-1790)  , See also:American theologian, was See also:born in See also:Cheshire, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:February 1719 . He graduated from Yale in 1735, studied See also:theology for a See also:time under See also:Jonathan See also:Edwards, was licensed to preach when scarcely eighteen years old, and from 1740 until his See also:death, on the 6th of See also:March 1790, was pastor of the Congregational See also:church at See also:Bethlehem, Connecticut . The publication of his best-known See also:work, True See also:Religion Delineated (1750), won for him a high reputation as a theologian, and the See also:book was several times reprinted both in See also:England and in See also:America . Despite the fact that with the exception of the See also:period of the " See also:Great Awakening " (1740-1742), when he preached as an itinerant in several neighbouring colonies, his active labours were confined to his own See also:parish, his See also:influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher Jonathan Edwards . This influence was due not only to his publications, but also to the " school " or classes for the training of clergymen which he conducted for many years at his See also:home and from which went forth scores of preachers to every See also:part of New England and the See also:middle colonies (states) . See also:Bellamy's " See also:system " of divinity was in See also:general similar to that of Edwards . During the See also:War of See also:Independence he was loyal to the American cause . The university of See also:Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1768 . He was a powerful and dramatic preacher . His published See also:works, in addition to that above mentioned, include The See also:Wisdom of See also:God in the Permission of See also:Sin (1758), his most characteristic work; Theron, See also:Paulinus and Aspasio; or Letters and Dialogues upon the Nature of Love to God, Faith in See also:Christ, and Assurance of a See also:Title to Eternal See also:Life (1759) ; The Nature and See also:Glory of the See also:Gospel (1762); A See also:Blow at the See also:Root of Antinomianism (1763); There is but One See also:Covenant (1769); Four Dialogues on the See also:Half-Way Covenant (1769) ; and A Careful and Strict Examination of the See also:External Covenant (1769) . His collected Works were published in 3 vols . (New See also:York, 1811-1812), and were republished with a Memoir by Rev .

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Tryon Edwards (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1850) .

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