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Prominent Revolutionary War New York minister Abraham Keteltas' copy, of Puritan pastor Philip Doddridge's commentary and devotional on the New Testament. With Keteltas' red inkstamp ABRM KETELTAS at top of title, and his marginal notes in four places. 4to. Full leather, front board nearly detached. Keteltas (1732-98) earned his degree in theology from Yale in 1752. He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, NJ, for a year before serving as an itinerant pastor to Dutch and Huguenot parishes in Jamaica and Long Island. He was fluent in three languages, and reputedly a masterful preacher. He gave strong support to the revolutionary cause in his sermons, and in 1776 was elected to the New York Provincial Congress. He was highly regarded by George Washington, who consulted him on a number of occasions. When British troops landed on Long Island he feared retaliation and fled to New England. Perhaps his best-known publication, called a bold and patriotic record (Reformed Anglicans online), was God Arising and Pleading His People's Cause (1777): the cause of truth, against error and falsehood. The cause of pure and undefiled religion, against bigotry, superstition, and human invention, in short, it is the cause of heaven against hell -- of the kind Parent of the Universe against the prince of darkness, and the destroyer of the human race. Seller Inventory # ABE-1702674137605
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