The First Devinity Lecture made by me James Pierpont & published in Yale College

Abstract

Among the manuscripts in the Edwards Family Papers recently arrived at Yale University from Andover Newton Theological School are a number by James Pierpont the elder and younger. Pierpont Sr. was pastor of the First Church of New Haven, Connecticut, from 1684 until his death in 1714, as well as an original trustee of the school that would become Yale College; Pierpont Jr., the oldest son of James Sr. and Mary Hooker Pierpont, was for a time a tutor of the college co-founded by his father. Presented here, for the first time, is a sample from that cache: lectures delivered by Pierpont the younger to students at Yale College only four years after it had been established in New Haven.