Notes: | Photocopy by author of original thesis. "I wish, also, to express particular gratitude to Dr. Calvin Schmitt, of the McCormick Theological Seminary Library, Chicago, Illinois, for making available the volumes of Davies' Sermons on Important Subjects and related materials pertinent to the study"--acknowlegements. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota. Bibiliography: leaves 327-342. Samuel Davies, an evangelical Presbyterian minister, preached in the colony of Virginia from 1747 to 1759, when he became President of the College of New Jersey, succeeding Jonathan Edwards. He was an ardent advocate of colonial defence in the French and Indian War, 1755-1763; and he supported religous freedom for the Dissenters in the colony of Virginia under the Act of Toleration. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
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