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Lyman Beecher

A New England minister who opposed the new measures at New Lebanon in 1827 and later invited Finney to Boston.

Summary

This site quotes Lyman Beecher 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.

  • Lived 1775 to 1863, American.
  • Quoted here most in 1 Thessalonians: 1 of 1.

Lyman Beecher

Lived
1775 to 1863
Nation
American
Tradition
Presbyterian and Congregational minister
Portrait
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1 of 1 quotations

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Quoted in full, because Lyman Beecher died in 1863 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.

“It is a spirit of fanaticism, of spiritual pride, censoriousness, and insubordination to the order of the Gospel, which, if not met by the timely and decided disapprobation of ministers and churches, threatens to become one of the greatest evils which is likely to befall…”

Letters of the Rev. Dr. Beecher and Rev. Mr. Nettleton, on the "New Measures" in Conducting Revivals of Religion, p. 80, letter of 15 December 1827

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The rest of the quotation

the cause of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good. BSB

Influence, on the record

  • This site quotes Lyman Beecher 1 times across 1 book.

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A New England minister who opposed the new measures at New Lebanon in 1827 and later invited Finney to Boston.

1 quotation across 1 book

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