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SMALLEY, John, clergyman, born in Lebanon, (now Columbia), Connecticut, 4 June, 1734" died in New Britain, Connecticut, 1 June, 1820. After his graduation at Yale in 1756 he studied theology under Rev-Joseph Bellamy, and on 19 April, 1758, was ordained and installed pastor over a newly organized church at New Britain, Connecticut, sustaining the relation, with slight interruption, a little more than fifty years. In 1800 he received the degree of D. D. from Princeton, and in 1810, being infirm, he was given a colleague, preaching afterward occasionally and devoting himself to the preparation of a second volume of discourses for publication. Dr. Smalley's sermons, which he always read in the pulpit, have seldom been surpassed in logical accuracy, clearness, and strength. The Reverend Royal Robbins says in 1856" " Dr. Smalley, in referring to his treatise on 'Natural and Moral Inability, ' seemed to think that no one previously had drawn the proper distinctions on this subject--not even Edwards had made the matter clear. Admitting the correctness of this opinion, he is to be regarded as the father of New England theology in that branch of it." He published two sermons on "Natural and Moral Inability" (1769" republished in London)" two on " Universal Salvation" (1785-'6)-one on "The Perfection of Divine Law" (1787)" and an "Election Sermon" (1800). Two volumes of his sermons were issued in 1803-'14.
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