Letter to the Rev. Nathaniel Smith : on the impiety and indignity offered to God by naming and attempting to portray the hearts and characters of individuals in public prayer to an omniscient God.
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Layman of the reformed Protestant Christian Church in the town of Trenton,
ResumoTitle from caption. Signed (p. 6): "A layman of the reformed Protestant Christian Church in the town of Trenton." In 1826 the Rev. Nathaniel S. Smith, leader of a revival movement in Trenton, near Utica, N.Y., offered a public prayer in which he named Col. A.G. Mappa, a leading Trenton Unitarian, and exhorted God to "smite that wicked man, that hardened sinner ..." (p. 2). Cf. Charles Graves, A century of village Unitarianism ... (Boston, 1904) p. 65. Book.
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