Unusual autobiography of one of Edwards main protégés, Samuel Hopkins [1721-1803]. He studied theology directly with Edwards at Northampton and was licensed to preach in 1742. He was a significant figure in popularizing and rendering usable the theology of Edwards into what became known Hopkinsian or Edwardsian theology. An important primary resource on George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, and the development and use of Edwardsian theology in the run up to the Second Great Awakening.

Accompanied by a fine tipple-engraved frontispiece portrait, drawn and engraved by Abner Reed. Also, the really lovely bookplate Mable E. P. Riggs on the pastedown, which is attributed in the Helen Brainerd Lay Book Collection to Cleora Clark Wheeler and dated to c.1915. An interesteing biography of Wheeler HERE. 

Hopkins, Samuel. Sketches of the Life of the Late, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D. Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport, Written by Himself; Interspersed with Marginal Notes Extracted from His Private Diary; To which is Added; A Dialogue, by the Same Hand, on the Nature and Extent of True Christian Submission; Also a Serious Address to Professing Christians; Closed by Dr. Hart's Sermon at His Funeral: With an Introduction to the Whole. Published by Stephene West, D.D. Pastor of the Church in Stockbridge. Hartford. Hudson and Goodwin. 1805. 240pp.

Bound in original early American calf, handsome with some moderate rubbing as shown with deterioration to extremities of spine label and lower spine, corners. Front hinge surface breeched, but stable. Textually very sound and generally clean. Light foxing.