A Series of Lecture Sermons

Ballou as his Boston congregation actually heard him. These doctrinal lecture-sermons from the School Street pulpit take up the great controverted topics — the rich man and Lazarus, the end of the world, the judgment — and work through them in his plain, syllogistic, scripture-saturated style. Published within a year of his settling in Boston, the volume spread his preaching far beyond the city and was, with the Treatise, among the books that made converts of readers who never heard him speak.

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