Virginia’s Danger and Remedy
Samuel Davies’ 1756 sermon ‘Virginia: Danger and Remedy’ warns of drought, military defeat and frontier massacres, urging national repentance, prayer, and reform.
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Virginia’s Danger and Remedy
Frontier Warfare [from the Gentleman’s Magazine]
Feb 1757 Gentleman’s Magazine issue: trial of Admiral Byng, reports on North American campaigns (Forts Ontario/Oswego), military critique, and poems on frontier atrocities.
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Frontier Warfare [from the Scot’s Magazine]
Scots Magazine (Feb 1757): political and military reports (Braddock, Virginia frontier), news items, and poetry—prologues, epilogues, and poems lamenting wartime atrocities.
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Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies, etc. Shewing the State of Religion, Particularly Among the Negroes
Rev. Samuel Davies reports revival in Virginia: public readings and preaching led many, including enslaved Africans, to conversion. He describes Bible distribution, baptism, and growing congregations.
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The Crisis: Or, The Uncertain Doom of Kingdoms at Particular Times
Samuel Davies’ 1756 sermon warns Great Britain and her colonies of impending national judgment amid war, urging solemn national repentance and faith, citing Jonah’s Nineveh.
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Little Children Invited to Jesus Christ
1757 sermon by Samuel Davies urging children and youth to come to Jesus: convicting of sin, trust in Christ’s atonement, childlike humility, repentance, and immediate faith.
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Poetical Essays for July 1758
American Magazine (July 1758): reports on parliamentary handling of colonial iron imports and the North American war; poetic essays including a Jeremiah 31 paraphrase and a gospel invitation.
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The Curse of Cowardice
1758 sermon urging Virginia militia to take up arms against French and Indian attacks, condemning cowardice as sinful and framing military defense as a God‑sanctioned duty.
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The Duty of Christians to Propagate Their Religion Among Heathens
1757 sermon by Samuel Davies urging Virginia slaveholders to evangelize and instruct their Negro slaves, arguing Christianity's universal duty and the souls' equal immortality.
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The Vessels of Mercy, and the Vessels of Wrath, Delineated, in a New, Uncontroverted, and Practical Light
Samuel Davies’ 1756 sermon (Rom. 9:22–23) contrasts vessels of mercy fitted for glory with vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, urging holiness, self-examination, and divine preparation.
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A Sermon Delivered at Nassau-Hall, January 14, 1761, on the Death of His Late Majesty King George II
Elegy/preface mourning the sudden death of President Samuel Davies of the College of New-Jersey, extolling his piety, learning, ministry, and impact on students and church.
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Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies, etc. Shewing the State of Religion, Particularly Among the Negroes (1757)
Rev. Samuel Davies reports an 18th-century revival in Virginia: awakenings, conversions and baptisms among white congregants and enslaved Africans, aided by itinerant preaching and book distribution.
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Religion and Public Spirit: A Valedictory Address
Samuel Davies’ 1760 valedictory urges graduates to unite religion and public spirit, imitating David—‘He served his generation’—calling them to serve church and country.
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Sermons on the Most Useful and Important Subjects, Adapted to the Family and Closet, Vol. 1
Funeral sermon for Rev. Samuel Davies (preached May 28, 1761) by Samuel Finley, centered on Romans 14:7–8. It urges moderation in judging disputable matters and living/dying unto the Lord.
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Sermons on the Most Useful and Important Subjects, Adapted to the Family and Closet, Vol. 2
Samuel Davies’ sermon on Christ’s mediatorial kingdom argues, from Pilate’s question (John 18:37), that Jesus’ kingship is spiritual and contrasted with earthly kingdoms.
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Sermons on the Most Useful and Important Subjects, Adapted to the Family and Closet, Vol. 3
Samuel Davies’ Volume III sermons on the hard path of salvation, the certain perdition of sinners, Christ’s sufferings, family religion, and practical Christian duty.
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Sermons on the Most Useful and Important Subjects, Adapted to the Family and Closet, Vol. 1 (1766)
Posthumous edition of Rev. Samuel Davies’s sermons (vol. I) with Thomas Gibbons’s preface and Samuel Finley’s funeral sermon. Published to aid Davies’s widow and children.
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Hymns Adapted to Divine Worship
1769 hymnal compiled by Thomas Gibbons: a two-book collection of adapted sacred hymns for public and private worship, drawing on Watts, Addison, Blackmore, Davies and others.
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