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The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century Volume 2
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Theory of the Moral System: Including a Possible Reason why Sin Exists
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The moral system, with an historical and critical introduction. Having special reference to Bp. Butler's "Analogy." Designed as a text book, for academies and colleges. This book, "The moral system", by Ezra Hall Gillett, is a replication of a book originally published before 1874. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Gillett Ezra Hall was a clergyman, author, and educator. He became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Harlem, New York.
Background
Ezra Hall Gillett was the son of Ely Hall and Mary (Williams) Gillett. He was born on July 15, 1823, in Colchester, Connecticut. On his father’s side, he was descended in the seventh generation front Jonathan Gillett, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1630, and in 1636 settled in Windsor, Connecticut; and on his mother’s, from Robert Williams who settled in Roxbury about 1638.
Education
Gillett prepared for college at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut, then tutored for two years, and was admitted to the junior class at Yale in 1839. Graduating in 1841, he Entered Union Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1845, the last year as a graduate student.
Career
Gillett was ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church (New School) April 16, 1845, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Harlem, New York, from 70, and professor of political science at the University of the City of New York, now New York University, from 1870 until his death.
The arduous duties of a long and successful pastorate did not stifle the devotion to scholarly interests, which had been stimulated during his graduate year at Union Theological Seminary. Here, while serving as assistant librarian, he acquired a lasting interest in the library which at a later time, he was greatly to augment by beginning the McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology.
At New York University his duties included instruction in political science, constitutional and international law, and, at times, moral science and ancient history. Contact with the Van Ess Collection in the Union Theological Seminary Library aroused an interest in sixteenth-century German, which resulted in his earliest printed work, a translation of Luther’s commentary on the epistles of Peter and Jude, which appeared in 1859.
Gillett married Maria Huntington Ripley, of Brooklyn, October 15, 1851, and after her death in 1853, he married, June 19, 1854, Mary Jane Kendall, of Saratoga Springs, by whom he had two sons and one daughter.