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John Brazer was born on September 21, 1789 in in Worcester, Massachussets, the son of Samuel and Betsey Brazer.
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A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Cole, as Pastor of the First Congregational Society in Kingston: January 21, 1829 (Classic Reprint)
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Good Life: Extracted From the True Plan of a Living Temple, or Man Considered in His Proper Relation to the Ordinary Occupations and Pursuits of Life (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Good Life: Extracted From the True Plan of a Living Temple, or Man Considered in His Proper Relation to the Ordinary Occupations and Pursuits of Life Gence, and negligent self-culture, lies within those boundaries of right and wrong, which are well established and Clearly enough discerned. The extremes of good and ill desert are sufficiently obvious; fences against the public weal must be accurately described, or they could not be brought within the cog nizance of prescribed laws, but/it is an extremely small part of human conduct that can be thus accurately defined. All those duties, which, with no great propri ety of phrase, are said by moralists to be of imperfect obligation, such, for exam ple, as many of our personal and relative duties, our duties to our Maker, in a word, almost all our' conduct as moral and re ligious beings, is, in a great degree, liable to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. Thus Love to God, all will admit, is a duty of primal obligation, and it is no'less Clear that it is to be manifested in express acts of devotion to Him, and in tokens of good-will towards His creatures. But the questions in every individual case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Essay on the Doctrine of Divine Influence Upon the Human Soul (Classic Reprint)
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A discourse on the life and character of the late Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, delivered in the North church, Salem, Mass., Sunday, May 18, 1845
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John Brazer
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Poverty forced him to postpone entering college until he was twenty-one. His academic success at Harvard was so brilliant that he led his class in scholarship. After taking his degree in 1813 and serving an apprenticeship as a tutor he was appointed in 1817 professor of Latin. His study of theology did not narrow his unusually broad intellectual interests nor warp his sound and thorough scholarship.
Career
In 1820 John Brazer resigned his professorship and was ordained pastor of the important North Church in Salem, serving this charge until his death.
Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1836 and he served as a member of the Board of Overseers.
After a long illness Brazer died at Charleston, South Carolina.
Achievements
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Harvard greatly recognized John Brazer's contribution into a field of theology, so in 1836 he was awarded with the D. D. degree. His other achievement was in serving as a member of the Board of Overseers. His influence was broadened by contributions to the North American Review and the Christian Examiner. These covered a wide range of subjects, varying from "Ancient Modes of Burial of the Dead" to a review of Mill's Treatise on Logic. Brazer's lucid exposition of doctrines that have been considered Emersonian, before Emerson's own formulation of them, gives him a definite though minor place in the history of American thought.
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Good Life: Extracted From the True Plan of a Living Temple, or Man Considered in His Proper Relation to the Ordinary Occupations and Pursuits of Life (Classic Reprint)
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Essay on the Doctrine of Divine Influence Upon the Human Soul (Classic Reprint)
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A discourse on the life and character of the late Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, delivered in the North church, Salem, Mass., Sunday, May 18, 1845
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Sermons
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A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Cole, as Pastor of the First Congregational Society in Kingston: January 21, 1829 (Classic Reprint)
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- One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth Annual Record of the Ancient Honorable Artillery Co. Massachusetts 1826-27
- The Duty and Privilege of an Active Benevolence Address delivered Before the Seamen's Widow and Orphan Association, on Christmas Evening, 1835, in the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass.
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Good Life: Extracted From the True Plan of a Living Temple, or Man Considered in His Proper Relation to the Ordinary Occupations and Pursuits of Life (Classic Reprint)
Religion
John Brazer was of an Unitarian faith.
Views
His wide and critical acquaintance with contemporary literature and thought, his classical elegance of style and chaste delivery, together with an unusual devotion to the poor of the community, explain in part his enviable success as a clergyman.
Brazer's point of view was symptomatic of the forces which crystallized in Transcendentalism. His Dudleian Lecture (May 13, 1835) anticipates Emerson's Nature and Divinity School Address in denying that the great truths of religion can be ascertained through a priori reasonings or metaphysical assumptions. The truths of natural theology, he urged, can be attained solely in the manner by which other facts are determined, the inductive mode of reasoning. Thus he insisted that theology must be brought down to earth, and, like Emerson, found ample proof for the existence of God in "order, beauty, harmony, and the concurrence of means to ends. " For Brazer it was an inevitable conclusion that God must sit enthroned "within every heart".
This theory of man's transcendental intuitions of the perfect and absolute, essential states of human thought, was closely related to his pantheism. God's perfections, he remarked, are "recognized in every upspringing blade of grass, in every opening flower, in every passing cloud, in every beam of light". Brazer contended that there could be no necessary opposition between "earth and heaven, things seen and things unseen, things temporal and things spiritual".
Divine influence was not, therefore, supernaturally imparted to the human soul, and the proofs for the supernatural illumination of the human mind by the spirit of God were all to be accounted for on "principles strictly natural. "
Quotations: Brazer's individualism and egalitarianism led him to declare that the presence of God's spirit was "equally offered to all persons, in all places, and in all times".
Personality
Amiable and sensitive, he was small in person, "finely turned and moulded, " with a natural grace and fluency and with epicurean tastes.
Quotes from others about the person
According to a colleague he became one of the chief agents in "effecting a transition from the severe and ceremonial academical government of the olden time to an intercourse with the pupils more courteous and winning. "
Connections
On April 19, 1821, John Brazer was married to Anne Warren Sever.
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