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Joseph Bellamy was born on February 20, 1719, in Cheshire, then part of Wallingford, Connecticut, the fifth child and fourth son of Matthew and Sarah (Wood) Bellamy. They were of English stock, though the name would indicate a French ancestor further back.
A remarkably bright farmer's boy, Joseph went to Yale, a few miles away, where he graduated in 1735 when he was but sixteen. After two years' study of theology, partly with Jonathan Edwards, whose ardent disciple he became, he was licensed to preach, though even yet only a few months over eighteen.
After preaching in various churches Joseph went in November 1738 to supply the pulpit in the newly organized parish of Bethlehem, Connecticut, then part of the town of Woodbury on the northwestern outskirts of the colony. A church was organized, of which he was pastor until his death over fifty years later. He was full of enthusiasm for the Great Awakening, and for the New Light theology, inaugurated by Jonathan Edwards, which had been the occasion of the revival, since it enabled the preacher to call men to repentance, as the older Calvinism had not. In this vein he preached with fervor, cogency, and success, first to his own parish, and from 1742 on, from place to place in and around Connecticut for a part of the year, during several years.
Bellamy was regarded as even more powerful a preacher than he was later as a writer. He was, however, domineering and censorious of any that stood in his way, with a biting wit, although he mellowed somewhat as he grew older. Settling down at the close of the revival, he began writing in defense of this new theology, his first notable work being True Religion Delineated (1750). Its important points were first, his definition of religion, in accordance with Edwards's theory of virtue, as love to God; second, his clarifying of the distinction between natural and moral inability which was the foundation of the New Light theology; third, a more humane theory of the atonement, developed from Grotius, which made it universal instead of being limited to the elect, and based it on the moral government of God rather than on the satisfaction of his offended dignity as a sovereign. This work brought him into prominence. Young men came to him to study for the ministry, and a sort of theological seminary grew up in this tiny backwoods settlement.
In 1758 appeared his work on The Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin. God, he argued, did not ordain, but only permitted sin, and that because he foresaw it to be the means to the greatest good. This work also attracted attention and aroused controversy. His last important theological work was a series of pamphlets from 1762 to 1770 in opposition to that curious anomaly, the Halfway Covenant, which the New Light theology had made superfluous. Bellamy died in 1790.
Joseph Bellamy has been listed as a noteworthy theologian by Marquis Who's Who.
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Joseph Bellamy was a man of commanding presence with a fine voice and a keen mind. He was a striking example of bold, independent thinking in early New England.
Joseph Bellamy married on April 27, 1744, Frances Sherman of New Haven, who died in 1785; in 1786 he married, as his second wife, a lady already twice widowed, whose maiden name was Abiah Burbank.
