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Samuel Austin was born on October 7, 1760 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States to Samuel and Lydia (Wolcott) Austin.
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Samuel Austin was born on October 7, 1760 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States to Samuel and Lydia (Wolcott) Austin.
After the Revolutionary War, in which, although but sixteen years old, Samuel Austin served as a substitute for his father, he taught school and later studied law with Judge Charles Chauncey of New Haven. When twenty-one years old he entered the sophomore class at Yale, graduating in 1783. His interest having turned from law to religion, he studied theology under Jonathan Edwards, the younger, then a pastor in New Haven.
For a time Samuel Austin was principal of a newly formed academy in Norwich, Connecticut Called to the Fair Haven Church, New Haven, in 1786, he was ordained its pastor on November 9. His stay in New Haven was short. Dissatisfied with conditions in his church and especially with its adherence to the half-way covenant to which he was vigorously opposed, he asked for dismissal, which was granted by ecclesiastical council, January 19, 1790. Immediately he was called to Worcester, Massachussets, where he was pastor of the First Congregational Church for twenty-five years.
In 1815 he was persuaded to accept the presidency of the University of Vermont, which had been closed during the war with Great Britain. His church first granted him leave of absence, but on December 23, 1818, the pastoral relation was dissolved. For six years he worked with reasonable success to rehabilitate the University, but he was not happy out of the ministry, and, resigning in March 1821, he took charge of the Congregational church in Newport. In 1825, his health failing, he resigned, and later sank into a condition of religious melancholy which resulted in his death.
His most important work was done in Worcester, but his influence extended beyond the city. He was instrumental in organizing the General Association of Massachusetts Ministers and the Massachusetts Missionary Society.
He combated the views of the Baptists in An Examination of the Representations and Reasonings Contained in Seven Sermons Lately Published by the Rev. Daniel Merrill, on the Mode and Subjects of Baptism (1805); in Mr. Merrill's Defensive Armor Taken from Him (1806); and in A View of the Economy of the Church of God Particularly in Regard to the Covenants (1807).
In sermons delivered on special occasions, he took a decided political stand. A Sermon Preached at Worcester on the Annual Fast, April 11, 1811, severely arraigns Thomas Jefferson, and The Apology of Patriots, or the Heresy of the Friends of the Washington and Peace Policy Defended (1812), is a defense of those who disagreed with the policies of the party then in power, especially respecting war with Great Britain. Numerous other sermons and addresses of his were published.
He was the author of Dissertations upon Several Fundamental Articles of Christian Theology (1826), and editor of The Works of President Edwards, eight volumes (1808-9), to which is prefixed a memoir of Edwards's life, and annotations. He also published an American edition of Rev. Thomas Haweis's Impartial and Succinct History of the Revival and Progress of the Church of Christ.
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Theologically Samuel Austin was of the school of Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins, and none was a more effective champion of orthodoxy against the Unitarian heresy which threatened to spread over the commonwealth.
Samuel Austin can be described as tall, erect, well-proportioned and courtly in appearance, with a face quickly expressive of his emotions, widely informed and with unusual command of language, animated and often vehement in delivery, he became known as one of the ablest preachers of his day.
On September 14, 1788 Samuel Austin married Jerusha, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hopkins of Hadley, Massachussets.