Works:
Works by
(1632-1707)Samuel Torrey
| 1674 | "An Exhortation unto Reformation...." Torrey's first publication, his election sermon, establishes his reputation as one of the leading voices supporting reform of the era. Along with his subsequent publications, "A Plea for the Life of Dying Religion" (1683) and "Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity" (1695), it is a notable expression of the ideas and issues faced by late-seventeenth-century Puritans. |
| 1683 | "A Plea for the Life of the Dying Religion." Torrey's election sermon establishes one of the dominant themes of clergy during the period: that the original purpose of New England's settlement, the establishment of a "plantation Religious," has been undermined by the backsliding, or "Declension," of the Christians. |
