1762 Octavo Pamphlet A Letter To Rev. Alexander Cumming To Show Him It’s Not Blasphemy To Say “No Man Can Love GOD, While He Looks On Him As A God Who Will Damn Him” By Andrew Croswell

Importance: Andrew Croswell was a Congregational minister and revivalist, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the son of Caleb Croswell and Abigail Stimpson. He trained for the ministry at Harvard, receiving a B.A. in 1728 and an M.A. in 1731. He was called to the Second Church of Groton, Connecticut, in 1736, and there he was drawn into the emergent world of evangelical Protestantism... Croswell was drawn further into the revivalist fold after the New England swing of the heralded English evangelist George Whitefield in 1740. As controversy began to mount around the practices of itinerants like Whitefield and his host of colonial imitators, Croswell rose to the defense of the new evangelism in his first published tract, 'An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Garden's Three First Letters to the Rev. Mr. Whitefield' (1741)... Croswell continued his defense of the revivals in one pamphlet after another in the 1740s...Notwithstanding the crumbling of his ministry during the years of the American