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EDWARDS, Jonathan, Jr. ALL DIVINE TRUTH PROFITABLE: ILLUSTRATED IN A SERMON PREACHED AT HAMDEN, JANUARY 11TH, 1792. New Haven: A. Morse, 1792. 8vo. Disbound. 42 pages. First edition. A Calvinist, like his more prominent father who had been President of Princeton University, Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) became pastor of the White Haven Church of New Haven, Connecticut in 1769. It is inscribed along the top of the title page: "Presented by the Revd- Mr. Morse of Chestertown to Thos. Adams Augt. 16, 1792." Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) had attended Yale and was a tutor at Yale in 1786 until he was called to the First Congregational Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1789. He was the eighth child of Jedediah Morse, and he is best remembered as the "father of American geography" and publisher of the first textbooks on American geography, Geography Made Easy, 1784. Most likely the printer A. (Abel) Morse was a brother, or at least a close relation.…