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Preparation of the Text

The text of Maltby Gelston is reproduced in this edition as he wrote it in manuscript form. That it may be presented in manner faithful to the original and in a way sensible to modern readers, a number of minor, technical alterations have been made:

1. Spelling is standardized to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. This means little more than excising unnecessary vowels from certain words like the “u” from “colour” or normalizing words like “indifferency” to “indifference” or “compleat” to “complete.”

2. Punctuation in Gelston’s manuscript is erratic and often inconsistent, particularly with respect to the use (or overuse) of commas—something quite common to this historical period. Such overuse is regularized. In addition, the editors have taken care to maintain all of Gelston’s sentence structures and paragraph divisions.

3. Gelston’s citation of Scripture requires minimal standardization. This means little more than completing abbreviations to biblical book references.

4. Minor typographical errors or obscure markings on the page, of which there are few, are also corrected without annotation. Those sentences and paragraphs that are crossed out in Gelston’s manuscript are provided in the citations where they clearly contribute to the development of the author’s thought(s).

5. Gelston references a number of secondary sources without citation. Insofar as they can be traced, they are cited in the footnotes.

6. Gelston’s manuscript contains a substantial supplement to the main text containing extended answers to certain questions he thought required further explanation. For the sake of the reader all supplemental material is cited in the footnotes.

7. Finally, all questions have been keyed to the corresponding page numbers in the original manuscript and appear in brackets as follows: Question 1. [2].

Acknowledgements

We owe a monumental debt of gratitude to a number of friends and colleagues who helped us produce this work: Robert Caldwell, Oliver Crisp, David Kling, and Doug Sweeney. We are particularly grateful to Ken Minkema of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University, who gave of his time and unmatched expertise to help shape this project and who also kindly agreed to author the preface for this work. Special thanks also to Gloria Thorne of the Sherman Historical Society who secured a considerable number of important manuscript resources for us and whose enthusiasm for the project carried us through in the final stages of editing. Finally, we would like to thank the staff at Yale University’s Sterling and Beinecke Library’s for their kind assistance in procuring Gelston’s manuscript with great punctuality, precision, and care. Our families were an immeasurable source of support throughout this project. To them we owe far more thanks than could possibly be expressed here. Many thanks to the editor’s of the following journals for generously permitting select portions of the following articles to be republished here:

S. Mark Hamilton and Joshua R Farris, “The Logic of Reparation: Contemporary Restitution Models of Atonement, Divine Justice, and Somatic Death.” Irish Theological Quarterly [online first: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021140017742804] 83.1 (Feb 2018).

S. Mark Hamilton, “Jonathan Edwards, Anselmic Satisfaction, and God’s Moral Government.” International Journal of Systematic Theology 17.1 (2015) 1–22.

S. Mark Hamilton, “Jonathan Edwards on the Atonement.” International Journal of Systematic Theology 15.4 (2013) 394–415.

SMH, JRF, & RLB

January 2019

Soli Deo Gloria

New England Dogmatics

A Systematic Collection of Questions and Answers in Divinity by Maltby Gelston (1766–1865)

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Names: Gelston, Maltby, 1766–1865, author. | Boss, Robert L., editor. | Farris, Joshua R., editor. | Hamilton, S. Mark, editor. | Minkema, Kenneth P., foreword.

Title: New England dogmatics : a systematic collection of questions and answers in divinity by Maltby Gelston (1766–1865) / edited by Robert L. Boss, Joshua R. Farris, and S. Mark Hamilton.

Description: Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: isbn 978-1-61097-931-3 (paperback) | isbn 978-1-4982-8603-9 (hardcover) | isbn 978-1-5326-3776-6 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Gelston, Maltby, 1766–1865 | New England theology | Calvinism | Edwards, Jonathan, 1703–1758—Influence | New England—Church history | Reformed Church—Doctrines | Theology—United States—History | Theology, Doctrinal

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