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Sunday, June 1, 2025

William Cooper's sermons on Predestination Recommended by George Whitefield

 

Famous Calvinist preacher George Whitefield wrote in a letter to his famous Arminian friend the preacher John Wesley the following:

But I referred you at the beginning of this letter, to Dr. Edwards' Veritas Redux which I recommended to you in a late letter, with Elisha Coles on God's Sovereignty. Be pleased to read those; and also the excellent sermons of Mr. Cooper, of Boston, in New England which I also sent you, and I doubt not but you will see all your objections answered.- from Whitefield's letter to Wesley HERE or in The Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield, page 640
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_Rev_George_Whitefield/3-mHU6GQqvwC?hl=en&gbpv=0


I'm not certain that the "Cooper" and the sermons of that "Cooper" that George Whitefield was referring to is the same person as the William Cooper of the following sermons. I asked Artificial Intelligence twice and one time AI said it was likely a "Thomas Cooper" and another time AI said it was a "William Cooper." But since I could only find the sermons of the William Cooper linked below, I therefore post them here on this blogpost. It's likely the correct Cooper, because it's in the right Era and right Location. Whitefield said it was  Mr. Cooper from Boston, and these sermons were preached from William Cooper from Boston to his church in Boston [according to the sermon collections themselves] .


The Doctrine of Predestination Unto Life, Explained and Vindicated: In Four Sermons by William Cooper


An 80 MB scanned file
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-doctrine-of-predesti_cooper-william_1765/mode/2up

or
What appears to be an OCR (optical character recognition) scan to html text version 
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N03677.0001.001

or
A large 93 MB scanned file
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-doctrine-of-predesti_cooper-william_1740/page/n6/mode/1up

or
A smaller 4.5 MB scanned file, but lower quality
https://archive.org/details/doctrinepredest00coopgoog/page/n8/mode/2up


 

 

 

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