OF REV. GUSTAVUS F. DAVIS, D. D., LATE PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, HARTFORD, CT. WITH SIX SERMONS ON THE PECULIAR SENTIMENTS OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION, PREACHED BY HIM BEFORE HIS CONGREGATION, 1834-5. BY ABIGAIL L. DAVIS. HARTFORD: CANFIELD AND ROBINS. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1837, BY ABIGAIL L. DAVIS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. MEMOIR. In presenting to the Christian public some account of the subject of the following memoir, the widow, in whose name it issues from the press, feels that she need offer no other reason than that many persons, who were well acquainted with the history of the deceased, often expressed to him their strong desire that he would prepare an account of his life, and leave it for the use of his friends, and for the benefit of others who should live after him. In compliance with these wishes, and in hope that some might be encouraged by it to make efforts for their personal improvement and usefulness, and supposing that if he were removed by the hand of death from his professional labors, while his family specially needed his pecuniary assistance, they might derive some emolument from its publication, he was induced to commit to writing his early history, and the principal events of his life. The reason which more than any other prevailed with him was the hope, that, if his biography should ever be given to the world, it might be the occasion of leading some to adore the riches of divine grace, to |