A  much  more  positive  and  aggressive  evangelical  ad-
vance was  the  organization,  on  February  2"],  1809,  partly
as  a  result  of  the  recent  preaching  of  Rev.  Dr.  Henry
Kollock,  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  of  a  new  church  in  Boston
which  was  soon  known  as  that  of  Park  Street.  With
the  countenance  of  Morse  and  Codman  this  body  was
made  illustrative  of  a  strict  type  of  Calvinism  in  its  doc-
trinal basis,  and  on  the  settlement  of  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  D.
Griffin, — a  pupil  of  the  younger  Edwards, — as  its  pastor
in  181 1,  its  eloquent  and  able  pulpit  presented  a  positive
Hopkinsian  type  of  theology  such  as  Boston  had  not  heard
before,  and  presented  it  with  great  power.  Such  preach-
ing was  sorely  needed,  for,  in  his  sermon  at  the  Ministerial
Convention  of  18 10,  Rev.  Dr.  Eliphalet  Porter,  of  Rox-
bury,  had  declared  of  the  doctrines  of  "  Original  Sin,  a
Trinity  in  Unity,  the  Mere  Humanity,  Super-Angelic
Nature,  or  Absolute  Deity  of  Christ,  and  the  Absolute
Eternity  of  Punishment,   ...    I  cannot  place  my  finger


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