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The Jonathan Parsons sermons, delivered in Lyme, Connecticut, and present-day Newburyport, Massachusetts, concern numerous religious topics such as salvation, the afterlife, and faith.

This bound group of around 20 sermons (330 pages) by Reverend Jonathan Parsons pertains to numerous religious topics, often related to redemption, salvation, judgment, the afterlife, and hell. Other topics concern faithfulness, the "reasonableness of religion," and faith. Some are part of numbered series. The entry on pages 65-67 is a postmortem sermon for John Kimbal, and the entry on pages 245-260 is a Thanksgiving Day sermon. Parsons delivered most of the sermons in Lyme, Connecticut, and present-day Newburyport, Massachusetts, between the 1730s and 1750s.