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Biographical Information and Archival Sources

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Sprague, William B., 1825, A Sermon, preached at The Annual Election, May 25, 1825, before His Honor Marcus Morton, Esq., Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts (Boston : Printed by True and Greene, Printers to the State, 1825), [photocopy and pdf digital file]

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Sprague, William B., 1826, “The Mediation of Christ, the Ground of the Believer’s Triumph,” in The American National Preacher, 1.6 (November 1826) 81-88 and 89-96. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1826, Wicked Men Ensnared by Themselves. A Sermon preached, December 16, 1825, in the Second Parish of West Springfield, at the Interment of Samuel Leonard, and Mrs. Harriet Leonard, his wife; the former of whom murdered the latter, and then committed suicide. With an Appendix containing an account of the horrid transaction (Springfield : Tannatt & Co., Printers, 1826), [photocopy and pdf digital file]

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Sprague, William B., 1827, Intemperance, a Just Cause for Alarm and Exertion. A Sermon, preached at West Springfield, April 5th, 1827, the Day of The Annual Fast (New-York : Printed by J. Seymour, John-Street, 1827) [photocopy and pdf digital file; sermon text : Psalm 119:158]

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Sprague, William B., 1827, The Character of Jesus Christ. A Sermon delivered June 13, 1827, before the Hampden Association of Ministers, and published by their request (Hartford : Printed by Goodwin & Co., 1827), [photocopy and pdf digital file]

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Sprague, William B., 1827, The Gospel the Wisdom of God. A Sermon preached at Salem, February 14, 1827, at the Ordination of the Rev. John P. Cleaveland, as Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, (Salem : Published by Whipple and Lawrence. T.R. Marvin, Printer, Boston, 1827). [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1831, “The Probability of Perdition Inferred from Present Impenitence,” in The American National Preacher, 5.12 (May 1831) 177-185. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1831, “The Wicked Surprised By Their Own Destruction,” in The American National Preacher, 5.12 (May 1831) 185-192. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1832, “Choosing the Good Part,” in The American National Preacher, 7.7 (December 1832) 106-112. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1832, “The God of the Christian and the god of the Infidel,” in The American National Preacher, 7.7 (December 1832) 97-106. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1834, A sermon preached in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, Sabbath evening, May 11, 1834 : and repeated by special request, on the ensuing Tuesday evening in the Second Reformed Dutch Church, in behalf of the Polish exiles lately arrived in this country (Albany : Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1834). [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1834, An Oration commemorative of the late General Lafayette, pronounced before the military and civic societies of the City of Albany, in the South Dutch Church, July 24, 1834 (Albany : Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1834), __pp. [photocopy and pdf file]

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Sprague, William B., 1835, Danger of being over wise : A sermon preached June 7th, 1835 in the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany (Albany : Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1835) [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1838, A Sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany, March 4, 1838, the Sabbath after Intelligence was received that the Hon. Jonathan Cilley, Member of Congress from Maine, had been shot in a duel with the Hon. William J. Graves, Member from Kentucky. (Albany : Printed by Joel Munsell, 1838), 15pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1839, “I Would Not Live Alway,” in The American National Preacher, 13.9 (September 1839) [129]-138. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1841, “A Mighty Saviour,” in The Foreign Missionary Chronicle, 9.12 (December 1841) 353-362. [photocopy in file; original in bound copy of this title, in Periodicals]

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Sprague, William B., 1846, The Life of Timothy Dwight (Edinburgh, IN: Puritan Reprints, 2007; [http://www.lulu.com/puritanreprints]; reprint of Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846;

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Sprague, William B., 1846, A Sermon, delivered on Sabbath morning, Jan. 4, 1846, containing Sketches of the History of the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, during thirty years from the period of their organization, by their pastor (Albany : Erastus H. Pease, 1846), 43pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1847, “On the Life and Death of Rev. Dr. Chalmers,” in The American National Preacher, 21.8 (August 1847) 173-189. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1847, A Discourse occasioned by the death of the Hon. Silas Wright, late governor of the State of New-York; and delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, September 5, 1847 (Albany : E.H. Pease and Co., 1847), 37pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1849, A discourse delivered February 25, 1849, on the completion of a century from the organization of the Congregational Church in Andover, Connecticut (Albany, Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1849), 32 p. 23 cm. Appendix. A. Letter from Samuel Lockwood [1721-1791] ; B. Graduates at College from Andover ; C. Clergymen from Andover ; Hymn, by Jerusha Foote. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1949, A Discourse Commemorative of the Late Hon. Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the State of New York : Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Sabbath Evening, April 20, 1848 (Albany : Joel Munsell, 1849), 34pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1850, A discourse delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa society of Bowdoin College, September 5, 1850. (Albany, Charles Van Benthuysen, printer, 1850), 44 p. 23 cm. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1850, A Discourse, Commemorative of the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., late Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Sabbath evening, January 27, 1850 (Albany, Erastus H. Pease & Co., 1850), 51pp. [pdf file]

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Sprague, William B., 1851, “The Power of Christianity,” in The American National Preacher, 25.1 (January 1851) 17-28. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1853, “The Ruling Passion,” in The Living Pulpit, or Eighteen Sermons by Eminent Living Divines of The Presbyterian Church, with a biographical sketch of the editor, by Geo. W. Bethune, D.D., edited and published by Rev. Elijah Wilson (Philadelphia : For Sale by Wm. S. Martien, 1853), pp. 63-92.

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Sprague, William B., 1854, “A Funeral Discourse,” [First published as, A sermon delivered at Dudley, Massachusetts : January 17, 1854, at the funeral of the Rev. Joshua Bates, D.D.], in The American National Preacher, 28.4 (April 1854) 77-86. [photocopy; page 85 defective]

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Sprague, William B., 1854, A Sermon delivered on Wednesday evening, June 21, 1854, at the Installation of the Rev. E. Smalley, D.D., as Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Troy (Troy, NY : A.W. Scribner and Co., Printers, Cannon Place, 1854), 48pp. Includes “Charge to the Pastor,” by Rev. E.E. Seelye, pp. 27-34; and “Charge to the People,” by Rev. E. Halley, pp. 35-48. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1855, Visits to European Celebrities (Boston : Gould and Lincoln, 1855), 305pp. [photocopy available online]

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Sprague, William B., 1856, An Address delivered at West Springfield, August 25, 1856, on occasion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Ordination of the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D.D. (Albany : Van Benthuysen, Printer, 407 Broadway, 1856), __pp. [photocopy and pdf digital file]

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Sprague, William B., 1858, A Sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Sunday morning, September 5, 1858, on the Completion of The Atlantic Telegraph (Albany : Charles Van Benthuysen, 1858), 32pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1858, An address delivered in the Mercer Street Church, New York, December 2, 1858 : at the funeral of the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler, ... (New York : D. Appleton, 1859) [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1861, A Discourse Delivered on Sunday Morning April 7, 1861, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, in Commemoration of the Late Hon. John McLean, LL.D., One of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (Albany : Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1861),

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Sprague, William B., 1861, Glorifying God in the Fires : A Discourse delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, November 28, 1861, the day of the Annual Thanksgiving, in the State of New York (Albany : C. Van Benthuysen, 1861), 58pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1862, A Discourse addressed to The Alumni of the Princeton Theological Seminary, April 30, 1862, on occasion of the Completion of Its First Half Century. With an Appendix, containing notices of the other commemorative exercises. (Albany : Steam Press of Van Benthuysen, 1862), 72pp. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., 1868, An Address delivered on the Occasion of the Funeral of the Rev. William James, D.D., in the First Presbyterian Church, Alb any, on Wednesday, February 19, 1868. (Albany, Joel Munsell, 1868), 22 p. 22 cm. [photocopy]

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Sprague, William B., undated, Objections to Benevolence Unreasonable,

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