Nathanael Emmons

Nathanael Emmons, sometimes spelled Nathaniel Emmons, (April 20, 1745 – September 23, 1840) was an American Congregational minister and influential theologian of the New Divinity school. He was born at East Haddam, Connecticut.

Emmons graduated at Yale in 1767, studied theology under the Rev. John Smalley (1734–1820) at Berlin, Connecticut, and was licensed to preach in 1769. Both his parents were professors of religion, and he was the subject of an early Christian training. Emmons, however, never cared for labor, and intended in some way to escape it if possible.

Throughout his life, Emmons abstained almost entirely from alcohol, seldom drank tea or coffee, and ate simply and in moderate quantities.

Instructions to the Afflicted Hopkinsian Calvinism A sermon on the foreknowledge of God