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This photograph of G.B. Cheever was taken by Matthew Brady, c. 1861.

This photograph of G.B. Cheever was taken by Matthew Brady, c. 1861.

George Barrell Cheever is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

George Barrell Cheever is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

Review of Moses Stuart's Hebrew Grammar and Hebrew Chrestomathy (1829)

Studies in Poetry (1830)

The Removal of the Indians (1830)

Milman’s History of the Jews (1830)

Lowth’s Hebrew Poetry (1830)

The American Common-Place Book of Poetry, With Occasional Notes (1831)

The Select Works of Archbishop Leighton: Prepared For the Practical Use of Private Christians (1832)

Southey’s Life of Bunyan (1833)

Some of the Principles According to Which This World is Managed, Contrasted With the Government of God, and the Principles Exhibited For Man’s Guidance in the Bible: Delivered as an Address at the Religious Celebration on the Fourth of July, in Salem (1833)

The American Common-Place Book of Prose (1833)

God’s Hand in America (1841)

A New Year’s Sermon (1843)

The Elements of National Greatness: An Address Before the New England Society of the City of New York, December 22, 1842 (1843)

The Hierarchical Despotism: Sophisms of the Apostolical Succession Examined and Refuted (1844)

Lectures on the Pilgrim’s Progress and on the Life and Times of John Bunyan (1844, 1846)

Probationary Discipline (1846)

The Poets of America, With Occasional Notes (1847)

Ecclesiastical Discoveries of the Puritans (1848)

Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau Alp (1848)

The Pilgrim Fathers: or, The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, New England, in 1620 (1849)

Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency (1849)

The Hill Difficulty, and Some Experiences of Life in the Plains of Ease (1849)

Windings of the River of the Water of Life, in the Development, Discipline, and Fruits of Faith (1849, 1855)

Religious and Moral Anecdotes (1850)

A Plea for Children, and the Christian Sabbath, in New York (1850)

Deborah (1850)

The Scripture Estimate of Philosophy (1850)

The Arrangements in the Constitution of the Mind, For a Future Judgment and Retribution (1851)

Christian Melodies: A Selection of Hymns and Tunes Designed for Social and Private Worship in the Lecture-Room and the Family (1851)

“Here a Little, and There a Little” (1852)

Voices of Nature to Her Foster-Child, the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogies Between the Natural and the Spiritual Worlds (1852)

Introduction to Edwin F. Hatfield, St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope (1852)

The Law of Remorse and the Law of Repentance: or the Passage From Natural Revealed Religion (1853)

Sowing and Weeping: Tears and Sheaves (1853)

Deacon Giles’s Distillery, and Other Miscellanies (1853)

The Powers of the World to Come: and the Church’s Stewardship, as Invested With Them (1853)

The Century of Preparation, and the Means and Time of Fulfillment: A Sermon Delivered Before the Foreign Missionary Society of New-York and Brooklyn, April 9th, 1854 (1854)

The Historical and Legal Judgment of the Old Testament Scriptures Against Slavery (1855-1856)

Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper (1856)

God Against Slavery: and the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as a Sin Against God (1857)

The Christian’s Duty, in a Time of Revival: Being a Sermon, Preached by Rev. Geo. B. Cheever, D.D., in the Church of the Puritans, Union Square, Sabbath, April 4th, 1858 (1858)

The Fire and Hammer of God’s Word Against the Sin of Slavery (1858)

The Commission From God, of the Missionary Enterprise, Against the Sin of Slavery; and the Responsibility of the Church and Ministry for its Fulfilment: An Address (1858)

Right of the Bible in Our Public Schools (1859)

The Curse of God Against Political Atheism: With Some of the Lessons of the Tragedy at Harper’s Ferry: A Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Puritans, New York, on Sabbath Evening, Nov. 6, 1859 (1859)

The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding Demonstrated from the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures (1860)

The Right of Conscience Towards God in the Citizens of the United States and the Violation of that Right by the Senate in the Imprisonment of Thaddeus Hyatt: A Discourse (1860)

The Salvation of the Country Secured by Immediate Emancipation: A Discourse (1861)

Rights of the Coloured Race to Citizenship and Representation; and the Guilt and Consequences of Legislation Against Them: A Discourse Delivered in the Hall of Representatives of the United States, in Washington, D.C., May 29, 1864 (1864)

Protest Against the Robbery of the Colored Race by the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution (1866)

Impartial Suffrage a Right; and the Infamy of the Revolution Against it in the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution (1866)

"Pictorial Life," or, Man's Life; Setting Forth His Nature, Views, Harmonies and Contrasts, Virtues and Vices, Restraints, Temptations, Remedies, Victories, Responsibilities to Himself, His Fellow-Men, and His Saviour, For Time and Eternity: "A Life Study," Some Portions of the Book a Child May Understand, There are Others Which a Man May Study With Increasing Interest and Profit All His Life (1870)

The Prose Writers of America (1876)

Faith, Doubt, and Evidence: God’s Vouchers for His Written Word, With Critical Illustrations From the Autobiography of Dr. Franklin (1881)

The Death Penalty (1881)

God’s Timepiece For Man’s Eternity (1883)

The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country: A Christian Allegory of the Sea (1885)

Memorabilia of George B. Cheever, D.D., Late Pastor of the Church of the Puritans, Union Square, New York, and of His Wife, Elizabeth Wetmore Cheever, In Verse and Prose (1890)


This 2-part article appeared in the October 1855; and January, April and July 1856 issues of Bibliotheca Sacra.