BELLAMY, JOSEPH (I 719—I 790), American theologian, was born in Cheshire (Conn.) Feb. 20, 1 7 19. He graduated from Yale in 1735, was licensed to preach when scarcely 18 years old, and from 174o until his death, March 6, 179o, was pastor of the Congregational church at Bethlehem (Conn.). The publication of True Religion Delineated (175o), won for him a high reputa tion. His influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher, Jonathan Edwards. His published works include The Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin (1758), his most characteristic work; Theron, Paulinus and Aspasio (I 759) ; The Nature and Glory of the Gospel (1762) ; A Blow at the Root of Antinomian ism (1763) ; and There is but One Covenant (1769).