A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings; Addressed to the Disciples of Thomas Paine, and Wavering Christians of Every Persuasion. With an Appendix, Containing the Author’s Determination to have Relinquished his Charge in the Established Church, and the Reasons on which that Determination was Founded . . . from the Ninth London Edition.
Saxton’s Village, Vt. Published by Sereno Taylor; Black, Cutler, and Co., Printers—Bellows Falls, 1824. 8vo (7.13 x 4.5 inches), original full calf (cobbled together somewhat from different stocks of leather), black leather spine label, gilt lettering, xxii, 345, [8], [1] pages. Rubbed and worn; foxed and browned throughout; a good, sound copy. Item #20912
An extensive justification of the Gospels and an attack on Thomas Paine, this English work here republished under a Vermont imprint by a Baptist preacher in Bellows Falls. With ownership inscriptions dated 1828, and later family pencil notes dated 1859-1861—the latter suggesting engagement with this unwieldy text. American Imprints 17987.
Price: $125.00