[Theology - American Imprints] Sammelband Volume of 11 Pamphlets on Christianity - Thomas Paine & Bible; Society of Friends;

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  Bound Volume with Early Manuscript Table of Contents Containing: 

  Watson, R. AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THOMAS PAINE, AUTHOR OF A BOOK ENTITLED, THE AGE OF REASON, PART THE SECOND, BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF TRUE AND FABULOUS THEOLOGY. Chambersburg (Pa.): Riddle & Lane, 1797. (80 pp.) 

  Cooper, William. THE PROMISED SEED: A SERMON PREACHED TO GOD'S ANCIENT ISRAEL, THE JEWS, AT SION-CHAPEL, WHITECHAPEL ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, AUG. 28TH, 1796. Philadelphia: Printed by Lang and Ustick, (1796). (32 pp.)

  ST. MARY'S SEMINARY AND CATHOLICS AT LARGE VINDICATED, AGAINST THE PASTORAL LETTER OF THE MINISTERS, BISHOPS, ETC. OF THE PRESBYTERY OF BALTIMORE, PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER, 1811. Baltimore: Bernard Dornin, October, 1811. (43 pp.)

  A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, APPOINTED IN THE YEAR 1795 BY THE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, ETC. FOR PROMOTING THE IMPROVEMENT AND GRADUAL CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIAN NATIVES. Philadelphia: Printed by Kimber, Conrad, & Co., 1805. (45 pp.)

  By A Citizen of Baltimore. CHRISTIANITY DISPLAYED: OR A RATIONAL VIEW OF THE GREAT SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF REDEMPTION AND SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TOGETHER WITH SOME PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS. Baltimore: Printed by Craig, Engles & Co., 1806. (54 pp.)

  M'Millan, Rev. William. A DISCOURSE ON THE FUTURE BLESSEDNESS OF THE SONS OF GOD. Pittsburgh: Printed by John Andrews, at the Office of the Pittsburgh Recorder, 1824. (15 pp.)

  Miller, Samuel. A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE UNITARIAN MISCELLANY, IN REPLY TO AN ATTACK BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER IN THAT WORK, ON A LATE ORDINATION SERMON DELIVERED IN BALTIMORE. Baltimore: E.J. Coale, 1821. (34 pp.)

  SUBSTANCE OF A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE REV. W.L. M'CALLA AND THE REV. ABNER KNEELAND, ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: IS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED ABSOLUTELY ETERNAL? OR IS IT ONLY A TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THIS WORLD FOR THEIR GOOD, AND TO BE SUCCEEDED BY ETERNAL HAPPINESS AFTER DEATH? Philadelphia: Printed and Published For the Author, By T. S. Manning, 1824. (40 pp.)

  A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYNOD OF KENTUCKY, RELATIVE TO THE LATE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERY: IN WHICH IS BROUGHT TO VIEW A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PRESENT STANDING OF THE PEOPLE USUALLY DENOMINATED CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS; AS TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND FACTS IN POSSESSION OF SYNOD. Lexington, Ky.: Printed by Thomas T. Skillman, 1823. (29 pp.)

  Richards, William. REFLECTIONS ON FRENCH ATHEISM AND ON ENGLISH CHRISTIANITY. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, for Morgan Rhees, 1796. (16 pp.)

  Hedding, Elijah. THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON, DELIVERED IN BATH, (MAINE) JULY 4, 1822, BEFORE THE NEW-ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Boston: Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, (1822). (32 pp.) 

   

   

  Condition

  With a full page manuscript statement of provenance to a blank preliminary page: "obtained...among other books in the attic of the Timothy Lee house in Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio, on Big Walnut - or Gehenny Creek at Central College.... in 1910," etc. There has been some neat professional restoration to the leather of the contemporary binding; the title page of the William Cooper pamphlet has had paper restoration but a couple of words are missing; "Christianity Displayed" with small corner piece missing from bottom of title page - with no loss of text; otherwise binding is solid and attractive and contents clean. 

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