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Outlines of Moral Science. By Archibald Alexander, D.D., Late Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New-York:, Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau-Street. : M.DCCC.LII. [1852] 1852

Seller ID: 18029

Archibald Alexander (1772-1851) a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, author. He was Licensed by the Lexington (Va.) Presbytery at the age of nineteen, and accepted the position of president of Hampden-Sidney College, in 1796. "His preaching was both awakening and edifying and resulted in many conversions... In the spring of 1807 Alexander was installed over the Pine Street Church of Philadelphia,, one of the largest congregations in the metropolis of the nation. The same year he was chosen moderator of the General Assembly, being one of the youngest ministers ever elected to that office...
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The Saints' Everlasting Rest. By Rev. Richard Baxter. Abridged by Benjamin Fawcett, A.M.

By: BAXTER, RICHARD.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New-York., Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street. D. Fanshaw, Printer. : circa 1840's 1840

Seller ID: 18024

Richard Baxter(1615-1691) "One of the greatest of English theologians." "One of the most voluminous of English authors, and one of the best."--New Schaff-Herzog Enc. Religious Knowledge, II:15. He was a leader on the Non-conformist side in the Savoy Conference. He left the Church of England 3 days before the Act of Uniformity was passed. His theology which modified the Calvinism of Baxter's day somewhat, made him unpopular with his contemporaries and caused a split among the Dissenters of the eighteenth century. We are pleased to offer this edition of Baxter&apos...
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Conflict of Ages: or, The Great Debate on the Moral Relations of

By: BEECHER, EDWARD.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston:, Phillips, Sampson & Co., : 1854 1854

Seller ID: 14377

BEECHER, EDWARD. The Conflict of Ages: or, The Great Debate on the Moral Relations of God and Man. Fifth Edition. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1854, 12mo. Bound publisher's brown cloth, rubbed a bit, fraying at spine ends and corners, small library tag at bottom of spine, engraved library bookplate, old library pocket and card, light foxing, light damp stain on bottom page edges. xii, 552pp. Edward Beecher (1803-1895) Congregational clergyman, college president, third child of Lyman Beecher and brother of Catharine Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe; was preside...
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Central Africa. Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856. By T. J. Bowen.

By: BOWEN, THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Charleston:, Southern Baptist Publication Society. No. 229 King Street. : 1857 1857

Seller ID: 16732

A narrative of several journey in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Yoruba country--present day Nigeria. The author's travels also touched parts of present day Ghana and Benin (Dahomey). The author along with reporting on the missions in the various countries, includes a wealth of descriptive detail about the people, countryside, customs, agriculture (including a few recipes), slavery and the slave trade, language, etc. Folding map of the Yoruba country (present day Nigeria). Bound publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, worn through cloth at spine ends a...
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Image for Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion: Held in the Sycamore-Street Meeting House, Cincinnati, from the 13th to the 21st of January, 1837. Between Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati. Taken Down by Reporters, and Revised by the Parties. [4 lines quotes from gospels]

Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion: Held in the Sycamore-Street Meeting House, Cincinnati, from the 13th to the 21st of January, 1837. Between Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati. Taken Down by Reporters, and Revised by the Parties. [4 lines quotes from gospels]

By: CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER and JOHN B. PURCELL.

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Cincinnati:, Stereotyped & Published by J. A. James & Co. : 1837 1837

Seller ID: 17379

Famous debate between Campbell & Purcell. J. J Haley notes in his Debates that Made History, that this was the only time in America when a Roman church official debated a Protestant pastor. Bound original tan paper over boards, spine nicely rebacked in modern acid-free tan paper with printed paper title label, original tan paper soiled and rubbed--worn through paper at all edges, damp spots on rear cover, untrimmed page edges, medium foxing throughout--heavier foxing on endpapers. Includes front & rear free-endpapers and flyleaves. Pencil name upside down on front free endpaper. Co...
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Image for <em>The Christian Baptist, Published Monthl</em>y. Edited by Alexander Campbell. [12 lines scripture.] Vol. VII.

The Christian Baptist, Published Monthly. Edited by Alexander Campbell. [12 lines scripture.] Vol. VII.

By: CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER.

Price: $425.00

Publisher: Bethany: [VA], Printed and Published by A. Campbell. : 1829 1829

Seller ID: 17329

Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ. "Believing in the power of the press, Alexander Campbell started the Christian Baptist in 1823, and built up a successful periodical, through which he disseminated his opinions. The paper was printed at home and its success encouraged him to continue the printing business uninterruptedly for forty years. In his paper he attacked missions, Sunday-schools, and sectarian societies as then conducted, carrying the war vigorously into the enemies' camp, and censuring the clergy in particular... From 1830 his ...
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The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the Author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol I. [& Vol. II.]

By: CARUTHERS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New-York:, Published by Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street, and Sold by the Principal Booksellers Throughout the United States. : 1834 1834

Seller ID: 16797

William Alexander Caruthers (c1800-1846). Born in Lexington, Virginia, he attended Washington College there, but did not graduate. With a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he practiced medicine in Savannah, Ga. until his death. He was one of the founders of the Georgia Historical Society. He published three novels all said to be somewhat imitative of Scott. The Cavaliers is based on Bacon's Rebellion or the Virginia Revolution of 1676, and centers around the activities of the Cavalier hero, Nathaniel Bacon and his opponents the Roundheads, led by Governor Berkeley. Boun...
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The Doctrine of Future and Endless Punishment Logically Proved, in a Critical Examination of Such Passages of Scripture as Relate to the Final Destiny of Man. By Reune R. Coon, Minister of the Gospel.

By: COON, REUNE RUNYON.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Cincinnati:, Published by J.A. and U.P. James, 167 Walnut Street. : 1850. (c1850, A.C. James, Stereotyper, Cincinnati

Seller ID: 17457

Reune Runyon Coon, 1815-1900, was an early and well-known Baptist minister in Indiana and Illinois, serving churches in both Peoria and Alton, Ill., amongst others. We offer his work written against Universalism: "It is the errors with which it stands connected which, measurably, if not mostly, estamps it with its most odious character. If the basis on which the system rests were the real atonement of Christ, applied by the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit--if such were the structure and relation of the system, to be it would seem much less hostile to the spirit and tenor of the S...
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Image for <em>The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D. </em> <em>Including in Detail His Various Travels and Extraordinary Missionary Exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West Indies: with an Account of His Death, May 3, 1814, while on a Missionary Voyage to the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. Interspersed with Numerous Reflections; and Concluding with an Abstract of His Writings and Character. </em> By Samuel Drew, of St. Austell, Cornwall. [3 lines quote--Milton]

The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D. Including in Detail His Various Travels and Extraordinary Missionary Exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West Indies: with an Account of His Death, May 3, 1814, while on a Missionary Voyage to the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. Interspersed with Numerous Reflections; and Concluding with an Abstract of His Writings and Character. By Samuel Drew, of St. Austell, Cornwall. [3 lines quote--Milton]

By: DREW, SAMUEL

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New-York:, Published by Lane & Tippett, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 200 Mulberry-Street. Joseph Longking, Printer. : 1847 1847

Seller ID: 17788

Life of Thomas Coke (1747-1814) Methodist Bishop, associated with Wesley from 1777. Wesley set him apart as a superintendent for America in 1784 and Coke presided over the Christmas Conference of the same year that formed the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. Coke also presided over Conference in both England and Ireland several times. He was an opponent of slavery and a lifetime promoter of missions, organizing the Negro Mission in the West Indies as well developing mission activity in Gibraltar, Sierra Leone, and Cape of Good Hope. Bound full tree-calf with red title morocco title l...
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Image for <em>A Synopsis of Didactic Theology.</em> By the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D.D. Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia.

A Synopsis of Didactic Theology. By the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D.D. Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia.

By: ELY, EZRA STILES.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, Published by J. Crissy, 177, Chesnut Street, Opposite the State House. (J. Crissy and G. Goodman, Printers) : 1822 (c1822) 1822

Seller ID: 17682

Ezra Stiles Ely, 1786-1861, an Old School Presbyterian minister. "He graduated at Yale College in 1803. His theological Studies were pursued under his father, the Rev. Z. Ely. In 1806 he was ordained, and installed as pastor of the church in Colchester, Conn., which he left some time after to become chaplain to the New York City Hospital. In 1811 the Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, became vacant. Its pulpit had been filled by the most eloquent ministers of the day, and it was necessary to choose a man of commanding intellect and power. The choice fell most wisely upon Dr. Ely....
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The Life of Cardinal Cheverus, Archbishop of Bordeaux, and Formerly Bishop of Boston, In Massachusetts. By J. Huen-Dubourg [pseud. from André Jean Marie Hamon] Priest, and Late Professor of Theology. Translated from the French By E. Stewart.

By: HAMON, ANDRÉ JEAN MARIE.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston,, James Munroe and Company. : 1839 1839

Seller ID: 3116

"The First Catholic Bishop of Boston, missionary to Penobscot Indians, Principle founder of Athenaeum, friend of President Adams, Advisor to State Legislature; one of America's noblest priests."--headline from newspaper clipping. John Louis Ann Magdalen Lefebre de Cheverus (1768-1836) French Cardinal, came to Boston in 1796 after having refused to take the oath prescribed by the French Revolutionaries. He worked for a year among the Penobscot Indians and thereafter spent 3 months of with them yearly. When he opened a subscription towards building the first Catholic church in ...
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Image for <em>The System of Theology Contained in the Westminster Shorter Catechism.</em> <em>Opened and Explained</em>. By Rev. A. A. Hodge, D.D. [& Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge, D.D.] Text-book of the Theological Summer School. Part I [& Part II].

The System of Theology Contained in the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Opened and Explained. By Rev. A. A. Hodge, D.D. [& Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge, D.D.] Text-book of the Theological Summer School. Part I [& Part II].

By: HODGE, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER and J. ASPINWALL HODGE.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, James A. Worden, Sec. of S.-S. Work, No. 1334 Chestnut Street. : 1886, 1887. 1886

Seller ID: 17432

A. A. Hodge (1823-1886) American Presbyterian, son of Charles Hodge, graduate of Princeton, college & seminary, missionary in India for 3 years, pastor 1851-1864, chair of systematic theology, Western Theol. Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. 1864-1877, Princeton Theol Sem. 1877-1886. "Hodge's distinguishing characteristic as a theologian was his power as a thinker... His theology of was that of the Reformed confessions."--Francis L. Patton in The New Schaff-Herzog Ency. Rel. Knowl., V:304. "His Outlines of Theology, which had extensive long-continued use as a textbook, is a d...
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Memoirs of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, A.M. President of the College in New Jersey. Compiled Originally by Samuel Hopkins, D.D. Revised and Enlarged by the Editors of Edward's Works, And now first published in a separate Volume, with numerous verbal Emendations. By John Hawksley.

By: HOPKINS, SAMUEL.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: London:, Printed for James Black, York-Street, Covent=Garden : 1815. 1815

Seller ID: 18031

This is the first separate publication of this biography of Edwards. It was often printed as a part of his "Works." Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) considered "The greatest philosopher-theologian yet to grace the American scene"--Perry Miller: Jonathan Edwards (1949). "Edwards was and was content to be, firmly in the tradition of New England Calvinism and the Westminster Divines... In Edwards, as in Augustine, there is a union of a highly intellectual and speculative spirit and an often ecstatic devotion to God-in-Christ... Edwards was a complete stranger to the separa...
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The Life of the Rev. Robert Newton, D.D. By Thomas Jackson. [5 lines scripture]--1 Cor. xv.,10,11. Revised by Thomas O. Summers.

By: JACKSON, THOMAS.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn.:, Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen, Agents, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. : 1855. (Stereotyped and Printed by A.A. Stitt, So

Seller ID: 17459

Robert Newton, 1780-1854, "a Wesleyan preacher greatly noted for his popular oratory... He was early brought under the influence of the Methodists, but was not converted until seventeen years of age... His appointment, in 1812, to London brought the extraordinary pulpit talents which he possessed more prominently before the public... The demand for his services became universal throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland. In England and Scotland he was eminently successful, especially in Sheffield, where it is said he broke the spell of Paine's influence which then prevailed among the...
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Denkstein zum fundfundsiebzigjahrigen Jubilaum der Missourisynode. [at head of title:] 1847.

By: MEZGER, JOHANN LEONHARD GEORG.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Mo.,, Concordia Pub. House, : 1922 1922

Seller ID: 14401

Mezger (1857-1931) Missouri Synod Lutheran minister & prof. Concordia Sem., St. Louis. We offer his history of the 1st 75 years of the Missouri Synod. Bound blue cloth, fraying top of spine, rubbed at edges some, covers soiled and spotted some, lacks front free endpaper, light tanning of pages, two small tears into edge of one page. VI (1) 311pp, b&w illustrations.
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Social Religion Exemplified, in an Account of the First Settlement of the First Settlement of Christianity in the City of Caerludd; in Several Dialogues. Written Originally by the Rev. Matthias Morrice. The Fourth Edition. Revised, Corrected and Abridged; with Occasional Notes, A Copious Index, and a Preface, Containing Some Account of the Author, by Edward Williams. For who hath despised the Day of small Things? Zech. vi.10.

By: MORRICE, MATTHIAS, and EDWARD WILLIAMS.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Shrewsbury:, Printed and Sold by J. Eddowes: Sold also by T. Longman and J. Buckland, Pater-noster-Row, and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London; A. Brown and Son, Bristol; and Smith, Sheffield. : 1786. 1786

Seller ID: 14490

Matthias Morrice (1684- ) minister to a dissenting congregations in Wales: Henllan, Rhydyceisiaid, and Glandwr. He was seized as a ranting preacher and delivered into the hands of a press gang. He was rescued from this situation by friend settled in the independent church at Rowell in Northamptonshire, where he spent the remainder of his days. He wrote an number of books, "But his principal performance is Social Religion exemplified, which was a work of time... It hath been said, and it is highly probable, that though the names in this book are feigned, many of the characters were real; a...
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Image for <em>Epistle of James, Practically Explained, </em> By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant. "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

Epistle of James, Practically Explained, By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant. "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

By: NEANDER, AUGUSTUS.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York:, Published by Lewis Colby, 122 Nassau Street. : 1852. (c1851). 1852

Seller ID: 17665

Johann August Wilhelm Neander, 1789-1850, church historian. "At first interested in speculative theology, he soon turned to Church history and taught this subject at Berlin from 1813 till his death... Unlike Mosheim, whose interest was in institutions, Neander paid most attention to person, and made it his aim to discover in Church history the interpenetration of human life by the Divine. A convinced Protestant, though eirenic in temper, he regarded outward ordinances, esp. the priesthood, as dangerous to Christian simplicity."--Cross: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (196...
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Image for <em>Epistle of Paul to the Phillippians, Practically Explained.</em> By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant.

Epistle of Paul to the Phillippians, Practically Explained. By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant.

By: NEANDER, AUGUSTUS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York:, Published by Lewis Colby, 122 Nassau Street. : 1851. (c1851). 1851

Seller ID: 17664

Johann August Wilhelm Neander, 1789-1850, church historian. "At first interested in speculative theology, he soon turned to Church history and taught this subject at Berlin from 1813 till his death... Unlike Mosheim, whose interest was in institutions, Neander paid most attention to person, and made it his aim to discover in Church history the interpenetration of human life by the Divine. A convinced Protestant, though eirenic in temper, he regarded outward ordinances, esp. the priesthood, as dangerous to Christian simplicity."--Cross: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (196...
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Image for <em>First Epistle of John, Practically Explained.</em> By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant. What Think Ye of Christ?

First Epistle of John, Practically Explained. By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated from the German by Mrs. H.C. Conant. What Think Ye of Christ?

By: NEANDER, AUGUSTUS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York:, Published by Lewis Colby, 122 Nassau Street. : 1852. (c1852). 1852

Seller ID: 17659

Johann August Wilhelm Neander, 1789-1850, church historian. "At first interested in speculative theology, he soon turned to Church history and taught this subject at Berlin from 1813 till his death... Unlike Mosheim, whose interest was in institutions, Neander paid most attention to person, and made it his aim to discover in Church history the interpenetration of human life by the Divine. A convinced Protestant, though eirenic in temper, he regarded outward ordinances, esp. the priesthood, as dangerous to Christian simplicity."--Cross: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (196...
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Image for <em>History of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.</em> By A. H. Redford, D.D.

History of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. By A. H. Redford, D.D.

By: REDFORD, ALBERT HENRY.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn.:, Published by A.H. Redford, Agent, for the M.E. Church, South. : 1871 1871

Seller ID: 17791

"More than a quarter of century has elapsed since the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The men who were prominent in the General Conference of 1844, the extrajudicial legislation of which body resulted in the division of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States into two separate and distinct ecclesiastical organizations, with but few exceptions have passed away... Since the division...a new generation has come upon the scene, who are not familiar with the circumstances that led to the separation. The object of this work is to place in a permanent and end...
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Category: 12mo