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Three 18th c. religious tracts
Three 18th c. religious tracts
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Description
Heading: (American Imprints - Religion)
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Title: A letter, a funeral and a racist sermon
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Date Published: 1762-1797
Description: 3 items. (8vo) disbound. Comprising:
Croswell, Andrew. A Letter to the Reverend Alexander Cumming; Attempting to Show Him that it is Not Blasphemy to Say--No Man Can Love God, While He Looks on Him as a God Who Will Damn Him... Boston: D. and J. Kneeland, 1762. First Edition.
Emerson, John. All the Works of Christ in Creation and Providence, Executed by Infinite Wisdom and Goodness: Illustrated in a Funeral Sermon. On the Death of Mrs. Sarah Leavitt... Greenfield, Massachusetts: Thomas Dickman. 1792. First Edition.
Mason, John M. Hope for the Heathen: A Sermon Preached to the Old Presbyterian Church, Before the New-York Missionary Society, at Their Annual Meeting, November 7, 1797. New York: T. & J . Swords, 1797.
Croswell engaged in a battle of words with Alexander Cumming on the nature of God. Sarah Leavitt was the wife of Jonathan Leavitt, a prominent citizen in Suffield, Connecticut. Mason's sermon is filled racist and ethnocentric views of the time; he encourages missionary efforts among the Indians, to end their ignorance and the deplorable lot they are in.
Condition
Few pages detached or nearly so; wear, creasing, staining, soiling; ownership marks; good or better.
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Three 18th c. religious tracts

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