1789 JOHN ERSKINE. Friend of Jonathan Edwards Warns against George Whitefield Veneration &c. Fine BindingA superb little item of post Great Awakening history. Dr. John Erskine was the premier Scottish defender, publisher, and promoter of both the American theologian Jonathan Edwards and the English open air evangelist George Whitefield. Many works published by Edwards were in fact first published in Scotland under Erskine's careful hand. Whitefield and Edwards were also both close and dear friends. When the First Great Awakening swept through the
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I being then 20 years old & in the 4th year of my clerkship to an Attorney
Tate and Brady
When his stove left his flapjacks burned on one side and raw on the other
And rest most affectionately yours in ye Faith an Fellowship of the Gospel
A fine framing pair
and much of this is attributable to some of the cunning military deceptions instituted at Baden-Powell's behest as commander of the garrison
A very nicely preserved set of the first edition
to the True Professors of the Gospel of Christ within the Kingdom of England in 1544
Observations on Surgical Diseases and Function of the Brian
and Robert Earl of Essex
it is addressed to Miss Elizabeth Urmston at Walmer