SEEMINGLY EXPERIMENTAL RELIGION, INSTRUCTORS UNEXPERIENCED-- CONVERTERS UNCONVERTED-- REVIVALS KILLING RELIGION-- MISSIONARIES IN NEED OF TEACHING-- OR, WAR AGAINST THE GOSPEL BY ITS FRIENDS. BEING THE EXAMINATION AND REJECTION OF THOMAS LEDLIE BIRCH, A FOREIGN ORDAINED MINISTER, BY THE REV. PRESBYTERY OF OHIO, UNDER THE VERY REV. GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S ALIEN ACT; THE TRIAL OF THE REV. JOHN M'MILLAN, BEFORE THE REV. PRESBYTERY OF OHIO, FOR DEFAMING BIRCH; THE TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF THE REV. PRESBYTERY OF OHIO, BEFORE THE VERY REV. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA, FOR THE REJECTION OF BIRCH; AND INJUSTICE IN PERMITTING THE REV. JOHN M'MILLAN TO ESCAPE CHURCH CENSURE. WITH REMARKS THEREON, ADDRESSED TO THE FRIENDS OF GOSPEL PROGRESS. MARE PARTICULARLY, THOSE OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMERICA. BY THE REV. THOMAS LEDLIE BIRCH, A.M.
Washington [PA]: Printed for the Author, 1806. 144pp. Disbound with scattered foxing. Dedication [page 3] trimmed closely in the right margin, costing several letters. Good+. Birch writes from "Point-Pleasant, near Washington, Pennsylvania, 3d October, 1805." He bitterly resents the "Inquisition" and "persecution" inflicted upon him by the Presbytery of Ohio..... More