HISTORICAL SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESS OF UNIVERSALISM, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Buffalo: Steele's Press, 1843. 248, [2]pp. 16mo. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Light wear, scattered spotting. Good+. [offered with] SECOND SERIES. Leavitt. 1848. 16mo, original quarter leather [rubbed]. 248pp. Moderately foxed, Good+.
On "the planting and growth of Universalism in the State of New York." The First Series states that Reverend John Murray, "the father of universalism in America," began preaching in New York in 1770. The Second Series starts in 1818, a year which "furnished many decisive proofs of the progress of Universalism." The ministers, congregations, associations, disputes, and great events of this sect are detailed.
FIRST EDITIONS. Howes S673. Sabin 84282, 84283. Not in Eberstadt, Decker. Item #10980
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