Thornwell, James H.:

THE NECESSITY OF THE ATONEMENT. A SERMON, PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, ON THE 1ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1844. BY...PROFESSOR OF SACRED LITERATURE AND EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

Columbia: Printed by Samuel Weir, at the Southern Chronicle Office, 1845. 72pp, disbound, light to moderate foxing. Two tiny wrapper remnants stuck to final page obscuring three letters of text. Good+.

Thornwell, whom Appleton calls "one of the ablest men that the south has ever produced...and in politics advocated extreme southern views," gives a discourse on the doctrine of atonement and "the two great principles" on which it rests: "the inseparable connection between punishment and guilt, and the admissibility of a surety to endure the curse of the law." FIRST EDITION. AI 45-6372 [5]. Not in Turnbull. Item #24398

Price: $125.00