SECOND STATEMENT OF FACTS, RELATIVE TO THE SESSION (AND PRESBYTERY) OF THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEW-YORK, AND THE WRITER, JAMES DOUGLAS.
New York: Published and Sold by N.B. Holmes...Samuel Marks, Printer, 1823. 186pp. Bound into modern plain wrappers. Lightly foxed, institutional rubberstamp at blank top margin of title page. Good+.
"Being excluded the communion of the Church, under false charges, without being allowed to speak in my own defence, either in the Session or Presbytery, I am thus obliged to vindicate myself through a medium, over which they have no controul." Douglas demonstrates the "tyranny of the Reformed Session, New-York, in excommunicating me for the crime of observing the word of God as the rule of my conduct."
The Church, says Douglas, has yielded to "carnal prudence" in relaxing an "ardent and well-directed zeal for the city of our God." The Church has tolerated Slavery; instead, it should "maintain a faithful public testimony against this 'highest kind of theft.' " Douglas denounces a variety of other Church activities, rebutting a litany of charges against him.
AI 12395 [2]. Not in LCP or Dumond. OCLC locates six copies under two accession numbers, as of October 2012. Item #29515
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