Item #38767 A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN VIRGINIA, AT RICHMOND, MAY 3, 1792. BY DEVEREUX JARRATT, RECTOR OF BATH PARISH, DINWIDDIE COUNTY. Devereux Jarratt.
A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN VIRGINIA, AT RICHMOND, MAY 3, 1792. BY DEVEREUX JARRATT, RECTOR OF BATH PARISH, DINWIDDIE COUNTY.
A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN VIRGINIA, AT RICHMOND, MAY 3, 1792. BY DEVEREUX JARRATT, RECTOR OF BATH PARISH, DINWIDDIE COUNTY.

A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN VIRGINIA, AT RICHMOND, MAY 3, 1792. BY DEVEREUX JARRATT, RECTOR OF BATH PARISH, DINWIDDIE COUNTY.

New London: Richmond: (Virginia) Printed. Re-printed by T. Green and Son, 1792. v, [1 blank], [7]-31, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, title page soiled. Else Good+

"This sermon has been judged worthy of a second publication." Also reprinted in Bristol, Rhode Island and New Haven in 1808 and 1809. Haynes records only the 1809 New Haven issue.
"In a period of formalism and decay in the Church, he stood forth, at first almost alone, as the apostle of vital religion...Although deeply attached to the Episcopal Church, he was treated with coolness by many of its clergy, and attended few of its conventions. At one held at Richmond, May 3, 1792, however, he preached an earnest, evangelical sermon..." DAB. Evans 24431. Johnson 1247. Item #38767

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