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History of Redemption, on a Plan Entirely Original: Exhibiting the Gradual Discovery and Accomplishment of the Divine Purposes in the Salvation of Man; Including a Comprehensive View of Church History, and the Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecies. By The Late Reverend Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New Jersey. To Which are Now Added Notes, Historical, Critical and Theological with the Life and Experience of the Author, Printed by T. & J. Swords, for the Editor, New York, 1793, 573 pp plus index, full mottled leather, 8.5 x 5.5”, 8vo. In good condition. Lacking frontis. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing to corners and edges. Small abrasions to surface of leather, as to be expected. Leather remains soft and rich in color. Slight peeling at edges of rear boards. Light creasing down center of spine with small patch of loss at foot. Gilt tooling and ruling clean and bright. Old hand ownership on pastedown dated Oct. 1905. Evidence of a previous bookplate present. Dampness staining to pastedown and edge of fly. Fly nearly detached with worming to gutter. Light toning to edges of text block with minor instances of age stain. Free of known marginalia. Please see photos. Jonathan Edwards (the younger) (1745-1801) was an American theological and linguist. As a theologian, his fame rest upon his reply to Charles Chauncey upon the salvation of all men, in which he defended the orthodox evangelical doctrine. A great deal of religious controversy raged in New England during his lifetime. He supported abolition of the slave trade and of slavery, unlike his slave owning father. He wrote “Some Observations upon the Slavery of Negroes” in the Connecticut Journal .. it was this work along with his other sermons that were among the first, along with Samuel Hopkins’ writings, to question the freedoms of slaves in the New England ministry. COLR1793FLMX-1023
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