Thomson, John:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, AND THE AUTHORITY OF CHURCH JUDICATORIES ESTABLISHED ON A SCRIPTURE FOUNDATION: AND THE SPIRIT OF RASH JUDGING ARRAIGNED AND ... A very scarce imprint deriving from the Old Side-New Side Controversy that resulted in a split in the Presbyterian Church during the First Great Awakening. Thomson, a pastor from south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an Old Side opponent of the new beliefs that emerged during the Great Awakening, here refutes several of arguments and accusations put forth by ministers supporting the New Side. One of the last of Bradford's Philadelphia imprints. The ESTC locates only four copies, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library Company of Philadelphia, Union Theological Seminary, and Yale. Not in Hildeburn.

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