The Christian Journal or Common Incidents, Spiritual Instructors: Being A Series of Meditations on A Spring, Summer, Harvest, Winter, And Sabbath Day
Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1796. First American Edition. 12mo, viii, [1], 10–348 pages, bound in period full leather with spine label. John Brown’s The Christian Journal; or, Common Incidents, Spiritual Instructors is a late 18th-century devotional work arranged as a series of meditations on ordinary scenes and recurring rhythms of life: spring, summer, harvest, winter, and the Sabbath day. Brown, the noted Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian of Haddington, uses familiar natural and domestic incidents as occasions for spiritual reflection, moral instruction, and practical Christian contemplation. First published in America in Philadelphia in 1796, this edition reflects the strong transatlantic appetite for Scottish Presbyterian devotional literature in the early United States. A substantial early American religious imprint, appealing to collectors of 18th-century American theology, Presbyterian literature, devotional writing, and early Philadelphia printing.
Evans 30129. Top board and front free endpaper detached, rear hinge cracked, crack along spine, losses to spine, the endpapers have extensive pencil inscriptions, some rubbing and wear, else in good + condition. Item #336
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