How, Thomas Y. A Vindication of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in a series of letters addressed to the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., in reply to his late writings on the Christian Ministry, and to the Charges contained in his Life of the Rev. Dr. Rogers; with Preliminary Remarks. New-York: Eastburn, Kirk, & Co., T. & J. Swords, and P. A. Mesier, 1816. First Edition. [10873]
Cloth spine, blue paper over card, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, original paper title label, worn with some loss of cloth, pages with deckled edges, the book as it came from the printer. xxvi., 492 pp., lacks the front free end papers (blanks). Thin crack to the spine, light foxing, old stain to back cover. Fair. Hardcover.
Thomas Yardley How (1776-1855), at the time this book was written he was the Assistant Rector of Trinity Church in New York City. How is responding to several of Miller’s works, specifically “Constitution and Order of the Christian Ministry,” an 1811 sermon on the subject of lay eldership, and the 1813 “Life of Dr. Rodgers;” which three, according to How, “contain matter which the sincere Episcopalian must regard, not only as inaccurate in itself, but as very pernicious in its tendency.”
How discusses the External Order of the Church; Charitable Allowance for Error; Charge of Aggression; Opinions of the Reformers; Calvinism; Particular Comparison of Dr. Miller with the Standards of his Religious Society, and with Himself; Examination of Dr. Miller’s “Life of Dr. Rodgers.”
