McClure, A. Wilson. Lectures on Ultra-Universalism. Boston: Peirce and Parker, 1833. Second Edition. [10672]
Cloth spine, plain green paper boards, original printed title label to front, 6 x 4 inches. Binding is tight but quite soiled and staine, with some cloth torn near the bottom of the spine. 1833 owner's signature on the ffep. 108 pages, foxed. Fair. Hardcover.
"The Author disclaims to have ridiculed Universalism. It is essentially ridiculous, and he has attempted nothing farther than to expose it as it is. The result of his labor surprised himself: for as he commenced his investigation, he was not aware of the astonishing absurdity of a system so extensively received. When compared with the teachings of enlightened reason, and especially when viewed in contrast with the statements of the Bible, it becomes a mass of intolerable nonsense." - Preface.
“This work is one of the keenest, and most logical satires upon Universalism ever issued from the New England press. We doubt whether a work was ever published in this country, which has been a source of so much mortification, and inextricable uneasiness to the Universalists, as these Lectures. We advise those who have not read them to avail themselves of the first opportunity.” – Zion’s Herald.
Alexander Wilson M'Clure (1808-1865), was the author of several books on colonial American Puritans, as well as the book The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible. He was the editor of the Christian Observatory.
