Halyburton, Thomas. The Great Concern of Salvation, in Three Parts. Elizabeth-Town: Mervin Hale, 1815. [10467]
Full leather binding, lacks part of the title label, binding worn with cracked joints, 7 x 4 3/8 inches. Front paste-down filled with notes in brown ink, signature of Abigail Lloyd in several places. [i]-viii, [9]-139, [i], 1-198, [1]-119, with list of subscriber's names. The three parts have separate page numbers; the total is 457.
Part I. - A Discovery of Man's Natural State; or, the Guilty Sinner Convicted
Part II. - Man's Recovery by Faith in Christ, or the Convicted Sinner's Case and Cure
Part III. - The Christian's Duty, with repect to both Personal and Family Religion
With recommendations by Isaac Watts, John B. Romeyn, Alexander M'Leod, and James Richards.
Two editions were printed at Elizabethtown, NJ by Hale in 1815. This is the first, Shaw & Shoemaker 34849, matching the page numbers of OCLC 927026757.
Rev. Thomas Halyburton (1641-1712), “Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews [Scotland]…Halyburton’s doctrine as a whole is warmly evangelical; he expressly rejected the legalism of Richard Baxter, Daniel Williams and late seventeenth-century English Presbyterianism. His sermons were heart-searching and intensely practical.” – Dr. David C. Lachman, Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology.
