An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

As also on the Nature and Consequences of Spiritual Blindness: And the Nature and Effects of Divine Illumination.

by Joseph Bellamy, A.M. 

Boston:  S. Kneeland, 1762 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Leatherbound covers are mostly clean, with blind tooled border.  Corners are firm.
• Spine has red label with gilt text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is expertly rebound.  
• Original feps have an owner's mark.
• Interior is tanned throughout, some light edgewear to final sheets, a few small corners turned in 1/4".  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.0116

254 pages. 4 x 6.5 inches

A very good copy, expertly restored, of this volume from 18th century Connecticut Congregationalist pastor and preacher Joseph Bellamy (1719-1791).  Full calf binding, period appropriate pastedowns and feps.

Joseph Bellamy was a disciple of Jonathan Edwards and one of the "Architects of the New Divinity," a branch of the New Light movement that came out of the Great Awakening.  A proponent of education for both clergy and laity, Bellamy taught and preached for a half century out of his rural Bethlehem, Connecticut church, training fifty ministers and founding possibly the first American Sunday school.

This book also has its place in the history of printing in the American colonies.  Samuel Kneeland (1697-1769), who worked in Queen Street, opposite to the Probate Office, was the nephew through his mother of Samuel Green, the head of a dynasty of printers that dominated the New England trade until the early eighteenth century.  Kneeland most likely had apprenticed with his uncle Bartholomew Green.  In the early 1720s, Kneeland married Mary Alden and founded his own family of printers  In time, his sons John and Daniel would establish themselves as independent printers.  Kneeland acted as printer for Jonathan Edwards; this association could explain how he came to print Bellamy's work. 

Last, the book has a notable provenance.  Inscribed on the inside end paper is the name Chandler Robbins and the year 1762.  Chandler Robbins (1738-1799) was, like Bellamy, a graduate of Yale College (1756).  Robbins went on to be a minister and preacher in Boston.  

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