[Rarebooks] OFFER: RARE 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH PURITAN PUBLICATION.

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BAXTER, RICHARD: TWO TREATISES THE FIRST OF DEATH, ON I COR. 15:26, THE 
SECOND OF JUDGMENT on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11. Printed for Nevil Simmons... 1672 
Description: [5], 32, [4], 159 p., [16], 174 Pp. Each treatise has special 
t.p. and separate paging. Wing; B1442; Arber's Term cat. I 106. A very rare 
hortatory work by Baxter, which was never reprinted. The full title of the 
second is: "A Sermon of Judgement Preached at [St.]  Pauls before the 
Honourable Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London Decemb. 17. 1654. 
and now enlarged." Baxter was a puritan evangelist whose first church was 
in Kidderminster, in the midlands. He functioned as a spiritual center for 
evangelistic work among his parishioners by keeping himself, through daily 
meditation and prayer, open to the lord's work and himself as an ego, in 
the service of his mission. His book titled "the Reformed Pastor" continues 
to have influence on modern evangelists. His contemporary influence was 
also very strong. When John Eliot finished printing the first Indian Bible, 
his next major work was a translation of Baxter's "Call to the Unconverted" 
into the same language. Many consider him a Protestant "Saint". Of our 
text, only these copies are recorded, at OCLC, in the USA, [CGU and CLU] in 
the UK, [NLW]. COPAC adds the BL and Manchester, however, the Bodleian also 
has a copy. The BL copy is lacking the second treatise. This copy has been 
rebound no later than the 18th century in full blue paper with a hand 
printed title on paper affixed, as well as a small second inked paper with 
the number 750 on it. This copy collates as lacking a leaf at the 
beginning. There are two leaves, one with the general title page, and one 
with that for the first treatise before the first enumerated pagination 
[32]. Thus a leaf is lacking. There is an extra cognate blank leaf before 
the second title page, unnoted in the published paginations. Otherwise all 
paginations are as has been elsewhere reported. Both free end papers are 
missing. The rear inner board was used for practice in writing in an 18th 
century hand. It is a very clean, well-printed, tight copy, at least Very 
Good. $1750.00

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