Imprint Record

Sermons on Mode and Subjects of Christian Baptism.

• Imprint Number: 1804.024
• Title: Sermons, on the mode and subjects of Christian baptism, or An attempt to shew that pouring or sprinkling, is a scriptural mode; and the infants of believers are proper subjects of the baptism instituted by Christ; : with an examination of various objections particularly those contained in a course of anonymous letters to Bishop Hoadly. By Joseph Lathrop, D.D. Pastor of the First Church in West-Springfield. ; To which is added, an appendix, containing the history of the origin of the Anabaptists, in four letters, by Nathan Perkins, A.M. pastor of a church in Hartford.
• Sequence Number: 24
• Year: 1804
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Thomas Nicolson, for William Marshell
• Author: Lathrop, Joseph, 1731-1820), and Nathan Perkins (1748-1838),
• Notes: A reprinting of sermons by two Congregational ministers from New England; the collection was designed as a counter-argument to adult baptism, the work was first published in 1789 in Hartford, with a later Worcester edition in 1793; the timing of its publication suggests that Marshell contracted Nicolson to produce this edition in response to the evangelical activities of Baptist ministers that were a visible part of life on Virginia's Southside where he resided (Mecklenburg County); it is the only imprint known to have been issued under his name.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • William Marshell
  • Thomas Nicolson

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