THE CLEAR SUNSHINE OF THE GOSPEL BREAKING FORTH UPON THE INDIANS IN NEW-ENGLAN
1865 · New York
by Shepard, Thoma
New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin, 1865. [20],56pp. Half title. Modern three-quarter black morocco and blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Front hinge worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 250 copies, initialed by the great American bibliographer, Joseph Sabin. The present text, number ten in Sabin's "Quarto Series," was originally printed in London by R. Cotes in 1648. All of the Sabin reprints are quite rare.
Despite an initial hesitancy by the Puritan community to minister to the Indians of Massachusetts, outreach efforts, led by John Eliot, began slowly in the latter half of the 1640s. Eliot, in some ways a marginalized Purtian leader, was assisted by Thomas Shepard, minister of the church in Cambridge and one of the colony's early luminaries. This account summarizes the efforts to civilize the Indians, and includes a list of rules agreed to by Indian leaders, an order of the General Court of Boston, and an epistle on the meaning of the Indians' spiritual awakening. GOODSPEED 122:937. SABIN 80206. (Inventory #: WRCAM34461)
Despite an initial hesitancy by the Puritan community to minister to the Indians of Massachusetts, outreach efforts, led by John Eliot, began slowly in the latter half of the 1640s. Eliot, in some ways a marginalized Purtian leader, was assisted by Thomas Shepard, minister of the church in Cambridge and one of the colony's early luminaries. This account summarizes the efforts to civilize the Indians, and includes a list of rules agreed to by Indian leaders, an order of the General Court of Boston, and an epistle on the meaning of the Indians' spiritual awakening. GOODSPEED 122:937. SABIN 80206. (Inventory #: WRCAM34461)