A LETTER TO THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL PAEDOBAPTIST CHURCH, AT RUTLAND IN VERMONT: TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COLLECTION OF OBSERVATIONS, HYMNS, LETTER, &
1794 · Hartford
by Roots, Peter Philanthropos
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1794. 156pp. [bound with:] Richards, William: A SERIOUS AND PLAIN DISCOURSE CONCERNING BAPTISM.... Lynn. 1793. iv,54pp. [bound with]: Emmons, Nathanael: A DISSERTATION ON THE SCRIPTURAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION AND ACCESS TO THE CHRISTIAN SACRAMENTS.... Worcester. 1793. 133pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked at an early date. Boards worn. Light foxing to texts. Good plus. Sammelband of three religious discourses on baptism. The first, by Peter Roots, concerns his conversion from Congregationalism to the Baptist denomination. Roots was the son of a Congregational minister; though ordained as a Congregational minister himself, he switched allegiances several years later and spent most of his life as an itinerant preacher and missionary. The second work - the rarest of the three - was originally printed in Welsh before being reprinted in the small town of Lynn, in England. ESTC locates only five copies, all of them in the U.K. The third work is by Nathanael Emmons, renowned theologian and the prolific pastor of the church in Franklin, Massachusetts. ESTC, W13508, T133595, W30888. EVANS 27637, 25449 (Inventory #: WRCAM45515)