The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: With the accomplishment of several of the prophecys, relating hereto. A sermon, at the lecture, in Marblehead, December 25. 1729. To which is added, an appendix, attempting more clearly to state, the true year of our Lord's nativity
Boston: S. Gerrish, 1731. Very Good. Item #25787
Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish, at the lower end of Cornhill, 1731. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); removed, remnants of old calf along spine; [2],66pp. ([A]-I4, lacking half title and final leaf (blank)); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Small loss to bottom margin of title page not approaching text, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound.
Lengthy Christmas sermon by the colorful "Old Light" Congregationalist minister of Marblehead, Massachusetts. After sixty-five pages of calculations, the orator finally concludes that "I cannot but look upon it, as more than a vain Conjecture, even, an established proposition, That Jesus Christ, our Blessed Saviour, was born some Time in October, An. J.P. 4711: Two Years, and two Months and some Days, before the common Aera" (p. 66).
Quite uncommon, we find no copies in the trade as of February, 2023, and just one in the auction record, from 1903.
EVANS 3389; ESTC W3732.
Price: $850.00