Item #26588 The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96. John Barnard.
The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96

The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96

Boston: Rogers and Fowle / D. Gookin, 1747. Very Good. Item #26588

Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen street, and by D. Gookin in Marlborough-Street, 1747. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); full contemporary Cambridge-style calf, unadorned spine in six compartments; [8],248pp. (A4 B-Q8 R4, collated and complete). Light wear to leather extremities, faint surface stretches to rear board, endpapers foxed, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in attractive early binding. Errata listed on [A4] recto, "The Author's Absence from the Press [having] occasioned some Errors which need correcting."

Popular collection of sermons by the colorful Old Light congregationalist minister John Barnard (1681-1770), who spent much of the 1740s writing and publishing prodigiously in order to stem the influence of the New Lights:

"Since therefore the Commandment of GOD is so exceeding broad, as to reach to us in all our Capacities, and Relations, and Designs to better us, as rational Creatures, to render our Lives comfortable to us here, and to make us compleatly happy hereafter, then it must needs be the truest Wisdom in us, thus to be religious" (p. 193).

ESTC W20493; EVANS 5905.

Price: $650.00