Townsend, Shippie

A PRACTICAL ESSAY, DESIGNED FOR GENERAL USE, IN THREE PARTS. Part I. Addressed to husbands and wives: being an answer to the two following inquiries. 1st. What is the most obvious meaning of the word church in the New Testament? 2d. How doth marriage convey, as in a mistery [sic], the union of Christ and the church? Improved to illustrate the honorable relation, endeared affection, and mutual duties of husbands and wives. With a song on marriage. To which is added an appendix, with some thoughts on education. Part II. Addressed to parents: being some thoughts on education. Part III. An inquiry concerning the case of children, with an exhortation to them. By Shippie Townsend. [followed by four lines from Titus]

Boston, (MA): Printed by Adams and Nourse, for the author, and sold by him, at his house in Cross-Street, and at their office in Marlborough-Street, 1783. First edition. 8vo. 20 cm. 60pp. Disbound. Old tidelines, particularly on title page, and overall toning to text. Upper right corners curled and some chipping to edges of last page not affecting text. EVANS 18214. ESTC W27788. Townsend a block maker who had once been a member of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, became a Sandemanian, a sect which preached loyalty to the King. This put him in conflict with the prevailing political sentiments in New England at the time of the American Revolution. He later became a Universalist. Item #65460

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