ARGUMENTS, NATURAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS FOR THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
Worcester: Printed and Sold by Isaiah Thomas, Jun, 1805. 12mo. 165 x 115 mm., [6 1 2 x 4 1 2 inches]. [4], 5- 121pp., plus 3 pp. ads. Bound in contemporary wooden boards, leather spine, marbled paper boards; binding paper a bit soiled, edges bumped, small part of wooden board showing, some light age toning to text. Signature of Samuel Gay of Cambridge written on the front free endpaper. Stamped “Ex Libris Wilson H. Kimnach” on front pastedown. With faults a very good copy of an Isaiah Thomas imprint in original American binding. First edition, rare Isaiah Thomas imprint. Timothy Flint (1780-1840), was an ordained Congregational minister, dissenter, missionary, teacher and a published author who sought to reinvigorate American Protestantism with a vision of the eternal Christ. This work, one of his early publications, attempts to remind Christians that mankind is immortal and that the soul is the vehicle imbued in each of us by God that will last forever. Christians have the power to determine whether our souls will live everlasting life in heaven or suffer the pains of hell for eternity. He is best known for his missionary travels and his oriented accounts of his missionary work in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. The appears to be Flint’s first published work and seems to be a rare book. The citation in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) reads in part “No Found. I have not been able to find a copy of this pamphlet.—Kilpatrick, p. 306.” No copy is listed in OCLC or NUC, although a copy has been traced to the American Antiquarian Society. Shaw & Shoemaker; American Imprints, 7881; Blanck, Jacob, Bibliography of American Literature, 6112. JT/DSC* (1078). Item #67856
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