1801 Baptist Robert Hall, Unbelief Ruins Society, Christians Enhance It
Hall, Robert. Modern Infidelity Considered with respect to its Influence on Society : in a Sermon, preached at the Baptist Meeting, Cambridge. Charlestown: Printed and Sold by Samuel Etheridge, 1801. First American, from the Third English Edition. [11632] Sewn into a new acid-free wrapper, 8 x 5 inches, 55 pp., several lines with pencil underlining. Printed in old font. Good. Pamphlet. See Starr, A Baptist Bibliography, no. H766 for a later edition. This edition not in Starr. The text is Ephesians 2:12, "Without God in the world." "...the more immediate object of this discourse, which, as has already been intimated, is not so much to evince the falsehood of skepticism as a theory, as to display its mischievous effects, contrasted with those which result from the belief of a Deity and a future state." - p. 12. Robert Hall (1764-1831), “one of the most eminent of modern divines.” – Allibone. An English Baptist, the son of a Baptist minister, and something of a child prodigy. “Before he w