Emmons. Sermons on First Principles and Doctrines of Religion printed 1800

Emmons, Nathanael. Sermons on some of the first Principles and Doctrines of True Religion. Wrentham, Massachusetts: Printed by Nathaniel and Benjamin Heaton, 1800. First Edition. [10541] Full leather, worn with the front board attached by one cord only, some loss of leather to the card boards and at the spine ends, maroon leather spine label present. Contemporary private bookplate, several old previous owner's signatures, title page and ffep detached. [i]-viii, [9]-510, text is complete. Tattered margins in the first few leaves, smudges and stains in the text. Errata printed on p. viii. Fair. Hardcover. We think the bookplate is that of Miss Hannah Woodward (1762-1838); she is buried in the cemetery at West Central St. in Franklin, Massachusetts. Twenty sermons on evangelical and Calvinistic themes, including on the Inspiration of Scripture, the Doctrine of the Trinity, The testimony of Christ to His own Divinity, Man's Activity and Dependence illustrated and reconciled, Love the essen