McDowall’s Discourses – Sermons by Pioneering Canadian Reformed Missionary and Pastor

M’Dowall, Robert.  Discourses of the Sovereign and Universal Agency of God, in Nature and Grace. Albany: Printed by Websters and Skinner, At their Bookstore in the White-House, corner of State and Pearl-Streets, 1806. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819, 10760 First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Book Condition: Very Good- Condition. Item Type: Book. Pagination: [1]-120 (starting with the Title page), 4 leaves with three pages of names of subscribers (blank on the verso of the last leaf), 1 blank leaf. Size: 8"-9" - Octavo (8vo). Collection of sermons on the doctrine of election by the first regularly sent Reformed missionary to Upper Canada (modern Ontario) and the first moderator of the Presbytery of the Canadas. In its original binding. The topic must have been a favorite of McDowell, described by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as “a strict Calvinist,” since he was known for having “engaged in a day-long debate on predestination with S