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Samuel Miller An Essay on the Warrant, Nature and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church
New York: Jonathan Leavitt; Boston: Crocker & Brewster VG for age. Wear to extremities. Pages clean except for occasional markings. Binding sound. Private library number to lower spine. Owner's stamp to fep. General rubbing especially to spine.
VERY RARE. 1831. First Edition. Preface by the author dated April 20, 1831 at Princeton. Full LEATHER over boards. Gilt lettering on red label to spine. Hardcover. 322pp. Collectors! Samuel Miller was born in 1769. He completed his theological studies with Charles Nisbet, president of Dickinson College. Samuel was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and in 1806 was named moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and for several years also served as its official historian. Miller was appointed professor of church history and government at the newly established Princeton Theological Seminary. While teaching and preaching, he continued to write and publish. He wrote a memoir of his mentor, Charles Nisbet, in 1840, penned a life of Jonathan Edwards and published numerous speeches and sermons on various topics. He continued in his teaching position at the Princeton Theological Seminary until his death on January 7, 1850.
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140.00 USD
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