Author: BOWMAN (Thomas):
Title: The Principles of Christianity, As taught in Scriptures; Being Seven Discourses on Our Lost State in Adam. Our Recovery by Jesus Christ, And the Necessity of Regeneration and Sanctification by the Holy Ghost. To which is prefixed, A Letter to a Clergyman.
Description: Norwich: Printed by John Crouse; And sold by him; also by W. Eaton, at Yarmouth..., 1764. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], x, 76, stitched as issued, original wrappers; perimeters frayed, spine defective. Bowman is described on the title-page as "Vicar of Martham, Norfolk," but his theological sentiments are not strictly Anglican. In the "Letter to a Clergyman," he defends himself from what seems to be a charge of sympathy with Methodists: "I am so far from agreeing with the Methodists, (as you have rashly declared) that the peculiar Doctrines I detest and abhor; being fully sensible they are delusive and dangerous." The work was also published in London in the same year, but apparently a few weeks later. ESTC T66246 locates only two copies of this printing: the British Library and Cambridge University Library. It was reprinted in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1769, and in London in 1790.

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