Author: BRINE (John):
Title: A Treatise on Various Subjects: Viz. On the Original Purity of Human Nature. On its present Depravity. Of the Defects which attended the Doctrine of Morality of Morality , as taught by Philosophers and Poets. Of Regeneration, Conversion, and Sanctification. On the Difference between real Conversion, and the Semblance of it. On the Assurance of Faith. On the Life of Faith. On the Growth of Grace. Of Declension in the Power of Religion; its Causes, and the Ways and Means of a happy Revival under Decays of Grace. On the Temptations of the present Age; and Cautions against them. Of Communion with God, in the Course of that Obedience, which we are required to yield unto Him. Wherein various difficult Cases of Conscience are answered, as they occur, on the several Subjects treated of. The Second Edition.
Description: London: Printed for John Ward...; And Sold by George Keith...and John AEynon..., 1756. 8vo, 194 x 118 mms., pp. vii [viii "Books written by John Brine," 400, contemporary calf; lacks prelims, fore-margins of a few leaves wormed, various ink scribbles on early leaves and last two leaves, ink-stain on front cover which also slightly affects upper fore-edge, rear cover with remains of paper label. The Baptist minister John Brine (1703–1765) was the author of some 30 books. He was regarded in his lifetime as a Calvinist and a supralapsarian, as well as an antinomian, but he identified as a Baptist minister. The present work was first published in 1750. ESTC T96830 locates 4 copies of this second edition: BL, Bodleian (2); Union Theological Seminary. It was reprinted in 1766 with a cancel title-page. See "John Brine And The Glory of God," Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies 2021.

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