1798 RARE BAPTIST. First Edition Philadelphia American Baptist Church Discipline! Methodist and Considerations of the State

and Considerations of the State of Things

Daniel Merrill [1765-1833] served in the American Revolutionary War from 1781 until its close in 1783 and then spent the next six years studying for the work of the ministry at Dartmouth College

The present is a volume of his poetry

I’ve not seen this elsewhere and it’s great )

1798 RARE BAPTIST. First Edition Philadelphia American Baptist Church Discipline! Methodist and Considerations of the StateAn exceptionally scarce piece of early American Baptist history, the second being the very first edition of the Philadelphia, American Baptist Discipline. To my recollection, the only example we have handled of each of these works in 25 years. Samuel Jones [1735 1814] was educated for the Baptist ministry in Philadelphia, graduating in 1762 and taking the pastor at Lower Dublin [America] in 1763. He held that pastorate until his death. He is often