THE PROTESTANT DISSENTER'S CATECHISM, containing I. A Brief History of the Nonconformists; II. The Reasons of the Dissent from the National Church: Designed to Instruct and Establish Young Person s among the Dissenters in the Principles of Nonconformity

Palmer, Rev. Samuel

Edité par W. Button & Son, London, 1818

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Printed by Smith (Bath) with blank leaves interleaved. 16mo: 83, [1, ads] pp. In the publisher's dark greeen sand-grain cloth, with overall ribbon-embossed lobel "x"-pattern, over brown, red, and black marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt-stamped titling. Numerous manuscript and aphorisms in a period hand on the blank leaves. Negligible bit of fraying along the front joint, with some minor shelfwear to the boards; otherwise very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. "Catechisms for Dissenting children were published which rehearsed in simple but uncompromising form the main arguments and central narrative of histories such as those of Neal and Calamy. Samuel Palmer s The Protestant-Dissenter s Catechism, first published in 1773 was in its eleventh edition by 1800. Written at the request of several ministers, the text was carefully revised and given their imprimatur by Job Orton and Philip Furneaux, two key figures of an older Dissenting generation. The full title declared its aim: to instruct and establish Young Persons among the Dissenters in the Principles of Nonconformity . As the title suggests, it was organised as a sequence of questions and answers, providing in simple terms the rationale for Dissent from the established church. It covered the history of Dissent chronologically, providing a critical and political account of the ecclesiastical policies of successive monarchs. Young Dissenting readers were not just educated in the long history of puritan and Dissenting sufferings in the cause of genuine protestantism. They received a political education too. No young Dissenter who had gone through Palmer s Catechism could be ignorant of basic facts about the historical origins of anti-Dissenting legislation. He or she would also have learned of the wickedness of the Stuarts, of the unreformed character of the Church of England, and of the qualified liberation of Dissenters by the Revolution in 1688" (John Seed, Roehampton University London).

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• Titre: THE PROTESTANT DISSENTER'S CATECHISM, containing I. A Brief History of the Nonconformists; II. The Reasons of the Dissent from the National Church: Designed to Instruct and Establish Young Person s among the Dissenters in the Principles of Nonconformity
• Éditeur: W. Button & Son, London
• Date de parution: 1818
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Sixteenth Edition.
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