| Author | Erskine, Ralph, 1685-1752.
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| Title | Gospel sonnet: or, spiritual songs. In six parts. I. The Believer's espousals. II. The believer's jointure. III. The believer's riddle. IV. The believer's lodging. V. The believer's soliloquy. VI. The believer's principles, concerning creation and redemption. Law and gospel. Justification and sanctification. Faith and sense. Heaven and earth. By the late Mr. Ralph Erskine, minister of the gospel at Dunsermline.
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| Edition | First American Edition, from the twenty-third British. |
| Published | Philadelphia, Printed and Sold by John M'Culloch, 1793.
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| Description | 384 p. 15 cm.
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| General Note | Head and tailpieces.
Published anonymously, Edinburgh, 1720, with title: Gospel canticles; or, spiritual songs ... By a minister of the gospel in the Church of Scotland.
This is not the 1st Anerican ed.; there were several prior to it, the first printed in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, 1740.
A system of theology in verse; not in sonnet form.
"Books for sale by J. M'Culloch": p. [2]
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| Cit./Ref. Note | References: Evans no. 25455.
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| Subjects | Hymns, English.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
Theology.
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| Related Titles | Spiritual songs.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: PR 3431 E73G 1793
mq31739: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 24620] |
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