Abel Morgan | Anti-Paedo-Rantism Defended, 1750

Abel Morgan

Anti-Paedo-Rantism Defended: A Reply to Mr. Samuel Finley's Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless. Wherein His Repeated Objections against the Baptism of Believers Only, and the Mode of it by Immersion, are again Examined and Refuted. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, in Market-Street, MDCCL (1750)

8vo (164 x 102 mm). Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; small hole to gutter of first two leaves, toned, foxed, and dampstained throughout, a few margins chipped. Contemporary calf ruled in blind, spine with raised bands in five compartments; overall rubbed, corners bumped.

Franklin's printing of the final installment in the Morgan-Finley dispute over baptism.

In the four years after Finley's first pamphlet on the subject in 1746, a total of four pamphlets were published, with the present work concluding the discourse. Franklin printed 500 copies of the present work for the Baptist Society in exchange for £53.13 (Miller).

REFERENCES

Miller 508; ESTC W11648; Evans 6555; Hildeburn 1186

PROVENANCE

Thomas Lownds (stamp to front free endpaper and leaf A5v; signature dated 1783 to title) — presented to Mary Whiston, 28 June 1791 (inscription to front free endpaper)