1754 JOHN CENNICK. Early Methodist - Moravian Sermon on Mixed Linen and Wool. Revivalist.
1754 JOHN CENNICK. Early Methodist - Moravian Sermon on Mixed Linen and Wool. Revivalist.
Unusual early imprint of a Great Awakening sermon by one of its leading proponents. A fascinating piece of period interpretation in which Cennick lays out his "gospel-centric" method of interpreting the Old Testament, and from there proceeds to apply his process to the famed "mixed fabrics" passage of Deuteronomy [and Leviticus], from which he exhorts to Gospel purity and personal and corporate reformation.
John Cennick [1718-1755] was a very early co-laborer with both John Wesley and George Whitefield. When the two split, he sided with Whitefield and joined the Calvinistic Methodists, then later the Moravians.
Cennick, John. The Linsey-Woolsey Garment. Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered at Drumargen in the County of Antrim, in Ireland, in the Year 1754. London. H. Trapp. 1786. Third Edition. 22pp.
Very crisp, clean text; complete as issued without half-title. At some point part of a larger sammelband, but now isolated with usual remains.