1758 WILLIAM ROMAINE. First Ed. Twelve Discourses on the Song of Solomon. Spurgeon Recommends!

A wonderful copy of an intensely Christ-rich work by William Romaine [1714-1795]. He attended Oxford contemporaneously with Whitefield and the Wesleys and was considered by his professors to be one of the greatest geniuses of his age. And that was to be turned toward Christ. He became pastor at St. Anne's Blackfriars, was friends with William Grimshaw, John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, etc., though decidedly on the Calvinistic side of the revival. He also, as Doddridge and many others, remained in the Church of England.

His most famous work, almost continuously in print since its first appearance in the 18th century, The Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith, is a devotional classic. 

C. H. Spurgeon on the present work, "Twelve excellent sermons from verses taken out of the Song . . . spiritual discourses by one of the most eminent Calvinistic divines of the last century." 

J. C. Ryle devotes an entire section to Romaine in his "Leaders of the Great Revival."

Romaine, William. Twelve Discourses upon some Practical Parts of Solomon's Song. Preached at St. Dunstan's Church in the West, London. London. Printed for J. Worrall, at the Dove, in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's-Inn; etc. 1758. First edition. 366pp. 

Original calf, now finely waxed with only minor rubbing and losses. Textually exceptionally crisp and nearly fine.