1789 WILLIAM CRABTREE. Important Baptist Sermon on God's Blessing of Baptists, etc.

William Crabtree was converted during the Great Awakening under William Grimshaw of Haworth, but joined the Baptists in the 1750's. He founded a work in Leeds, Ebenezer Chapel, where he influenced a young John Fawcett to join the Baptists; the church became a training ground for young Baptist ministers leaving the Baptist Academy at Bristol. The present work shows what is the true prosperity of a Gospel church, which he seems to equate generally with non-conformists and specifically with the Baptists, though emphasizing personal piety and the interior life of Christ in the community. 

Crabtree, William. The Prosperity of a Gospel Church Considered: In a Sermon delivered at the Ebenezer Chapel, at Leeds, January 14, 1789. Bradford. George Nicholson. 1789. 42pp. 

Solid clean pamphlet with title and all text neat and crisp. Perhaps lacking a half title.