1812 ADONIRAM JUDSON &c. Sammelband of Five Important Early American Missionary Publications.

A very attractive period assemblage of missionary works in a single volume, headlined by Adoniram Judson's important work on Christian Baptism, which retains the original photographic frontis of Judson. The engraving nearly always absent. I would think of the perhaps 5 or 6 copies of this we have handled in 30 years, perhaps one of them had it remaining with the text.

This then followed by Claudius Buchanan's classic missions sermon, A Star in the East. Then a significant work by William Johns. From England, he traveled to work with William Carey at Serampore at the same time Judson was arriving in India. Both were officially expelled by Indian officials. Judson evaded deportation, but Johns did not, likely because he was also a bad fit for Carey, Marshman, and Ward. Deported back to England, his ship was diverted because of the War of 1812, and he spent 1812 and 1813 in America preaching to raise funds for the nascent American Baptist Missionary Society. Then a fine early American missionary sermon by Eliphalet Nott, and E. D. Griffin's foundational American missionary sermon, The Kingdom of Christ. This went through several editions immediately after its publication and helped inadvertently fuel the idealogical merging of the global missionary call with the ambitions of the age of discovery and colonialism. 

Judson, Adoniram. Christian Baptism. A Sermon, Preached in the Lal Bazar Chapel, Calcutta, on Lord's-Day, September 27, 1812, Previous to the Administration of the Ordinance of Baptism. With many Quotations from Paedobaptist Authors. Boston. Lincoln & Edmands. 1817. 71pp.

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Buchanan, Claudius [of India]. The Star in the East; A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of St. James, Bristol, on Sunday, February 26, 1809 for the Benefit of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. To which is added an Appendix, Containing the Interesting Report of Rev. Dr. Kerr, to the Governor of Madras, on the State of Ancient Christians in Cochin and Travancore, and an Account of the Discoveries made by Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of 200,000 Christians, in the Sequestered Region of Hindostan. Boston. Munroe & Francies. 1811. 52pp.

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Johns, William [Missionary to India]. A Sermon Preached in the Meeting House of the Baptist Society in Salem, on Lord's-Day Evening, January 26, 1812. For the Benefit of the Translations of the Scriptures into the Languages of India and China. With an Appendix, including Remarks of President Smith's Observations on Foreign Missions. Boston. Lincoln & Edmands. 1812. 47pp.

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Nott, Eliphalet. A Sermon Preached before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; by Appointment of their Standing Committee of Missions; May 19, 1806. Philadelphia. 1806. Newburyport. Samuel Dole. 1808. 24pp.

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Griffin, Edward D. The Kingdom of Christ; A Missionary Sermon Preached before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. May 23, 1805. Philadelphia. Printed 1805. Newburyport. Samuel Dole. 1808. 20pp.

Good + in original quarter calf with original mineral blue paper boards. Some fading and wear as shown, but quite sharp overall. Occasional foxing, but generally clean as shown. Some old adhesive remainder on pastedown and ffep.