A very scarce American imprint of a work by Coupar Angus [Perthshire] United Presbyterian divine, Alexander Allan [1752-1824]. A fascinating work reflecting the shift of the "Covenanting" language in Scottish theology, from an emphasis on National covenanting in the 17th and 18th centuries, to a more personalized or individual Covenanting with God in the 19th century. Both ideas were always present, but the emphasis shifted in the 19th century toward individual or local faith versus faithful participation in a national and political faith [which was often bundled with faithful citizenship].
We trace no other examples of this imprint.
Allan, Alexander. A View of Religious Covenanting: In Which the Nature Warrantableness, Seasons, Manner, and Ends, of That Important Duty, are Stated and Illustrated. Being a Course of Sermons, Preached in 1807. By Alexander Allan, Minister of the Gospel, Cupar Angus. Schenectady. Printed by I. Riggs. 1820. 222pp.
A good copy, bound in leather, generally solid, with light to moderate foxing, handled pages, and blank ffep removed.
