Quite a rare and desirable little imprint of the Memoir of female preacher, devotionalist, mystic, and friend of John Wesley, Joanna Turner. Very unusually for the period, her preaching was acknowledged even by more conservative Evangelicals like David Bogue [who writes the forward], William Jay of Bath, and others.
Of course, it was often wiggled around by not calling it preaching . . .but when a person shares from Scripture, expounds it, and exhorts others to response . . . what on earth is it if not preaching!?
She was greatly used in the edification of others, revivals, in evangelism, and it seems at times in prayer leading to what some might consider prophetic insight, words of wisdom, etc., Wesley himself published an abridged version of her life.
No copies on the market at present and no copies offered at auction.
Turner, Joanna. Memoir of Mrs. Joanna Turner, as Exemplified in Her Life, Death, and Spiritual Experience. With a Recommendatory Preface, by the Rev. D. Bogue, D. D. Second American Edition. Baltimore. Published by John Midwinter. 1830. 257pp.
A very good copy, bound in leather. One gathering is loose and forward in the binding, but otherwise very solid, with moderate foxing.
