Very rare second enlarged edition of Nevin's historically important critique of the Second Great Awakening's "New Methods," focusing on emotional response, altar calls, the anxious bench, etc., which had begun to seed in the ministry of George Whitefield, but found full bloom in the revivalist meetings of Charles G. Finney, Jedidiah Burchard, and others. Finney and Burchard, by name, are specifically the targets of the present work.
Nevin, John W. A Tract for the Times. The Anxious Bench. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Chambersburg, PA. The German Reformed Church. 1844. 150pp.
In original wraps cloth, faded and rubbed, but still attractive and generally sound with separation between title and preface signatures. Textually clean and solid. Some thumbing smudges.
