A rather rare little mid-19th century work in the height of the Baptist - Christian Church - Disciples of Christ - Stone-Campbell revivalist / evangelist movement in New England. To many Presbyterians, etc., it seemed more like church-pilfering, i.e. the Baptist evangelist would convince existing believers they were no believers at all, or unfaithful at the least, re-baptize them, and plant new churches. Of course that is probably a generalization or caricature, but there were cases that lent credibility to the narrative.
In the present, Presbyterian divine Daniel Dana Jr. has a series of conversations with his bootmaker, who is tempted to join the dunkers. In a wide ranging series of conversations they cover hermeneutics, history, logic, and some challenges to teh education, ethics, and practices of the Baptist evangelists, i.e. the "convulsions" of the anabaptists, etc.,
Dana Jun., Daniel. Baptology. My Bootmaker and I on Modes of Baptism. By An Old Student. Second Edition. New York. H. B. Durand. 1868. 104pp.
Original cloth, dulled, but very solid and crisp structurally. Textblock crisp, clean, and solid. A very nicely preserved working example.
