A rather rare little imprint in which Francis Asbury has edited the works of two Irenic works by the puritans, Jeremiah Burroughs and Richard Baxter, to form a concise manual on dealing with disagreements, division, and dissension in relationships and the church.
Of course, we don't need to address these issues today. We're far too dignified and spiritually mature to divide over anything save Christ and him crucified. A historic curiosity nonetheless.
This copy that of Rev. William W. Browne of the Genesee Conference of the Methodists, and later a Free Methodist in Tonawanda, New York. He preached the funeral of "Black Hannah," a slave freed on the Underground Railroad around whom formed a significant local lore.
Scarce in the trade.
Asbury, Francis. The Causes, Evils, and Cures of Heart and Church Divisions. Extracted from the Works of Burroughs and Baxter. By Francis Asbury, one of the Bishops of Methodist Episcopal Church. Edited by Thomas O. Summers, D.D. Nashville. Publishing House of the M,. E. Church, South. 1890. 224pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages.
