Arnold, Joel R. Strictures on a Sermon, entitled An Account of the Revival in Jerusalem, with Observations on some of the most remarkable things that took place in the work. Or, A Sermon, delivered in Chester, N. H. on Lord's Day Morning, April 20, 1823, By William Taylor, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Concord. Concord: J. W. Shepard's Office, 1823. First Edition. [3512]
Untrimmed pamphlet, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 16 pp. "From the author" on front. Good. Pamphlet.
The author, the pastor of the Congregational church in Chester, N. H., grew alarmed at the influence of the sermon preached in Chester by the Baptist pastor William Taylor of nearby Concord, and issued these strictures on the topics of closed communion, adult baptism by immersion, and that the pattern of the Day of Pentecost is an expected description of the church today.