A Lover of the Truth; [Prentiss, Charles]. The Trial : Calvin and Hopkins versus the Bible and Common Sense. Second Edition Enlarged, to which are added Some Remarks on the Andover Institution. Boston: NP, 1819. Second Edition, Enlarged. [12112]
Removed, no wrapper, short tear at top of the title page, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 39 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
This is a very lively and rather sarcastic attack on Calvinism. Pointed, names names, quotes authors. "I cannot but shudder when I think of what appears to me the enormous blasphemy of these doctrines." - p. 5.
Charles Prentiss (1774-1820), b. Reading, MA; died Brimfield, MA. Prentiss graduated at Harvard University (1795), and led a somewhat restless life, living in many different cities while editing various periodicals, such as the Rural Depository, the Political Focus, the Washington Federalist, the Anti-Democrat, the Child of Pallas, the Thistle, the Independent American, and the Virginia Patriot. When in Washington he reported the Proceedings of Congress. Prentiss was also the author of a Life of General Eaton, and of a History of the United States.
