A Free-Will Baptist. The Church Member's Book: or Admonitions and Instructions for All Classes of Christians. In Three Parts. Part I. Experimental Religion; Part II. The Church - and Duties of Members in the Church; Part III. The Duties of Christians, arising from their Christian Profession. Dover, [N.H.]: Published by the Free-Will Baptist Printing Establishment | William Burr, Printer, 1847. First Edition. [12388]
Red leather spine with dark purple boards, title in gilt to spine, thin sunned streak at top of the front board, 6 x 4 inches, tight. First free end paper torn with loss at top corner. Bookplate of Enoch P. Ladd. 191, [1] clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
"The repeated revivals of religion within the last few years have often suggested to the mind of the Author of the following pages, the necessity of a book which should clearly present the duties of Christians in the church. In revivals in which he has labored, he has deeply regretted that he has had no suitable book, with sentiments congenial to the views of his denomination, which he might put into the hands of the converts, that should assist them onward in the Divine life." - Preface.
The bookplate: Rev. Enoch Place Ladd (1832-1874), b. Deerfield, New Hampshire; d. Limerick, Maine. He was a Freewill Baptist pastor of the church in Stratford, New Hampshire, for 41 years.
