Spring, Gardiner. The Bible Not of Man: or, The Argument for the Divine Origin of the Sacred Scriptures, drawn from the Scriptures themselves. New York: American Tract Society, (1847). [12391]
Brown pebble publisher's cloth, titles in copper to the spine, binding clean and unworn, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, tight. Bookplate of Enoch P. Ladd. 319 pp., a few corner tips turned, a few pencil marks in the text; pages are toned, particularly the title page. Good. Hardcover.
1847 copyright date; possibly a later printing.
Contents: The Fitness of the Time selected by Divine Providence for the introduction of the Christian Dispensation; The Bible above the Invention of the Human Intellect; The Spirit of the Bible a Superhuman Spirit; The Moral Rectitude of the Bible; The peculiar Doctrines of the Bible give Evidence of its Divine Origin; The Religion of the Bible a Proof of its Divine Origin; The Unity of the Scriptures; Adaptation of the Scripture to the Character and Wants of Man; The Divine Origin of the Scriptures attested by Christian Experience; The Bible Accordant with Human Reason; Concluding Observations.
Rev. Gardiner Spring, (1785-1873), American Presbyterian minister, pastor of the Brick Street Presbyterian church in New York City for 63 years. An excellent scholar, he commenced the study of the Greek & Latin languages at the age of 12. Dr. Spring was a Calvinist, a friend of the American Bible Society, and an advocate of missions and revivals, although critical of what he considered to be "spurious revivals." He was widely useful as an author and preacher and "few men in any profession have made a more enduring mark on the age."
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.
