Marshall, Walter. The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification Opened, in sundry practical Directions; Suited especially to the Case of Those who Labour under the Guilt and Power of Indwelling Sin. To which is added, a Sermon on Justification. To which is prefixed, A Recommendation by Eleven Divines. From the Twelfth European Edition. New-York: Southwick and Pelsue, 1811. [7910]
Full leather binding, some edge-wear yet with fine outer hinges and no cracks, red leather title label with some loss, 4 1/4 x 7 inches. Signed on the tp by Cyrus Blood, Hagerstown. (i)-xi., (12)-312 pp., complete. Table of contents leaf with small corner tear (see pics); infrequent pencil markings. Very good. Full leather.
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Walter Marshall, “d. 1690, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Winchester College; Vicar of Hursley, Hampshire; ejected at the Restoration; subsequently pastor of a Dissenting congregation at Gosport. The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification Opened in Sundry Practical Directions. To which is added a Serm. on Justification. Lon., 1692, 8vo. Often reprinted. “ – Allibone.
“Were I to be banished to some desolate island, possessed only of two books beside my Bible, this should be one of the two; perhaps the first that I would choose.” – Rev. James Hervey.
“The most spiritual expositor of Scripture I ever read.” – William Cowper.
“Dr. Owen’s excellent book on Justification, and Marshall’s book of the Mystery of Sanctification by Faith in Jesus Christ, are such indications and confirmations of the Protestant doctrine against which I fear no effectual opposition.” – Robert Trail.
Among the many luminaries whose recommendations are prefixed, are Alexander Hamilton, Ebenezer Erskine, Ralph Erskine, James Wardlaw, John Gib, James Oglevie, Adam Gib, James Hervey, and John M. Mason.
The original owner of this volume, Cyrus Blood, was a Pennsylvania pioneer. Cyrus Blood (1795-1860), b. New Ipswich, New Hampshire; d. Marienville, Pennsylvania. Educated in Boston, he emigrated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1817 to become principal of the academy there; afterwards he was principle of the academy in Hagerstown, Maryland; he later became a professor at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. He was ambitious to found a county in Pennsylvania, and bushwacked into what was almost unbroken wilderness in northern Jefferson County, purchasing a vast tract of land, taking possession in 1833. First known as "the Blood settlement," the dream of founding a county failed, but the town of Marienville (named for his wife, Marien) remains.