Jay, William; Redford, James & James, John Angell [editors]. The Autobiography of William Jay. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1974. ISBN: 0851511775. [11757]
Red cloth with price-clipped dust jacket. Ex library, with remnant of white label on the dust jacket and an whole one on the book itself, some scuffing to front and back end papers from removal of bookplate/card pocket, ink stamp on the tp. 9 x 5 3/4 inches. xiii, [3], 586 clean pp. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
First published in 1854.
William Jay (1769-1854), “an eminent Dissenting divine, a native of Tisbury, Wiltshire, commenced preaching when between 15 and 16 years of age, and before he was 21 had delivered nearly 1,000 sermons.” – Allibone.
Jay was minister of the Argyle Chapel, Bath, for sixty-two years.
“As a preacher, and as an author, Mr. Jay has acquired great celebrity. John Foster calls him the Prince of Preachers; Sheridan styled him the most natural orator whom he had ever heard; Dr. James Hamilton speaks of hearing him with ‘wonder and delight;’ and Beckford describes his mind as ‘clear, transparent stream, flowing so freely as to impress us with the idea of its being inexhaustible.’
