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The doctrine of the new birth : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. / Onesimus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewson, John, 1768?-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament--Evidences, authority, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Immortality.
- Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Yellow fever.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Visions.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pery, David H. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)
- Hellings, David P. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Doctrine of the new birth
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by William F. Rackliff, 1839.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1839 by John Hewson.
- "Letter X" on p 73 is partly printed; p. 73 has been printed upside down.
- Error in pagination: p. 84 misnumbered 48.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of David H. Pery.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of David P. Hellings.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has hole in the center of the free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints, 56276
- OCLC:
- 191243251
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