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Poems : comprising the trial of Cain, the first murderer by rule of court, in which a predestinarian, a Universalian and an Arminian argue as attorneys at the bar, the two former as the prisoner's counsel, the latter as attorney-general : and other pieces.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calvinism--Sermons.
- Calvinism.
- Free will and determinism--Religious aspects.
- Free will and determinism.
- God--Omniscience.
- God.
- Sermons, American.
- Bible. O.T. Isaiah XL, 1--Sermons.
- Bible.
- Cain (Biblical figure).
- Cain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (68 p. )
- Other Title:
- Poems
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?] : Printed for the publisher, 1836.
- Notes:
- First piece, The trial of Cain, signed (p. [5]): "By Erastus Brown."
- Includes two hymns which appear in Nathan Lanesford Foster's 1841 collection "The last of his family," as well as three additional poems and a sermon of uncertain authorship. NUC pre-1956 notes an 1834 edition, without the sermon, published in New York by Green & Donaldson.
- "A sermon."--P. [52]-68. Concerning the doctrines of Calvinism.
- Verse.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 63612.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Brown, Erastus. Trial of Cain, the first murderer.
- OCLC:
- 11
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