Job

1809 · rif. 19557 — Bridgeport: S. Backus 1809. First American edition. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. x. 309 7pp. Full marbled leather binding with gilt lettering to spine. Printed on high quality cotton rag. Major work by Dissenting Minister Job Orton see below. Age wear to binding especially at edges. Owner's signature to free front endpaper dated 1809. Browning to endpapers with sporadic foxing throughout. Overall clean and tight. Very good condition. On the author Source: Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition: ORTON JOB 1717–1783 English dissenting minister was born at Shrewsbury on the 4th of September 1717. He entered the academy of Dr Philip Doddridge at Northampton q.v. became minister of a congregation formed by a fusion of Presbyterians and Independents at High Street Chapel Shrewsbury 1741 received Presbyterian ordination there 1745 resigned in 1766 owing to ill-health and lived in retirement at Kidderminster until his death. He exerted great influence both among dissenting ministers and among clergy of the established church. He was deeply read in Puritan divinity and adopted Sabellian doctrines on the Trinity. Old-fashioned in most of his views he disliked the tendencies alike of the Methodists and other revivalists and of the rationalizing dissenters yet he had a good word for Priestley and Theophilus Lindsey. Among his numerous works are Letters to Dissenting Ministers ed. by S. Palmer 2 vols. 18o6 and Practical Works 2 vols. with letters and memoir 1842. S. Backus hardcover books