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Three disbound pamphlets by the English Baptist minister Robert Hall (1764-1831). (1) xix, 119. title-page soiled, pages heavily spotted, (2) iv, 41, 8 pp, first edition, (3) 84, 8 pp. 'Hall's first published compositions had a political origin. In 1791 he wrote Christianity consistent with the Love of Freedom, a defense of the political conduct of dissenters against the attacks of John Clayton, gave expression to his hopes of political and social improvements as destined to result from the subversion of old ideas and institutions in the French Revolution. In 1793 he expounded his political sentiments in a longer pamphlet, AN APOLOGY FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. He was unhappy with the pamphlet, and refused to permit publication after the third edition. In a new edition of 1821 he omitted the attack on Bishop Samuel Horsley, and stated that his political opinions had undergone no substantial change. His other publications while at Cambridge were three sermons: MODERN INFIDELITY (1801), REFLECTIONS ON WAR (1802) (sermon given at Cambridge on 1 June to celebrate the Treaty of Amiens), and Sentiments proper to the present Crisis (1803). Hall's writings at Leicester embraced various tracts printed for private circulation; a number of contributions to the Eclectic Review, among which may be mentioned his articles on Foster's Essays and on Zeal without Innovation; several sermons, including those On the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes (1810), On the Death of the Princess Charlotte (1817), and On the Death of Dr Ryland (1825); and his pamphlet on Terms of Communion, in which he advocated intercommunion with all those who acknowledged the "essentials" of Christianity. In 1819 he published an edition in one volume of his sermons formerly printed' (Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # ABE-1502868644784
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