Powicke John (3 results)

Very Good hardback (light edgewear). Overall clean and unmarked. 87 pp 8vo turquoise boards. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.

Hardcover. xii, 256 p.; 20.5 cm. Ink scoring as far as p. 44. Good orig. blue cloth, front cover spotted. Lt. marginal penc.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 66 p.; 26 cm. In edgeworn original tan wrapper. -- Reprinted from 'The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 15 (1931; originally paged 138-176, 442-466) -- A correspondence initiated by John Eliot out of gratitude for The Saints Everlasting Rest and asking five questions, the first: 'What if you sh'ld write practical meditations upon all the severall great acts of faith and grace in union and comunion wth Jesus Christ, through the chief acts of vivification?' -- 16 manuscript letters (Eliot's in the original, Baxter's from the copies he made) survive in Baxter's letter books in Dr. Williams's Library, London. Due to poor handling, much of the correspondence is no longer extant. -- From Eliot's last letter of 30 March 1682: 'Further I see yt you doe not forget, but have a lively remembrance of, or poore Indians, and the Lord's gospelizing worke that is on foote among ym, for wth good remembrance I doe returne you my hearty thanks. The worke is still on foote, praised be God; and they greatly want Bibles. We are making another impression wth emendations. We have done the new Test, and psalms, but canot get leave to print the old test(am)ent wch the Indians doe earnestly cry for. They see the good of it in theire old Bibles, wch maketh them earnest for the whole Bible. My request to yourselfe is, yt you would please to stir up the honorable corporation to it.'.…