The Process And Empire Of Christ; From His Birth To The End Of The Mediatorial Kingdom; A Poem, In Twelve Books. Winchester, Elhanan

First American edition (Sabin 104731). Two gatherings sprung, one holding at bottom edge, other loose but included, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and stamp and pencil notes on endpapers, old sticker on spine, edges rubbed. 1805 Full-Leather. 352 pp. 12mo. Original full leather, black leather spine label, gilt titles and rules. A long-form religious poem. Winchester's most well-known work was The Universal Restoration, originally published in London in 1788. Winchester began his religious life as a Baptist, but his 'reading of Sir George Stonehouse's The Restitution of All Things (1761), combined with his personal acquaintance with the Universalist George de Benneville (1703?1793), completed Winchester's conversion to Universalism. His church dismissed him, and he gathered a Universal Baptist congregation of which Benjamin Rush was a member.' He was a social activist in addition to a preacher, and spoke out against slavery during the American Revolution. (Hill, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).