Primitive Christianity, Or A Vindication Of The Word Of God Peter Nead

Nead, Peter. Primitive Christianity, or A Vindication of the Word of God (Staunton, VA: Kenton Harper, Printer, 1834). Full leather; 219 pp; measures 4.25 x 7 inches. Label rubbed off spine; leather covers well worn; pencil scribbling and names on the inside front cover and first two flyleaves; early owner’s name in ink on inside of back cover; staining and foxing throughout; inner rear hinge cracked, but still solid. Text ends with page numbered 219, but there appears to have been several following pages removed. [19-1042] The author writes, in the brief Preface, dated December, 1839, “As it is customary for authors to state their motives for writing, I will simply observe, that the only motive which has induced me to write this Book, was to bear testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus; and also impress upon the minds of the children of men, the great necessity of obeying God, our Heavenly Father, in all his precepts, as they have been revealed by Jesus Christ, and are now upon record, in that well known Book called the New Testament.” Contains the basic precepts of Christianity as interpreted by Peter Nead (1796-1877), an American theologian. Raised a Lutheran, Nead switched to Methodism and finally became a preacher in the German Baptist Brethren Church. Primitive Christianity, one of two major books he wrote along with articles for periodicals, was immensely popular during the mid-19th century in America.