Author: WILLIAMS (Joseph):
Title: Extracts from the Diary, Meditations, and Letters, of Mr. Joseph Williams Of Kidderminster. Who died December 21. 1755, Aged 63. A New Edition. To which are now added A Number of Original Letters to the late Rev Mr. R-----ll.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ritchie, for J. Ogle..., 1797. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xii, 352, contemporary sheepskins, morocco label (chipped); no rear end-papers, binding knocked about, front joint holding on for dear life, rear joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped. Joseph Williams (1692 - 1755) was with Benjamin Fawcett (1715 - 1780), who edited this volume, one of a group of Presbyterian ministers sympathetic to the views of Philip Doddridge and George Whitefield. The letters mentioned in the title were addressed to T. Randall. The work was first published in Shrewsbury in 1779, with a second edition in 1783. ESTC T92659 locates 3 copies: L, BMu; PPiPT.

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