Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism or, An Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism, with Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, with a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. [Together with]: A Brief Account of the Li fe and Travels of the Author (Knoxville, Tennessee imprint)

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xiii, [blank], [15]-299 pp. Hardcover in orange paper-wrapped boards and leather spine with leather spine label and gilt title. Text is complete. Pages show aging and foxing/oxidation throughout, but still very easy to read. Early owner gift inscription of ffep, dated August 1839. An interesting title that Includes much on Brownlow's travels through the Cherokee nation, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. Brownlow "had, he said, as strong a voice as any man in east Tennessee. When not in controversy he was a peaceful and charming man, but his fearless and ruthless honesty in expressing his opinions made him always a storm center." DAB. "For ten years he served as an itinerant preacher, but his intense interest in public questions, and a natural gift of pungent speech soon led him into political as well as religious controversy." Id. These qualities are demonstrated in Brownlow's autobiography, written when he was not yet thirty years old. He describes his conversion to Christianity, which occurred in Abington [a Virginia town near the Tennessee border]; his travels; his observations of the Baptists [whose custom of feet-washing he found distasteful: "never did I, before or since, see as many big dirty feet, washed in one large pewter basin full of water!"]; his confrontations with "impetuous little bigots;" his stay at the home of an Indian slaveholder; slander suits; his difficulties with the Hopkinsians, who named a dog after him; his impressions of Andrew Jackson; his loathing of Nullification and love for the Union; and other vivid impressions gathered during his travels as an itinerant minister. FIRST EDITION. Howes B882. TN II 527. Smith pp. 135-136. III DAB 178. AI 23590 [5]. Not in Clark [should be], Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker. A really nice copy of this work. Not Ex-Lib. N° de ref. del artículo 100681

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