{"product_id":"a-treatise-concerning-the-lords-supper-with-three-dialogues-for-the-more-full-information-of-the-weak-in-the-nature-and-use-of-this-sacrament","title":"A Treatise Concerning the Lords Supper: with Three Dialogues for the More Full Information of the Weak, in the Nature and Use of This Sacrament.","description":"[vi], 174, [4] pp. Brown full leather. Table of contents follows text. An examination of the holy sacrament of communion (also called the eucharist or the lord's supper), and the relationship between Christians, their faith, prayer, and this ceremony. Thomas Doolittle was a clergyman and graduate of Pembroke College, and was drawn to faith after hearing a speech by Richard Baxter (later a leader of the Nonconformists) in his teenage years. He \"decided against accepting the terms for conforming to the Church of England set by the Restoration parliament and was ejected from his living as rector of St Alfege on 24 August 1662... After the Toleration Act of 1689 Doolittle returned to Monkwell Street and re-established both his ministry and his academy. Despite frequent disruptions his academy was reputedly the 'leading Presbyterian academy in London'... As a pastor, Doolittle preached twice each Sunday, lectured on the Westminster assembly catechism on Wednesdays, and pursued a vigorous catechetical ministry. Already a popular author (his A Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper, 1667, reached twenty-seven English editions, twenty-two Scottish editions, and twenty-six New England editions, as well as translations into Welsh and German), he was eventually the author of twenty-three treatises, tracts, and sermons, although he was valued most by his peers for his five works on catechizing. Doolittle's surviving correspondence with Baxter demonstrates that he followed closely the theological debates between Anglicans and nonconformists and among nonconformists themselves. In most of his own published writings, however, he consistently chose to address pastoral and evangelistic concerns. His later reputation as one 'not eminent for compass of knowledge or depth of thought' is undeserved, as it is based on condescending comments by his student Thomas Emlyn, whose rejection of 'the narrow schemes of systematical divinity' and later drift into unitarianism did not predispose him to think favourably of his erstwhile tutor (Works of Thomas Emlyn, vi–vii).\" - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography","brand":"B. Green, for Benj. Eliot, at His Shop under the West End of the Town-House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40386415198278,"sku":"2329107","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2329107.jpg?v=1667491686","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/a-treatise-concerning-the-lords-supper-with-three-dialogues-for-the-more-full-information-of-the-weak-in-the-nature-and-use-of-this-sacrament","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}