A letter to the Reverend Samuel Hopkins, Bishop of a church in Newport; and the Reverend Moses Hemminway [i.e., Hemmenway], Bishop of a church in Wells / By a lunar hermit. ; Containing I. Some advice to those two Reverend disputants. ; II. An abridgement of an old book written long ago, by the man in the moon. In which is shown, 1. What things are holy, sinful, and indifferent. 2. What is the nature of duty; and that the unregenerate do many duties. 3. That there is no rightness in the doings of the unregenerate. ; III. An appendix, containing 1. An explanation and proof of a power of self-determination. 2. The explanation and proof of the being of principles in the human mind. 3. Proof of the ethico-physical, inability of sinners. 4. An explanation and vindication of next and remote powers.

Author/creator Lunar hermit
Other author Dewey, Israel, 1713-1773.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Newport, R.I.?] : [publisher not identified], Re-printed in the year 1793.
Description16 pages ; 16 cm (16mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 25390. ^A478749
General noteSometimes attributed to Israel Dewey.
General notePlace of publication suggested by Alden.
References Evans 25390
References Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1308
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25390).
Other titleLetter to the Reverend Samuel Hopkins.

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