Thornton. Pure Religion Recommended as The Only Way to Happiness, Errors Exposed

Thornton, John. Pure Religion Recommended as The Only Way to Happiness; or, Dangerous Prevailing Errors Exposed, and Gospel Truths Vindicated: In a Series of Dialogues. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1821. First American Edition. [10106] Full leather, edges worn, spine sometime covered in black cloth, modern white label on the cloth, 14.5 x 9 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches). Round bookseller's ink stamp on front paste-down & ffep, 1824 signature of Richard Rand in several places, including the title page. [i]-xii, [13]-250, [2] pp. Text is complete. Several internal hinge repairs; black cloth spine repair is glued to the text block making it stiff to open. Good. Rev. John Thornton (1776-1841), Independent minister for 41 years at Billericay, Essex. His Memoirs were written by his son and published in London in 1843. Allibone lists 20 titles attributed to him.The book is a series of dialogues, in which the author exposes what he considers to be doctrinal errors, including the "Ultra-Calvin