The Combate between the Flesh and Spirit: as also the wofull with-drawing of the spirit of God, with the causes thereof, and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof, being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons preached a little before his death ... to which is added The Christians directory, tending to direct him in the various conditions that God God may cast him into, in XV. sermons.
London: Printed by T.R. & E.M. for J. Rothwell, 1654. [8], 291, [5] pp. 8vo. Modern cloth. First edition. A very good copy; rebound in cloth with new endpapers, faint institutional blind-stamp to title page, tiny deaccession stamp to rear endpaper, occasional faint dampstain or foxing, but quite clean ESTCR202772. Wing (2nd ed.) L3149 (Variant?). Item #27380
Does not contain 'The Christians directory' (Wing L3145) which may have been issued separately in 1653. Christopher Love (1618–1651), clergyman, converted to evangelical Christianity in 1633 when he heard William Erbury preach. Later he was appointed chaplain to the regiment at Windsor Castle; but from 1646 on believed that heretics in the army were the greatest threat to Presbyterianism and so became a central figure in an attack on the republic. In 1649 Love became involved in a plot to return the exiled Charles II to the throne of England, for which act he was condemned to death and beheaded three years before this volume was printed. "The volumes of posthumously published sermons show that Love was an able preacher whose method was to apply Calvinist doctrine to both comfort and humble his flock before God," (DNB). This volume was the property of Rev. William De Loss Love, Jr, most probably of Hartford, CT.
Price: $500.00