Dissertation on the Means of Regeneration

Printed wraps, 8vo, 47pp. Good copy; lower corner a bit chewed with no threat to printed area, faint dampstaining with a persistent tidemark at the upper spine and mild foxing. The second printing of one of Spring's earlier tracts that commanded a flurry of responses after first appearing in 1827. Gardiner Spring (1785-1873) was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, best known for the namesake "Gardiner Spring Resolutions" in 1861 which established loyalty in the Presbyterian Church in the United States with the federal government. Aligned with the start of the Civil War, it created a seismic division that resulted in Southern pastors establishing the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.