Several discourses on [i] The unsearchable riches of Christ. [ii] The knowledge of Christ crucified. [iii] The authority and efficacy of the word. [iv] Working out our salvation. [v] The observation of the Christian-sabbath. [vi] Christ's coming to judge the world. Being some remains of William Alleine, M.A. Sometime Minister of the Gospel in Blanford. Carefully copy'd and publish'd at the request of his hearers. [Signed to the title by Daniel Rowland]. Allein, William

Octavo. [6.75'' tall x 4.25]. Collates complete [18], 344p. Signed to the title page, Dan. Rowland, believed to be the 18th.C. Welsh Evangelist. With an ink mark to the upper right corner of the title. A good, complete copy of this rare work. Only a couple of recorded copies in ESTC. With some patches of worming, mainly in part four to the upper corners. With some more minor lower worming, mainly marginal. Occasional marks, light blemishes or reading wear commensurate with age else a sound copy presented in an attractive restored period binding. William Alleine [1614-1677]. Younger brother of Richard Alleine, born at Ditcheat, Somerset, in 1613-1614. As with all this family, his first education was under his own father. He proceeded to the University of Oxford, being, like Richard, entered at St Alban Hall. He took his degrees of B.A. and M.A. On leaving the university he became private chaplain in 'a noble house' (Lord Digby?) in London. At the beginning of the First English Civil War, Alleine was residing at Ilchester, "consulted by great officers". For his letters to them he was 'proclaimed by the cavaliers a traitor in three market towns.' He held them, in turn, for traitors against the kingdom. He was repeatedly plundered and maltreated. Hairbreadth escapes for his life were long remembered. Having removed to Bristol, Alleine was there brutally ill used. In the 'Commission' of 1650 he is entered 'William Allen, a learned, orthodox, able divine, the present incumbent.' In 1653 he is similarly designated. When the Act of Uniformity was passed, the vicar of Blandford never hesitated. His parishioners held him in the utmost veneration, and he 'dearly loved' them. But he 'freely quitted his living,' and 'ministered to a few people in private.' A few years after the ejection he took up his residence again in Bristol, where he carried on his ministry with ever-increasing acceptance. From thence he went to Yeovil, in his native county of Somerset. He there died in October 1677, aged 63. Alleine published two books on the Millennium, and after his death there were printed Six Discourses on the Unsearchable Riches of Christ. Daniel Rowland (also spelt Rowlands, 1713 - 16 October 1790) Evangelist and early on as an Anglican curate. He was one of the foremost figures in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist revival, along with the evangelist Howell Harris and the hymnist William Williams. For 55 years Daniel Rowland was one of the leading evangelists in Wales. Rowland was born in Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, in either 1713 or 1711. For most of his life he was curate in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llangeitho. Following his conversion by Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, in 1735, he became renowned as a preacher and made Llangeitho memorable as a centre for Calvinistic Methodism in Wales. The Anglican Church authorities deprived him of his Nantcwnlle curacy in about 1763, an action which was unpopular with parishioners. Following this, he established a Methodist "cause" in Llangeitho, and by 1770 was said to be attracting congregations of over a thousand, making it necessary to preach outdoors. This practice became an influence on the English Methodist preacher George Whitefield. Rowland's early preaching gave much attention to God's judgement in his sermons. As he matured in his ministry, he placed more emphasis on the saving work of Jesus on the Cross. His theology and character were seen as more consistent and stable than those of his counterpart Howell Harris, whom he met in 1737. One of the best-known of Rowland's sermons is "The Redeemer's Voice", which takes as its text a passage from the Book of Revelation. At first Rowland and Harris worked together as leaders of the Methodist revival, but by 1741, they had fallen out, and in 1750 they ceased to cooperate. Bound in full blind tooled contemporary calf. Nicely re-backed in calf in a period style.