Very scarce commentary on the four Gospel accounts and introduction to the New Testament with a biography of its author, John Samuel Thompson. At the time of this writing, he was a Universalist, but the study of Scripture begun here led him to renounce his Universalism because of its lack of biblical basis, historicity, and inability to produce personal reformation. A timely document.

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Thompson, John Samuel. The Christian Guide to a Right Understanding of the Sacred Scriptures, Designed as a Select Commentary on the Four Evangelists, Harmonized and Chronologically Arranged in a New Translation, on the Basis of Wakefield's Version: To which are Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author and a Copious Introduction to the New Testament. Utica, N.Y. Printed for the Author by A. G. Dauby. 1826. 280pp.

Good with wear as shown; rare. Very solid and generally clean with some scattered foxing and a few pages with darkening from pressed floral preservations.