True Religion Delineated; Or, Experimental Religion: As Distinguished from Formality on the One Hand, and Enthusiasm on the Other, Set in a Scriptural and Rational Light ...

Includes an 8-page preface by Jonathan Edwards. The book has distinguished early provenance: original owner John Stits [Stites] (1706-1782) of Elizabeth, NJ (not listed among the subscribers); his son-in-law the Rev. James Manning (1738-1791), founding president of Brown University in Rhode Island and a Continental Congress delegate; Manning's nephew, the Rev. Stephen Gano (1762-1828), who succeeded Manning as pastor of Providence's First Baptist Church in America; Gano's son-in-law, the Rev. Peter Ludlow Jr. (1797-1837) of Enfield, CT; historian Gilbert Wilkinson Hazeltine (1818-1893) of Jamestown, NY in 1854; Swann sale, 18 September 1986, lot 31.