Full leather binding with one working clasp measures 7 x 4.5", 12mo. 

Zeugniß eines Kindes von der Richtigkeit der Wege des Geistes, vorgestellt in einer mystischen und buchstäblichen Erklärung der Offenbahrung Jesu Christi, dem heiligen Johanni geschehen. Aus dem französischen Original=Manuscript in die deutsche Sprache übersetzt. Erster Theil. Libanon, [Penns.] gedruckt von J. Schnee, 1808. 634 p + Register. 

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Zworinnen die getane Fragen beantwortet werden: Was nämlich der heutig bekannte Inspirations=Geist. Fur ein geist sen? Remlich der die Menschen, die sich zu Werkzeu=gen gebrauchen lassen, um auszusprechen was er ihnen eingebt, mit seltsamen Gebärden bewegt. Libanon, [Penns.] gedruckt von J. Schnee, 1808. 37 p. 

In fair condition. Restored front hinge cracked at head with some exposed cording; hinges desiccated. ONLY ONE CLASP (top; working); bottom clasp LACKING. Edges of text-block speckled red. Pencil marginalia on front end-page. Front gutter split at title page with exposed cording. Regular age-staining and toning through text-block. Binding remains intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. 

   Charles Hector de St. George, Marquis de Marsay (1688-1753) was a descendant of a noble family of Reformed faith, which had emigrated from France to Germany and Switzerland, and from childhood he was acquainted with such books of devotion as those of Thomas à Kempis and Jurieu. He served as an ensign in an Anglo-Hanoverian regiment in Belgium during the Spanish War of Succession. During a severe illness he was urged by two friends to resign his commission and withdraw entirely from the world. 

    After 1713 De Marsay and his wife made repeated visits to his kinsmen in Geneva in the hope of reconciling his mother, who was displeased with her son's course of life. In Switzerland they came in frequent contact with the "awakened," and De Marsay learned of the writings of Madame Guyon, which were henceforth to control him. Gradually withdrawing from ascetic extremes, De Marsay and his wife devoted themselves more to practical work, became partially reconciled with his family, and accepted a pension from his father's estate. Now all his former struggles seemed to him self-righteousness, and he regarded himself as a child with neither light nor certainty. Then began, according to his conviction, the renewal of the "center," or the foundation of his soul, through the spirit of God, although for many years his spiritual life knew neither rest nor constancy.

   Jacob Schnee (1784-1838) a Lutheran minister, utopian community pioneer, publisher, and one of the earliest German printers in America, was born in Lancaster, PA. He printed his first book at age 15, and published the first Lebanon, PA newspaper in 1807. Ordained in 1813, he preached in Pittsburgh. In 1817-1818, he founded the Harmonie Institute in Harmony, PA, as an attempt at a utopian community. In 1822 he pastored a church in Middleton, MD. He arrived in New Harmony, IN in 1827 with plans to form a utopian religious community as Robert Owen was leaving the area, and leased over 800 acres east of the town. The land was turned into a plantation with food crops and livestock.

It was re-printed in the Americas to feed the growing market of pious and literate German immigrants. 

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