1788 "Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns" Very Early Printing of Amazing Grace!

Description: "A Select Collection of Hymns, to be universally sung in all the Countess of Huntingdon's Chape[ls]. Collected by her Ladyship. What meanest thou, O Sleeper! Arise, call upon thy God. Jonah Ch.1.Ver.6. London: Printed for and Sold by Hughes & Walsh. Stationers & Booksellers, Inner Temple Lane. -MDCCLXXXVIII-" This is Believed to be one of the Earliest Printing of "AMAZING GRACE" Available on the Market. We have found a slightly older example of the hymn appearing in a 1779 Hymn Book which sold for $3000. Selina Shirley Huntingdon (Countess of Huntingdon), Born August 24th, 1707, Nottinghamshire, England. Died: June 17th, 1791, London, England. Buried: St. Helen's Church, Leicester, England. The Countess' title came from her 1728 marriage to Theophilus Hastings, Ninth Earl of Huntingdon. At an early age, Selina received serious religious impressions, which remained with her all her life. She was a member of the first Methodist Society, in Fetter Lane, London, and the first Methodist Conference was held at her house in 1744. Her sympathies, however, were with the Calvinism of George Whitefield, and when the breach occurred between Whitefield and the Wesleys, she chose Whitefield. She spent her money freely building chapels, founding Trevecca College, South Wales (now Cheshunt), and supporting her preachers. For use in her chapels she compiled A Select Collection of Hymns. There are also a few hymns attributed to her own hand. John Newton (July 24th, 1725 - December 21st, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slave ship master. He is best known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. Returning to England in 1748 aboard the slave trading ship Greyhound via the Atlantic triangle trade route, the ship and crew encountered a severe storm, which threatened to overwhelm them. Newton awoke in the middle of the night and, as the vessel filled with water, prayed for God's mercy and said the Lord's prayer. It was this experience which he was later of mark as the beginnings of his conversion to evangelical Christianity. In 1755 Newton became tide surveyor of the port of Liverpool, and in his spare time, was able to study Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. he became well-known as an evangelical lay minister, and applied for the Anglican priesthood in 1757, although it was more than seven years before he was eventually accepted and ordained into the Church of England. After what he felt was his true conversion to Christianity, he came to deeply regret and repent of his personal involvement in the slave trade, and he later joined William Wilberforce in the campaign for abolition. In 1787 he wrote a tract supporting the campaign, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade. Newton had married his sweetheart Mary Catlett (whom he had known since his teenage years) in 1750. After her death in 1790 he published his Letters to a Wife in 1793, in which he expressed his grief. His faculties gradually deteriorated and with his sight having failed, he died on December 21, 1807. He was buried beside his wife in St. Mary Woolnoth, and both him and his wife were reinterred at Olney in 1893. Olney has a museum to commemorate its most famous son. We are offering this rare volume to the serious collector of early and rare Hymn Books with the notable hymn 'Amazing Grace' as part of this early print edition. Eighteenth century Huntingdon Hymn books rarely appear on the market and this little volume would be a great addition to any Evangelical Collection. The volume itself is in general overall fair to good condition with a leather cover in good working condition. The text block is generally fair to good condition with moderate foxing, a few corner tip folds and pages throughout that are cropped close to the margins. The text inside remains readable and the volume appears complete. Measures 4" x 3.5" x 1.25" Box 309

Price: 1495 USD

Location: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

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