1838 JAMES HERVEY & W. ROMAINE. Meditations and Contemplations & Life of the Author.

A rather attractive copy of a contemplative classic of the Great Awakening. James Hervey [1714-1758] was friends, then later controversialists with, John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield. He was at first an Arminian, then a Calvinist, and then most consider an Antinomian. He dedicated works to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and was much loved personally, but his theology caused a rift between him and his fellow Methodists and Calvinistic Methodists.  Hervey, James and Romaine, W. Meditations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs; Reflections on a Flower Garden; Descant on Creation; Contemplations on the Night; Contemplations on the Starry Heavens; and a Winter Piece. By the Rev. James Hervey, A.M. Late Rector of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire. To Which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and A Sermon on His Death, by the Rev. W. Romaine, A.M. Embellished with Appropriate Engravings, from Original Drawings. London. Thomas Kelly. 1838. 403pp. A good - copy, bound in leather, lightly shaken, with one signature forward, and light to moderate foxing. Rubbed, but attractive.