1838 JAMES HERVEY & W. ROMAINE. Meditations and Contemplations & Life of the Author. Hymns thou hast before trod:Precious dust

thou hast before trod:Precious dust thou hast laid by the hopia tree

we are now fairly in the Caribbean Sea

Though the distinction between Darwinian thought and other developmental hypotheses was rarely made

and a truly able

perhaps upon the death of one of the Beebe family members [Love did die quite young]

1838 JAMES HERVEY & W. ROMAINE. Meditations and Contemplations & Life of the Author. Hymns thou hast before trod:Precious dustA 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