HAWEIS, Thomas. ~ The Communicant's Spiritual Companion. Or, an evangelical Preparation for the Lord’s Supper. In which I. The Nature of the Ordinance is shewn. II. The Dispositions requisite for a Profitable Participation thereof. Wherein The Careless Sinner is Admonished, The Formalist Detected and Reproved, The Feeble-Minded Comforted, The Doubting Relieved, The Sincere Assisted, and The Faithful Confirmed. With meditations and helps for prayer, suitable to the subject. Dublin: for Henry Whitestone, 1775.
12mo (165 × 98 mm), pp. x, 143, [3] (including adverts at end). Minor waterstaining. Contemporary Irish calf, spine gilt in compartments. Rubbed, corners worn, some soiling and contemporary scribbles on the upper cover, wants front free endpaper. Ownership inscription ‘Jn Holiday, 1775’, some early erased scribbles to the rear endpaper. A very good copy. With a delightful later homemade page marker (c. ?1910) with a painted flying bird and the words ‘keep my place’.
A rare Dublin edition of this popular spiritual guide by an important evangelical preacher, first published c. 1750 and several times reprinted in the eighteenth century. The adverts for other works published by Whitestone in Dublin includes a collected edition of Wesley, ‘elegantly printed’ in 32 volumes. ESTC T103515. BL and NLS only in ESTC/WorldCat.