Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St Paul
Milton PA: Published by Stephen Wilson / Henry Frick Printer, 1834.
Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #16259
Edgeworn and rubbed covers, toned with light foxing, pages 5-8 nearly detached, old dampstains not affecting legibility, scribble on back of title page, modern owner's label on front paste-down, wear. Still solid hardcover. ; Uncommon Pennsylvania imprint, not listed in American Imprints. "Gilbert West and Lord Lyttleton were two cynical young students who lived in the eighteenth century. They set out to disprove Christianity. They agreed that the two strongest evidences for Christianity were the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the conversion of Saint Paul. So Lyttleton offered to disprove the conversion of Paul to Christianity, and West offered to disprove the resurrection. When they met again sometime after they had begun their two projects, both were shamefaced. West said, “As I have investigated the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, I have come to believe that there is something to it, and I am going to write my book from that perspective.” Lyttleton said, “The same thing has happened to me. I have come to see that there was something to the conversion of Saint Paul, and I am going to write my book from that perspective.” So they did. Lyttleton's book was entitled Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of Saint Paul, and it concluded that Saul of Tarsus was converted by a genuine appearance of the resurrected Christ, because there are no circumstances or motives that could have led him to make that profession otherwise." - James Boice; "The Conversion of Saint Paul, Part 1"; Think and Act Biblically. The publisher, Stephen Wilson. was appointed Postmaster at Milton, Pennsylvania in 1837 and served until 1841. ; 121 pages.
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