1797 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Inscribed First Edition of One of the Most Important Books in Christian History. Miracles who ran to us with

who ran to us with his back terribly scarred

Early paper label chipped

A Treatise of Church Discipline

especially toward extremities of sheet

and in 1890

1797 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Inscribed First Edition of One of the Most Important Books in Christian History. Miracles who ran to us withWhat a wonderful item. By now, for those acquainted with Church history anyway, the story is something of a commonplace. The power of books is displayed in the history of Wilberforce's classic text. Traveling all the way back in time to the puritan era, a young Richard Baxter picked up Richards Sibbes' 1630 classic The Bruised Reed. There he found Christ and became a Christian. In time, Baxter himself penned his Call to the Unconverted to Turn and