A Lecture on the Deluge: Delivered in the City Hall, Charlestown, Mass., on Sunday Evening, January 9, 1853

Boston, Massachusetts: Bazin & Chandler, 1853. Very Good. [Biblical Studies] A Lecture on the Deluge: Delivered in the City Hall, Charlestown, Mass., on Sunday Evening, January 9, 1853. Bazin & Chandler, Boston, Massachusetts, 1853. 29pp. 9 x 5 5/8 inches.

Light brown string-tied pamphlet with black imprint on front. Some foxing, light soiling and chipping. Interior exhibits light foxing. Very Good.

Lecture by Robert Townley (1816-1894) debunking the biblical story of the great deluge of forty days and nights of rain. "The science of Geology, however, demonstrates that the faith [deluge] is a superstition which has no foundation in fact." Townley was a pastor at Boston's First Universalist Church and a known Preterist, or one who holds that the prophecies in the Bible about the End Times have already been fulfilled. 6 copies found in institutions including 4 in the United States (Columbia, Harvard, State Library of Mass and Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky) as of January 2023.