1731 ISAAC WATTS. A Plea for a Revival of Religion. Rare First Edition

Watts, Isaac. An Humble Attempt toward the Revival of Practical Religion among Christians, And particularly the Protestant Dissenters, by a Serious Address to Ministers and People, In some Occasional Discourses. London: E. Matthews, 1731. First Edition. 360pp. A very scarce work predating the Great Awakening in which Watts pleads for revival, "Oh let us stir up our hearts, and all that is within us, and strive mightily in prayer and in preaching to revive the work of God, and beg earnestly that God, by a fresh and abundant effusion of his own Spirit would revive his own work among us. . . O let us rouse our souls with all holy fervour to fulfil our ministry, for 'twill be a dreadful reproach upon us, and a burden too heavy for us to bear, if we let the cause of Christ and godliness die under our hands for want of lively zeal and pious ferour and faithfulness in our ministrations." Binding sympathetically [expertly; nearly perfect] repaired with a new front board, end papers, and the or