The Great Importance of a Religious Life Considered.

• imprint_number: 1802.043
• title: The great importance of a religious life considered by the late William Melmoth, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn, London. From the twenty-third London edition. To which are added, prefatory observations on the credibility of the Christian religion; and, a few concise observations on prayer.
• sequence_number: 43
• year: 1802
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Cottom & Stewart, for Samuel Bishop.
• author: Melmoth, William (1666-1743).
• notes: Dated at the end of Bishop's editorial introduction: "Alexandria, January 1, 1802."
  Bishop was a bookseller and stationer in Alexandria between 1799 to 1803 who specialized in London imprints and American reprintings of such; this title was his own reprinting of a Melmoth title from the 1740s with additional remarks targeting Thomas Paine's Age of Reason (1795) by Soame Jenyn, William Paley, and Robert Hall.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Samuel Bishop
  • Peter Cottom
  • John Ainsworth Stewart

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