Accounts of Religious Revivals in Many Parts of the United States from 1815 to 1818. Collected from numerous Publications, and Letters from Persons of piety and correct information

Albany, NY: Printed by G.J. Loomis & Co, 1819. First Edition. 300pp. Sextodecimo [14.5 cm] Full sheep with gilt bands and title on the backstrip. Near fine. Sporadic foxing throughout. Joshua Bradley, was the pastor of churches in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and New York, he first affirmed and later renounced freemasonry, creating no small stir among his former masonic brethren. As a mason, he published a defense of freemasonry in 1816 while pastoring in Vermont. At that time, Bradley was a member of Newport Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Chaplain of the Washington Encampment of Newport. However, about a decade later, while preparing to defend (truncated) freemasonry against the rising tide of antimasonry, he altered his views and abruptly did an about face, renouncing freemasonry in the light of the antimasonic movement then causing chaos in the country, citing the murder of William Morgan as one reason. He became a vocal antagonist of freemasonry. (Inventory #: 9897)