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The Review and Herald Publishing Association was the older of two Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America. The organization published books, magazines, study guides, CDs, videos and games for Adventist churches, schools and individual subscribers. It also printed and distributed the Adventist Review magazine. In 2014 the Review ...
3 Book of martyrs: An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion. 4 "Z." (Hannah More) The carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. 5 The cock-fighter: A true history. 6 Isaac Watts Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children. 7 Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of The Gentleman Highwayman. 8
The first of the Scots tracts was The History of Maitland Smith, published in 1807 to raise funds to support the family of the executed criminal in the title. Other titles included The Happy daughter, or the history of Jean Morton. by Elizabeth Hamilton (writer). A 2nd collected edition ‘corrected and greatly enlarged’ was published in ...
Between 1829 and 1851 the firm published two series of the Cheap Repository Tracts with the imprints of J.G. & F. and J.G.F. & J. Rivington on behalf of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. These were printed by R. Gilbert (latterly Gilbert & Rivington), as both individual tracts and in collected editions.
One Half Penny Book Series; Pamphlet series; The Pen and Pencil Series; Penny Tales for the People; Picture Books for Little Children; Present Day Primers [31] Present Day Tracts; R.T.S. Books for the People, also known as: R.T.S. 1d. Penny Books for the People; The R.T.S. Library [27] Sandringham Series of Penny Stories; Sea Sermons; Second ...
The Tracts also provoked a secondary literature from opponents. Significant replies came from evangelicals, including that of William Goode in Tract XC Historically Refuted (1845) and Isaac Taylor. [3] The term "Tractarian" applied to followers of Keble, Pusey and Newman (the Oxford Movement) was used by 1839, in sermons by Christopher Benson. [4]
As religious literature, tracts were used throughout the turbulence of the Protestant Reformation and the various upheavals of the 17th century. They came to such prominence again in the Oxford Movement for reform within the Church of England that the movement became known as "Tractarianism", after the publication in the 1830s and 1840s of a series of religious essays collectively called ...
The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology.