Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysicks, Ethicks, and Theology. [Metaphysics, Ethics]

Portland, [Maine]: Arthur Shirley, 1824. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine, faint pencil name and date on front endpaper, pages toned. 1824 Full-Leather. 414 pp. A work on metaphysical and ethical theory by the American minister and theologian who studied at Dartmouth and Middlebury College. Burton argues that people have a natural predisposition to sin, and echoes Jonathan Edwards's views regarding the will as a manifestation of the human heart.