8vo. [2], 70pp. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Rubbed, with loss to spine and browning to wrappers. Shelf-label pasted to upper wrapper. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to title. Leaves browned, particularly to edges.

The first edition of three letters addressed to methodist leader John Wesley (1703-1791), opposing the methodist movement, by Unitarian General Baptist William Kingston (c.1749-1812), of Barton Mills, Kent. Kingston's quarrel stems from a sermon preached by Wesley on the 28th of October, 1788, in which he alleged that when 'a sinner is just awakened to see his state as a Sinner, the people called Anabaptists, begin to trouble him about outward forms and modes of Worship, and that of Baptism; but they had better cut his throat, for it is sending of him to Hell and perdition'; the Baptist's response accuses the Methodists of adopting the unfaithful and undecided into their ranks, and emphasises the declarative certainty of Baptism in establishing Christian faith.