Nicholas Bownd on the change of the sabbath day

I haven't promoted this of late but it is available quite inexpensively from either Naphtali Press or Reformation Heritage Books. This two page extract (120-121) from Book 1 chapter 5 (pp 103-136) on the change of the day is from Nicholas Bownd's True Doctrine of the Sabbath available at Naphtali Press and Reformation Heritage Books. http://www.naphtali.com/store/produ...stamenti-or-the-true-doctrine-of-the-sabbath/

This is one of my most treasured books in my paper book library. Highly recommended.

Ask Mr. Religion said:

This is one of my most treasured books in my paper book library. Highly recommended.

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That's high praise certainly; much appreciated. I picked up my errata copy I mark up (though I don't expect another edition) and don't know the guy who did all the work; I mean, some of what I had to do on Bownd, I don't think I could do that again.

Every time I pick it up I imagine you with piles of materials on your desk trudging through arcane sources just to get the footnote right.

The last part is right; usually it was online or at the library; no in between.

The note on p. 120 regarding the Chrysostom in the excerpt above that is documented on p. 333 was an interesting problem and resulting footnote; not the most puzzling I've had but still; and I did get some excellent help as noted there.

If you spare another, but also long, footnote story.... The record for how long it took to solve a problem reference was years in the case of a reference in John Carstares dedication to the Durham sermons on Rev. 14:13. I first published Durham's seven sermons in the first two issues (1#1 and 1#2) of the Naphtali Press Anthology of Presbyterian & Reformed Literature (1988). Newbie that I was, amongst I'm sure many rookie mistakes, I left off the prefacing material by Carstares. An early PC crash between then and 1990 that nearly wiped out my Durham on Scandal (twin brother, being 'helpful', was re-positioning my pc on the desk while it was running for better placement and he dropped it and you could hear the heads fly across the hard disk) took care of most of the files of those early issues of the Anthology. So in 2000 thinking I would do something with them I had them scanned and proof read for mistakes and typed up the dedication and preface by Carstares. At that time (between March and October 28, 2000, the only version of the file I have) I first flagged his reference to something said by a "profane pamphleteer" and to check other examples if there was a reference since the page was trimmed. At some point in the last few years I found there was nothing to find in other examples and then in my final stab at it finishing them up for the collected Durham, in 2016 (June 24, 2016 is the date of the bookmark I saved) I hit on the right combination of words or it was only then that the particular 17th century book was online in a version sufficiently scanned, that I found the reference (which actually resolved several oblique references to the same work). Then there's this one from the same dedication which may be a record for reopening a PB thread. https://www.puritanboard.com/thread...and-where-did-he-say-that.66316/#post-1111880

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Chris, I've been blessed by your labors often. I love the fact that your work seems to be this blending of gifting and passion. That edifies me as much as the works produced by it.

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Then there's this one from the same dedication which may be a record for reopening a PB thread. https://www.puritanboard.com/thread...and-where-did-he-say-that.66316/#post-1111880

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That you were even able to recall that stale post to provide an update is wonderment enough.

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That you were even able to recall that stale post to provide an update is wonderment enough.

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I may not have; maybe either found it as I was revisiting the search or found it as I was going to brag about finding it finally. The only reason I could get a sense of the time is my memory of dates (not) is stored in my email archive.

Thanks Kipp; that's very nice to hear; though I think the 'gift' may be some form of OCD about things not being perfect unless all questions are answered. My least liked footnotes are the ones that run along the lines of 'after much effort, it's still not clear what is going on here.'

KSon said:

Chris, I've been blessed by your labors often. I love the fact that your work seems to be this blending of gifting and passion. That edifies me as much as the works produced by it.

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NaphtaliPress said:

That's high praise certainly; much appreciated. I picked up my errata copy I mark up (though I don't expect another edition) and don't know the guy who did all the work; I mean, some of what I had to do on Bownd, I don't think I could do that again.

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A friend and member of this board gifted a copy to me. I was beyond impressed by your scholarship, evidenced by the comprehensive introduction and footnotes. I cannot even imagine collating the 1595 edition with the 1606. Really an awesome job of work, in the true sense of the word.

I appreciate your noting the care. I was too naive when I started the work in 1993 and keep putting it off and realized when I finally saw the nature of the work a couple of years ago, I could not have even done the work in 1993. I demur from the term scholar unless understood it comes from the school of hard knocks and am fine with amateur status otherwise, or as Van Dixhoorn compliments, a private scholar.

JimmyH said:

I was beyond impressed by your scholarship, evidenced by the comprehensive introduction and footnotes.

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