Die Ernsthafte Christenpflicht
Subtitle: Darinnen schöne geistreiche Gebäter, darmit sich fromme Christen-Herzen zu allen Zeiten und in allen Nöthen trösten können
Publisher: [Drucks der Gemeinschaft]
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Ephrata [Pa.]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Mennonites; Devotional exercises
Notes: Signatures: A-Q⁶ R⁴ [inverted parens.]⁶ [dagger]⁶ [sec.]⁶.

Error in paging: p. 194, 195 misnumbered 195, 194.

"Fürstellung der vornehmsten Articulen unsers allgemeinen christlichen Glaubens, wie dieselben in unsrer Gemeine durchaus gelehret und belebet werden."--[34] p. at end.

Evans 19002

Bötte, G.-J. First century of German language printing in the United States of America, 623

From the collection of Clarence E. Spohn. Provenance: acquired from Timothy Hawley Books, Louisville, Ky. This copy from the Pennypacker library was sold at the public auction of the Pennypacker collection by Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, Part VII, held Nov. 27 and Nov. 28, 1908, it was lot #163 in the auction and sold at that time for $1.25.

Full leather binding with brass clasp, minor spine chipping. The book's front end-sheet contains the bookplate of Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker, a noted collector of Pennsylvania German imprints.