1798-1804 EBENEZER GRANT MARSH. Early Defense of Literal Creation Account as Science. Family Provenance. Premillennialism Manning & Loring

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1798-1804 EBENEZER GRANT MARSH. Early Defense of Literal Creation Account as Science. Family Provenance. Premillennialism Manning & LoringA rather scarce copy of Ebenezer Grant Marsh's 1798 landmark work, An Oration on the Truth of the Mosaic History of the Creation, sold with two sermons preached upon his untimely death, at just 26 years of age. The work represents an early American intellectual defense of traditional biblical authority during the height of the Enlightenment. Writing at a time when skepticism and early scientific rationalism were beginning to challenge literal