The Complete Duty of Man, or A system of Doctrinal and Practical Christianity. By H. Venn. **IN CONTEMPORARY FINE LEATHER BINDING** A new edition : carefully revised and corrected, with a Memoir of the Author. LONDON : 1845.

London: Religious Tract Society (RTS) 56 Paternoster Row, 1845. New Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Frontis-portrait. LONDON : 1845. [ First published in 1763.]. NEW EDITION - CAREFULLY REVISED WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. Hardback. Portrait. Full calf-leather binding of the period. Raised bands. Gilt lettered spine. Cover lettered with 'The Gift of the Royal Caledonian Asylum'; to cover. Edges sprinkled. Lemon end-papers. Frontispiece; portrait of the author with tissue-guard. Tight, bright and clean. A nice copy. No owner name or markings. NEAR FINE. (xxxvi), 418 pages. SCARCE EDITION in FINE LEATHER BINDING. HENRY VENN (1725-1797), was an English evangelical minister and one of the founders of the Clapham Sect, a small but highly influential evangelical group within the Anglican Church. 'The Compleat Duty of Man' (London, 1763), a work in which he intended to supplement the teaching embodied in the anonymous 'Whole Duty of Man' from an evangelical perspective. A portrait of him, by John Russell, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Venn was a key member the 'Clapham Sect' - its members were chiefly prominent and wealthy evangelical Anglicans who shared common political views concerning the liberation of slaves, the abolition of the slave trade and the reform of the penal system. The group's name originates from Clapham, then a village south of London (today part of south-west London), where both Wilberforce and Thornton, the sect's two most influential leaders, resided and where many of the group's meetings were held. They were supported by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, who sympathised with many of their aims. **The Complete Duty of Man, or A system of Doctrinal and Practical Christianity : To which are added forms of Prayer and offices of Devotion for the various circumstances of life. By H. Venn. New Edition., Carefully Revised and corrected.** 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick. Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]