The Primitive Revelation of a Divine and Incarnate Saviour, Traced in the History and Rites of Bacchus

Two essays: one critiques competing Church–State theories and urges revived evangelistic zeal; the other traces pagan myths (notably Bacchus) as corrupted preservations of primitive revelation pointing to Christ.

Thomas Smyth was an Irish-born American Presbyterian minister and theologianwho served as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for over four decades, authored numerous works defending Presbyterian polity and doctrine, and held to Old School confessional standards while engaging major issues of his day. He also wrote The Unity of the Human Races Proved to Be the Doctrine of Scripture defending monogenism and was a prominent religious figure in the antebellum and Civil War South.

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