Author: Herbert, Joseph
Biography:
HERBERT, Joseph (fl 1832)
The Wedding Garment is Herbert’s only known work. A mixture of prose and verse in about equal proportions (roughly 100 pages of each), it is addressed as “a word of advice to those who expect to be saved by their own works.” A reviewer dismissed it as a curiosity but warned that in the “feverish zeal” with which it promoted the doctrine of justification by faith it came perilously close to antinomianism. The printer and bookseller J. C. Bridgewater, of South Molton St., off Oxford St., London, was at this time working for both conformist and nonconformist clients. It is likely that Herbert lived locally but the name is too common to pin down. (ancestry.com 3 May 2022; findmypast.com 3 May 2022; Imperial Magazine [1832] 489; WorldCat)