In the aftermath of Thomas Paine's influential [to put it mildly] Age of Reason, Richard Watson authored what would become the standard response. Watson's work was issued repeatedly in cheap form, notably as part of the Christian Library Series by the American Tract Society, and distributed far and wide. 

Thomas Sommers, a notable Methodist divine from Tennessee and important educator among the Methodists felt that important arguments of Paine, indeed, entire lines of thought, were left unanswered. Additionally, some of Paine's responses [to Watson and Erskine] appeared to have been left unanswered. So he set out to, not replace, but supplement Watson's work.

The present is the first edition of that supplement. It was an immediate success and later was often printed together with Watson's seminal response. 

Rare in the original Nashville imprint. 

Summers, Thos. O. A Refutation of the Theological Works of Thomas Paine, Not Noticed by Bishop Watson in His "Apology for the Bible." Nashville. Published by E. Stevenson & J. E. Evans, Agents. 1856. 84pp.

A good copy, bound in cloth, shaken, with moderate foxing and sporadic staining throughout.