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1856 THOS. O. SUMMERS. A Refutation of the Theological Works of Thomas Paine. Nashville Methodist. ZZAmericanaandHistory and ones in which heIn 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,