A Short And Easy Method With The Deists And Jews [short Title]. A Short And Easie Method With The Deists..
Bound in original calf with blind stamped decorative panel on boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands. Extremities worn and hinges and joints weak. Some edge stains and worming in margins from rear paste down, diminishing to front, not affecting legibility of text. Early ownership inscriptions of Mary Harvey and flourishes on front and rear paste downs. Slight spotting but otherwise a fine copy.
£150.00
Details
THEOLOGICAL APOLOGETICS BY A JACOBITE CLERGYMAN
Publisher
Printed for Geo. Strahan at the Golden-Ball, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, London.,
Date
1715
Synopsis
Wherein the certainty of the christian religion is demonstrated by infallible proof from the four rules, which are incompatible to any imposture that ever yet has been, or that can possibly be. in a letter to a friend. the fourth edition corrected. to which is added a second part to the jews. shewing that these four rules do oblige them as much, or more than the deists to the acknowledgement of christ. with an answer to the most material of their objections, and prejudices against christianity. the fourth edition corrected.
Item Description
8vo. 4.5 x 7 inches. [6] + xiv + 52 pp.; [4] + [2] + vii + [7] + 222 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Half-title and advertisement page at beginning. Separate title pages for The Deists, The Fourth Edition, 1711 and for The Jews, The Third Edition Corrected, 1715 and separate pagination and register.
Notes
'The best known of his apologetical works was the Short Method with the Deists (1694), which...became a classic theological resigns to deism and continued to be reprinted well into the nineteenth century' (DNB). It defended Trinitarian orthodoxy, the principle of satisfaction and the historicity of the biblical miracles. The second part on The Jews (dated 1689) reiterates the arguments for the Christian Gospels fulfilling the Jewish law but also draws parallels between the Jews and the reformed protestant religions which rejected episcopacy. Although published anonymously, these two works are known to have been written by Charles Leslie (1650-1722), a nonjuring Church of Ireland clergyman, who later resided in England. In spite of his opposition to Roman Catholicism, he became a strong Jacobite and tory supporter after the Revolution of 1688-89, spending several periods in exile abroad and serving as protestant chaplain to the exiled Stuart court in France and Italy. He was a prolific writer on political and theological subjects. This combination of the two editions is scarce and ESTC records copies in only two UK libraries, Worcester College, Oxford and the Brotherton, Leeds.
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