SOBER REMARKS ON A BOOK LATELY REPRINTED AT BOSTON, ENTITULED, A MODEST PROOF OF THE ORDER & GOVERNMENT SETTLED BY CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES IN THE CHURCH.

Wigglesworth, Edward 1693-1765

Verlag: Boston in N.E. Printed for Samuel Gerrish, and sold at his shop near the Brick meeting-house in Cornhill,, 1724

Beschreibung

Second edition. 12mo. 4 p.l., 126 pp. Later red half morocco. Edward Wigglesworth, first Hollis Professor at Harvard, was the son of Michael Wigglesworth, author of The Day of Doom. In 1720 John Checkley was convicted and fined by the General Court for upholding the doctrines of the church of England against the teachings of the New England divines. The appearance of his "Modest Proof"--criticizing principles, practices and interests too vital to be ignored--was most disturbing to the Mathers and other leaders, and Edward Wigglesworth was persuaded to write the above answer, to which Checkley in turn replied in his "Defence". Boston, 1724 (Sabin 12362). The whole Checkley controversy is reviewed in Slafter's "John Checkley", 2 vols. Prince Society, 1897. This is the second edition, with an explanation of the additions and changes in the preface. Binding rubbed otherwise a fine copy bearing the bookplate of William G. Mather a direct descendant of Richard, Increase, Cotton and Samuel Mather. Sabin103904; Evans 2995. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M-10

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Titel: SOBER REMARKS ON A BOOK LATELY REPRINTED AT ...

Verlag: Boston in N.E. Printed for Samuel Gerrish, and sold at his shop near the Brick meeting-house in Cornhill,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1724

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 2nd Edition