Price: £600
Subject: Theology
Published Date: 1704
Stock Number: 52189
(Your basket is currently empty)Two Discourses, (viz.) I. A beam of divine glory: Or, The Unchangeableness of God Opened, Vindicated, and Improved. II. The Soul's Rest in God. Very useful to quiet the Minds of Christians, when discomposed on the Account of Man's Mortality, and the Mutability of Humane Affairs. The Third Edition.
Description: with an engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, browned, front inner hinge strained and frontispiece attached only to fly-leaf, pp. 168 (including frontispiece), 12mo, original calf, worn at extremities, small patches of surface loss on lower cover where the leather has been torn, soundPublication Details: Printed for J. Robinson and B. Aylmer, 1704
Notes: These two discourses were first published, without the combined title, in 1674, following the author's death at about the age of 40. ESTC has two entries for a 1687 edition, one specifically Second Edition (Inverpeffray only; the other St. John's College, Oxford only - Pearce's college), but they appear to be the same: no 1687 edition is in Wing. Of the present edition ESTC records 3 copies in the UK and 1 in the US (Folger). Pearse was an ejected minister.A rather charming contemporary inscription is on the flyleaf: 'Favour is deceitful and Buty [sic] is vain but a Woman that feareth the Lor...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T95894 )
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