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Edward Ward, 1667-1731.
Dancing Devils, or, The Roaring Dragon: 1724
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A dumb farce, as it was lately acted at both houses, but particularly at one, with unaccountable success (London: Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth ... J. Bately ... J. Brotherton ... , 1724). This is the original Tract without covers in a very fine condition. Its Rare for Tracts to survive from the 18th. Century. It has 68 pages and is very clean. it’s the last copy in private hands. I offer this very Rare Tract. Edward "Ned" Ward (1667-1731) Edward Ward became a prolific and popular writer during the era of British settlement of the Caribbean. Born in England, Ward eventually learned how to earn a living by writing. He traveled to Port Royal, Jamaica, and returned the following year to publish A Trip to Jamaica (1698), a parody of the promotional tracts often used to recruit settlers to the Americas. His popular account, originally published anonymously, appeared in at least seven editions, and Ward's future publications bore his name, followed by the inscription, "By the Author of A Trip To Jamaica." The following year, he drew upon the success of A Trip to Jamaica, by publishing A Trip to New England (1699). Scholars who have studied Ward agree that Ward's claim to have traveled to New England is dubious. He probably drew his materials primarily from John Josselyn's accounts of his 1638 and 1663 voyages to that area. Ward built upon and exaggerated Josselyn's description of the people, customs and laws, climate, and natural life of New England. Ward remained a popular and prolific journalist throughout the first decade of the eighteenth-century. He died in Fulwood's Rents in 1731. Ward's A Trip to Jamaica (1698) is printed in Early American Writings, Gen. Ed. Carla Mulford, Assoc. Eds. Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans (Oxford University Press, 2001). A Trip to New England (1699) is presented in its entirety below.

John Arrowsmith (1602 –1659) 
The Covenant-avenging Sword Brandished;- 1643.
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Published by Samual Man, London, 1643/1644. Original binding, some slight wear, otherwise a fine copy of a Rare book. Made up of many Tracts of Sermons by Arrowsmith. With index to the back page. . Its Rare/scarce. John Arrowsmith was born near Gateshead and entered St Johns College, Cambridge in 1616. In 1623 he entered the fellowship of St Catherine Hall, Cambridge.[1] In 1631 he became a preacher at King's Lynn, Norfolk. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly and preached to the Long Parliament on a number of occasions. He was elected as Master of St Johns, Cambridge on 11 April 1644. In 1645 he became rector of St Martin Pomary, London.[2] He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1647-48. In 1651, he was elected Regius Professor of Divinity, and, in 1653, Master of Trinity College. He resigned his professorship in 1655 and died February 1659, in Cambridge. The Covenant-avenging Sword Brandished (1643) Englands Eben-ezer (1645) A Great Wonder in Heaven (1647) Armilla Catechetica (Cambridge, 1659)

John Selden,  
or, 
God made Man.
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A Tract Proving the Nativity of Our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. London, Printed by J. G. for Nathaniel Brooks ... 1661. Description 8vo, title within border of type-ornaments, the last 21 pp. being a catalogue of books sold by Brooks 'at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill', including 'Books in the Press and now printing'. Contemporary binding, wrapping the original Tract; Seldon who is perhaps responsible for two long and scholarly notes at p. 40, on Selden's treatment of eastern church history in other works. First and only edition. The C17 version of the controversy over the birth-date of Jesus was fueled in part by Puritan antiquaries, to whom the popular celebration of Christmas was repugnant. Selden, while admitting that the traditional date stems from 'about 400 years after our Saviour', took his arguments from the history of its observance in the early Church, and its relation to the pagan winter solstice festival. I offer this Rare. A must for any serious collector.

The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, an historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchic by Prynne, William -1641 Book description: London: Michael Sparke senior, 1641. 2 vols. 4to. (significant pagination errors, text complete). First edition, in two volumes. Part II has "Articles of accusation and impeachment by the Commons House of Parliament against William Pierce, Doctor of Divinity, and Bishop of Bath and Wells" bound between pp. 304 and 305. The two parts in this case came from not only different binders but also different printing variants: ESTC describes two states of the title-page, one with line 10 ending ’anti-monarchi-’ and the other ’anti-mo-’. Prynne was a Puritan pamphleteer whose attackes on the established Church lead to his imprisonment, judicially ordered mutilation and branding as a seditious libeler. He supported the return of Charles II to the throne. The 2 Vol. is bounded together in one vol. its again very Rare, in original binding with the spine re-backed, with gilt lettering to the top. Beautiful throughout…and very collectable.

Robert Bolton,
A DISCOURSE ABOUT THE STATE OF TRUE HAPPINESSE /
 SOME GENERALL DIRECTIONS FOR A COMFORTABLE WALK WITH GOD
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Imprint: London, John Legett;- For Edmund Weauer, 1636 Binding: Hardcover Two volumes bound together. "Discourse" Is the Fifth Edition, corrected and revised. " Comfortable Walk" is the Sixth Edition with table added. Original boards, and rebacked spine. Rear endpapers have been removed. Occasional foxing and discoloration , otherwise a very fine book;- Bolton was a sinner and sceptic who lead a reformed life as a preacher and was adept at converting those with a tenuous relationship with the church. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 215+391 pages, and 5 pages of Tables. Very Rare in this condition as other been sold on the net are missing pages, this is missing none. 

1661 Prynne, William [1600-1669]. Published by Edward Thomas 1661. 2nd printing. The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus and of the Angel of the Church of Ephesus: Or A Brief Elaborate Discourse, Proving Timothy and the Angel to be No First, Sole, or Diocesan Bishop of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete; and That the Power of Ordination, or Imposition of Hands, Belongs to Jure Divino to Presbyters, as Well as to Bishops, and Not to Bishops only, as Bishops; Who by Divine Institution are Evidenced to be One and the Same with Presbyters, and Many Over One City, Church, Not One Over Many City or Churches. [London]: First Compiled, Printed in the Year 1636. Reprinted with additions...1661...for Edward Thomas. Expertly rebacked onto the original binding. Ex-library. Later printing of second edition (1660). William Prynne was a contentious and erudite Puritan attorney and onetime keeper of records for Parliament who is remembered for his numerous books and pamphlets about legal history, religion and politics, and for his ability to antagonize others. He was particularly critical of the court and clergy during the reign of Charles I. His personality and choice of targets eventually led to his disbarment, imprisonment, and mutilation (loss of ears) by Star Chamber. Both qualities distinguish the present work, a spirited attack on the doctrine that limits the right of ordination to bishops.

A Collection of Eighteen Papers Relating to the Affairs of Church and State, During the Reign of King James the Second (1689)
By Gilbert Burnet;
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Published by John Starkey 1689. Original binding with re-backed spine. Some foxing to the endpapers. Otherwise a very Rare book. Very Collectable. None available on the world-wide net. I offer this for above price including postage English bishop and historian, born in Edinburgh on the 18th of September 1643, of an ancient and distinguished Scottish house. He was the youngest son of Robert Burnet, who at the Restoration became a lord of session with the title of Lord Crimond. Robert Burnet had refused to sign the Scottish Covenant, although the document was drawn up by his brother-in-law, Archibald Johnstorie, Lord Warristoun. He therefore found it necessary to retire from his profession, and twice went into exile. He disapproved of the rising of the Scots, but was none the less a severe critic of the government of Charles I and of the action of the Scottish bishops.

The Sermons of M. John Calvin vpon the fifth booke of Moses, called Deuteronomie: 1585
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Translated by Arthur Golding. 1583 Faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open Pulpit; together with a preface of the Ministers of the Church of Geneva, and an admonishment made by the Deacons there: Also there are annexed two profitable Tables, one containing the chief matters, the other the places of Scripture herein alledged. Translated out of French by Arthur. Golding. Dedicated " To Syr Thomas Bromley Knight, Lord Chancelour of England, & c -- 21 Dec. 1582." H. Middleton, printer. Folio. London Printing in English 1583. Complete with title page and leather binding. ARTHUR GOLDING: Brief Biography ;- The prolific translator Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was a younger son born into a family of considerable substance, especially within the influential Puritan ranks. Although his older brothers had attained considerable wealth, Golding's life was one of financial insecurity, proof that literary fame during that period carried little commensurate monetary reward. Married, with seven children, the death of an older brother left him temporarily a wealthy man. The properties, however, had been mortgaged to the Queen; and other encumbrances finally drained the resources he had inherited. Notwithstanding a large body of work and a number of wealthy and influential patrons, Golding's finances reached a low ebb in 1593 when he was put into the Fleet Prison for debt. Possible help came from his family, and Louis Golding suggests that William Brooke, Lord Cobham (a close friend of Cecil), may have been of assistance [Golding, pp. 105-106]. Golding died in 1606, as noted in the Parish Register of Belchamp St.Paul's (May 13, 1606): "Mr. Arthur Golding, Esquire." This is a very Rare Book of the 16th. Century. An extremely scarce edition of a very important work. No copies are available on the world-wide web.

Pentateuchi Samaritani origine, indole, et auctoritate;-
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by GESENIUS, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1786-1842), German orientalist and biblical critic, was born at Nordhausen, Hanover, on the 3rd of February 1786. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the university of Helmstadt, where Heinrich Henke (1752-1809) was his most influential teacher; but the latter part of his university course was taken at Gottingen, where J.·G. Eichhorn and T. C. Tychsen (1758-1834) were then at the height of their popularity. In 1806, shortly after graduation, he became Repetent and Privatdozent in that university; and, as he was fond of afterwards relating, had Neander for his first pupil in Hebrew. In 1810 he became professor extraordinarius in theology, and in 1811 ordinarius, at the university of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life. He taught with great regularity for upward of thirty years, the only interruptions being that of 1813-1814 (occasioned by the War of Liberation, during which the university was closed) and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, first in 1820 to Paris, London and Oxford with his colleague Johann Karl Thilo (1794-1853) for the examination of rare oriental manuscripts, and in 1835 to England and Holland in connexion with his Phoenician studies. He soon became the most popular teacher of Hebrew and of Old Testament introduction and exegesis in Germany, during his later years his lectures were attended by nearly five hundred students. Among his pupils the most eminent were Peter von Bohlen (1796-1840), A. G. Hoffmann (1769-1864), Hermann Hupfeld, Emil Rodiger (1801-1874), J. F. Tuch (1806-1867), W. Vatke (1806-1882) and Theodor Benfey (1809-1881). In 1827, after declining an invitation to take Eichhorn's place at Göttingen, Gesenius was made a Consistorialrath; but, apart from the violent attacks to which he, along with his friend and colleague Julius Wegscheider, was in 1830 subjected by E. W. Hengstenberg and his party in the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, on account of his rationalism, his life was uneventful. He died at Halle on the 23rd of October 1842. To Gesenius belongs in a large measure the credit of having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and of inaugurating the strictly scientific (and comparative) method which has since been so fruitful. As an exegete he exercised a powerful, and on the whole a beneficial, influence on theological investigation. Of his many works, the earliest, published in 1810, entitled Versuch uber die maltesische Sprache, was a successful refutation of the widely current opinion that the modern Maltese was of Punic origin. In the same year appeared the first volume of the Hebraisches u. Chaldaisches Handworterbuch, completed in 1812. Revised editions of this appear periodically in Germany, e.g. that of H. Zimmern and F. Buhl (1905). The publication of a new English edition was started in 1892 under the editorship of Professors C. A. Briggs, S. R. Driver and F. Brown. The Hebraische Grammatik, published in 1813 (27th edition by E. Kautzsch; English translation from 25th and 26th German editions by G. W. Collins and A. E. Cowley, 1898), was followed in 1815 by the Geschichte der hebraischen Sprache (now very rare), and in 1817 by the Ausfuhrliches Lehrgebaude der hebraischen Sprache. The first volume of his well-known commentary on Isaiah (Der Prophet Jesaja), with a translation, appeared in 1821; but the work was not completed until 1829. The Thesaurus philologico-criticus linguae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae V.T., begun in 1829, he did not live to complete; the latter part of the third volume is edited by E. Rodiger (1858). Other works: De Pentateuchi Samaritani origine, indole, et auctoritate (1815), supplemented in 1822 and 1824 by the treatise De Samaritanorum theologia, and by an edition of Carmina Samaritana; Palaographische Studien fiber phdnizische u. punische Schrift (1835), a pioneering work which he followed up in 1837 by his collection of Phoenician monuments (Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta quotquot supersunt); an Aramaic lexicon (1834-1839); and a treatise on the Himyaritic language written in conjunction with E. Rodiger in 1841. Gesenius also contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopadie, and enriched the German translation of J. L. Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land with valuable geographical notes. For many years he also edited the Halle Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung. A sketch of his life was published anonymously in 1843 (Gesenius: eine Erinnerung fiir seine Freunde), and another by H. Gesenius, Wilhelm Gesenius, ein Erinnerungsblatt an den hundertjdhrigen Geburtstag, in 1886. See also the article in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie;- No other copy exists on the world-wide net

Theory Of Dreams 
in Which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind;-
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By Robert Gray;- Publisher F. C. And J. Rivington 1808 Published 1st. Edition in Two Vols. In one. Rebound in leather spine and corners. A stunning Rare book. Robert Gray (1762–1834) was an English bishop of Bristol. Born 11 March 1762, he was the son of Robert Gray, a London silversmith. Having entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford, he graduated B.A. 1784, M. A, 1787, B.D. 1799, and D.D. 1802. Soon after 1790 he was presented to the vicarage of Faringdon, Berkshire. In 1796 he was appointed Bampton lecturer, and his discourses were published the same year, under the title of 'Sermons on the Principles upon which the Reformation of the Church of England was established.' Through the favour of Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham, he was promoted, in 1800, to the rectory of Crayke, Yorkshire, and resigned Faringdon; in 1804 he was collated by Barrington to the seventh stall in Durham Cathedral, and again, in 1805, to the rectory of Bishopswearmouth, and resigned Crayke. He held this living, in which he had succeeded William Paley, until his elevation, in 1827, to the bishopric of Bristol. During the Bristol riots of 1831, when one of the minor canons suggested a postponement of divine service, since the rioters were masters of the city, Gray replied that it was his duty to be at his post. The 3rd Dragoon Guards violently suppressing the Bristol Riots of 1831. The service was held as usual, and he was himself the preacher. Before the close of the evening his palace was burned to the ground, and the loss which he sustained was estimated at £10,000. He died at Rodney House, Clifton, 28 Sept. 1834, and was buried in the graveyard attached to Bristol Cathedral. A marble monument by Edward H. Bayly was erected in the cathedral.

Michael de MEDINA.
1564
Christianae Paraenesis, sive de recta in deum fide libri septem. Venice, Iordani Zileti, 1564.
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(colophon Venice Ioan. Gryphius). Folio, old style calf gilt. Woodcut on title, headpieces and initial letters Author and title inked on fore-edges. (old library stamp on title, lacking final leaf, presumably blank;- Since all 3 Adams Copies lack it. Adams M 2021. Seven copies listed on Copac. No records on ABPC. Or any Copies in Private collections. Again a very scarce collectable book.  Miguel de Medina Theologian, born at Belalcazar, Spain, 1489; died at Toledo, May, 1578. He entered the Franciscan order in the convent of S. Maria de Angelis at Hornachuelos, in the Sierra Morena. After his profession he went to the college of SS. Peter and Paul at Alcalá. He received the doctor's degree from the city of Toledo; and in 1550 he was unanimously elected to the chair of Holy Scripture in the University of Alcalá. In 1560 Philip II sent him to the Council of Trent; on his return he became superior of St. John's of the Kings at Toledo. In 1553 the "Commentaries" of John Ferus were published in Rome after a strict examination. Dominicus a Soto published at Salamanca a work censuring Ferus's commentaries, selecting sixty-seven passages as deserving censure, and dedicated them to Valdés, Archbishop of Seville. Medina took up the defence of Ferus, which was published at Alcalá (1567, 1578), and Mainz (1572). This literary controversy — for no doubts were entertained of the orthodoxy of Medina --agitated the Spanish people. A process was instituted against Medina in the tribunal of the Inquisition at Toledo. He was cast in prison, where for more than five years he was subjected to great suffering and privations. His temporal afflictions and the rigour of his life brought on a severe illness and the inquisitor-general gave orders that Modina was to be conveyed to the Convent of St.John's of the Kings, where everything possible was to be done to preserve his life. Before the Blessed Sacrament, he made his profession of faith, calling God to witness that he never believed anything or taught anything opposed to the doctrines of the Church "the pillar and the ground of truth". His last words were: "In te Domine speravi non confundar in aeternum" Soon after his death, the supreme tribunal of the Inquisition issued a decree declaring that the accusations brought against Medina were without foundation. His principal works are: "Christianae paraenesis sive de recta in Deum fide libri septem" (Venice, 1564); "Disputationes de indulgentiis adversus nostri temporis haereticos ad PP. s. Concilii Trident." (Venice, 1564); "De sacrorum hominum continentia libri V" (Venice, 1569j, written against those who advocated the necessity of permitting the German priests to follow the example of the Greeks in this matter; "De igne purgatorio" (Venice, 1569), "De la verdadera y cristiana humilidad" (Toledo, 1559).

Exercitations concerning the Name, 
Original, Nature,
use and continuance of a day of Sacred Rest;
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by John Owen- Published by R.W. for Nath. Ponder;- London 1671. This Rare Book is complete, rebound in dark-brown leather, with original ads for other books to the back page. Rare for any serious collector. A most important book of the 17th. Century. John Owen (1616 – 24 August 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian. Of Welsh descent, he was born at Stadhampton in Oxfordshire, and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1632, M.A. 1635); at the time the college was noted, according to Thomas Fuller, for its metaphysicians. A Puritan by upbringing, in 1637 Owen was driven from Oxford by Laud's new statutes, and became chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir Robert Dormer and then in that of Lord Lovelace. At the outbreak of the English Civil War he sided with the parliament, and thus lost both his place and the prospects of succeeding to his Welsh Royalist uncle's fortune. For a while he lived in Charterhouse Yard, troubled by religious questions. His doubts were removed by a sermon preached by a stranger in Aldermanbury Chapel where he had gone intending to hear Edmund Calamy the Elder. His first publication, The Display of Arminianism (1642), was a spirited defence of Calvinism. It was dedicated to the committee of religion, and gained him the living of Fordham in Essex, from which a "scandalous minister" had been ejected. At Fordham he remained engrossed in the work of his parish and writing only The Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished until 1646, when, the old incumbent dying, the presentation lapsed to the patron, who gave it to someone else. In 1644, Owen married Mary Rooke (d. 1675). The couple had 11 children, ten of whom died in infancy. One daughter survived to adulthood, married unhappily, returned home, and shortly thereafter died of consumption. On 29 April he preached before the Long Parliament. In this sermon, and even more in his Country Essay for the Practice of Church Government, which he appended to it, his tendency to break away from Presbyterianism to the more tolerant Independent or Congregational system is plainly seen. Like John Milton, he saw little to choose between "new presbyter" and "old priest," and disliked a rigid and arbitrary polity by whatever name it was called. He became pastor at Coggeshall in Essex, where a large influx of Flemish tradesmen provided a congenial Independent atmosphere. His adoption of Congregational principles did not affect his theological position, and in 1647 he again argued heavily against Arminianism in The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, which drew him into long debate with Richard Baxter. He made the friendship of Fairfax while the latter was besieging Colchester, and urgently addressed the army there against religious persecution. He was chosen to preach to parliament on the day after the execution of King Charles I, and succeeded in fulfilling his task without directly mentioning that event. Another sermon preached on 29 April, a vigorous plea for sincerity of religion in high places, won not only the thanks of parliament but the friendship of Oliver Cromwell, who took Owen to Ireland as his chaplain, that he might regulate the affairs of Trinity College, Dublin. He pleaded with the House of Commons for the religious needs of Ireland as some years earlier he had pleaded for those of Wales. In 1650 he accompanied Cromwell on his Scottish campaign. In March 1651 Cromwell, as chancellor of Oxford, gave him the deanery of Christ Church Cathedral, and made him vice-chancellor in September 1652; in both offices he succeeded the Presbyterian, Edward Reynolds. During his eight years of official Oxford life Owen showed himself a firm disciplinarian, thorough in his methods, though, as John Locke testifies, the Aristotelian traditions in education underwent no change. With Philip Nye he unmasked the popular astrologer, William Lilly, and in spite of his share in condemning two Quakeresses to be whipped for disturbing the peace, his rule was not intolerant. Anglican services were conducted here and there, and at Christ Church itself the Anglican chaplain remained in the college. While little encouragement was given to a spirit of free inquiry, Puritanism at Oxford was not simply an attempt to force education and culture into "the leaden moulds of Calvinistic theology." Owen, unlike many of his contemporaries, was more interested in the New Testament than in the Old. During his Oxford years he wrote Justitia Divina (1653), an exposition of the dogma that God cannot forgive sin without an atonement; Communion with God (1657), which has been called a "piece of wise-drawn mysticism"; Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance (1654), his final attack on Arminianism; Vindiciae Evangelicae, a treatise written by order of the Council of State against Socinianism as expounded by John Biddle; On the Mortification of Sin in Believers (1656), an introspective and analytic work; Schism (1657), one of the most readable of all his writings; Of Temptation (1658), an attempt to recall Puritanism to its cardinal spiritual attitude from the jarring anarchy of sectarianism and the pharisaism which had followed on popularity and threatened to destroy the early simplicity.

A Plain Method of Catechizing
 by Thomas Doolittle 1698;-
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Published by John Alfwood. Rebound Brown Leather covers, some slight repairs to the paper, otherwise a very fine copy of a very rare book. A Rare find. Thomas Doolittle was born at Kidderminster, Worcestershire. While at the grammar school in Kidderminster, Doolittle heard Richard Baxter preach sermons that were later published as The Saints’ Everlasting Rest (1653). Those addresses led to Doolittle’s conversion in the early 1640s; thereafter, he called Baxter his “father in Christ.” Shortly after conversion, Doolittle left his occupation as assistant to a county lawyer, who had demanded that he work on the Sabbath. Baxter encouraged Doolittle to enter the ministry. To prepare himself, Doolittle studied at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1653 and a master’s degree in 1656. His tutor was William Moses, who was later ejected from Pembroke. Doolittle quickly earned a reputation as a great preacher. In 1653, he received Presbyterian ordination but committed himself to St. Alfege, London Wall, a Church of England congregation that he served until he was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662. His ministry there was eminently successful. In 1657, he wrote to Richard Baxter, whom he continued to consult for counsel and theological questions, “God hath given me abundant encouragement in my work, by giving me favour in the hearts and affections of the people…& others in the city’’

Partheneia sacra
By: H. H. (Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646. )
Published: John Cousturier 1633
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1st. Edition of this Scarce/Rare book;- no other copies to be found world-wide;- Its not perfect but its complete; som eof the pages are torn, and missing portions of the page, still for a scarce book very collectable and very early English 1633;- rebound in full leather, Scarce/Rare, in this condition.

This text is a devotional book, written in honour of the Virgin Mary by the English Jesuit, Henry Hawkins (1577-1646). He was a cultivated Kentish gentleman who entered the English College in Rome and worked secretly in England as a missionary priest. His book had to be smuggled into the country from Rouen and St Omer, and few copies have survived. "Partheneia Sacra" is an important example of the fusion of emblem and meditation It makes use of the long tradition of garden symbolism in Marian devotion. Hawkins turns these traditional symbols into full emblematic meditations. Each of the 22 emblematic units has a structure of nine parts and achieves changes of visual, emotional and intellectual emphasis. the duplication of the emblematic "pictura" into "Devise" (natural symbol) and "embleme" (the symbol applied to redemptive history); their difference is fundamental for the typographical method of Hawkins' "Symbolical Theologie". While Hawkins gives to "Embleme" and "Devise" a theological application, he also observes the traditional rules of the theory of emblems and "impresa". He must be counted among the earliest practitioners of multiple emblems. In spite of the originality of design and mediative structure, recent research has shown that much of the sensuous and imaginative prose has been translated from other devotional and encyclopedic authors, such as Jacobus de Voragine, Maximilianus Sandaeus and Etienne Binet. This work contains 49 emblem engravings by Jacob van Langeren and an engraved title-page by Pieter van Langeren. The original pictorial programme must have been carried out in accordance with the author's detailed instructions. An amalgam of native English, traditional Latin and contemporary French and Dutch cultural influences, it is a truly European book.

Milner, John ],
Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Castabala, 
Vicar-Apostolic of the western district of England, 1752-1826.
The End of Religious Controversy,
in a friendly correspondence between a religious society of Protestants and a Catholic Divine
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Published by Keating, Brown, and Co.[etc] 1819., London: Three parts in one Volume;- 24 cm. [50 letters written to Anglicans in 1801-02, first printed in 1818] [title continues] Addressed to the Right Rev. Dr. [Thomas] Burgess, [Anglican] Lord Bishop of St. David's, in answer to his Lordship's Protestant's catechism. In three parts. Part I. On the rule of faith; or the method of finding out the true religion. / By the Rev. J. M.--D.D.--F.S.A. Second edition, revised and corrected. [letters I-XII] xxx, 136 p. (errata on last page) -- [followed by] Part II. On the characteristics of the true church [letters XIII-XXX] [1: part-title], 172 p. (errata on last page): With a fold-out chart (The Apostolical Tree), [followed by] Part III. On rectifying mistakes concerning the Catholic Church [letters XXXI-L, with A postscript to the second edition [1819] of the Address to the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of St. Davids, occasioned by his Lordship's `One word to the Rev. Dr. Milner.'] [1: part-title], 217, [1: with errata] p. -- This work by `a zealous propagandist . [who] eagerly pressed the case for Papal Infallibility . forcefully presented the RC case in a series of letters, and has gone through many editions.' Original brown leather binding with gilt lettering and line along the spine. The book is complete including the fold-out chart;- in fine condition;-

The Rule of Life:
a collection of select moral sentences,
extracted from the greatest authors,
ancient and modern, and digested under proper heads
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Published in London;- by R. Crowder 1776;- 1st. Edition, Original brown leather binding with original brown cloth spine and corners;- A white cloth label with black lettering within to the spine. 258 pages. Fine collectable condition.

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