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(WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD). SOBER REMARKS ON A BOOK LATELY RE-PRINTED AT BOSTON, ENTITULED, A MODEST PROOF OF THE ORDER & GOVERNMENT SETTLED BY CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES IN THE CHURCH. IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND.
Boston: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, 1724. First edition. (4) 78 pp. Self-wraps. 12mo. Sewn. Title-page quite chipped and rebacked, with loss of a few words and part of the date at the bottom; portion of table of contents page lacking with loss of text at bottom; edges worn. Lacking errata page at end. Small lib. label (stamped withdrawn) on bottom margin of last page. Written by Edward Wigglesworth, first Hollis Professor at Harvard. It is his response to a tract by Anglican minister John Checkley who had been tried and fined by the General Court of Massachusetts for upholding the doctrines of the Church of England against the teachings of the puritan divines. SABIN 103904. EVANS 2594. $750.00
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: Almagre Books - Book number: 20101