MACLAINE (Archibald): - A Series of Letters, addressed to Soame Jenyns, Esq. On Occasion of his View of the Internal Evidence of Christianity.

London: Printed for Charles Bathurst…, 1777. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [vi], 274, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motif, red leather label; spine a little rubbed, but a very good copy. Maclaine (1722 - 1804) was born in Ireland and studied with Francis Hutcheson and William Leechman at the University of Glasgow. He became a Presbyterian minister in 1747, and in 1752 became the sole minister of the Scots Presbyterian church in The Hague. He was, as one might expect a student of Hutcheson to be, familiar with contemporary philosophy as well as other intellectual activities. He published this work just a few months after Gibbon published the first volume of his Decline and Fall, and he mentions Gibbon briefly in this work. ESTC N22995 locates copies in Cambridge, St Patrick's College Library, Maynooth; McMaster University Mills Memorial Library, Union Theological Seminary, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

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