Author: Fontenelle, M. de.
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE ORACLES. In two dissertations; wherein are proved, I. That the oracles were not given out by dæmons; ... II. That the oracles did not cease at the coming of Jesus Christ; ... Translated from the best edition of the original French.
Description: London : printed for D. Browne; and J. Whiston,, 1750. 12mo. xvi + [4] + 218 + [2]pp. Dec. initial letter and headpiece and dec devices. Ex.-libris James Dolphin Watson, library ink stamp to pastedown, light browning, early speckled calf with double gilt rule to edges of boards, some loss toward joints, rebacked with much of original worn spine laid down, gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ ESTC T68546 ‘A translation, by Stephen Whatley, of ’Histoire des oracles’. With a final leaf of advertisements.’ First published in 1687, Fontenelle’s ‘Histoire des oracles’ made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles. It consisted of two essays, the first of which was designed to prove that oracles were not given by the supernatural agency of demons, and the second that they did not cease with the birth of Jesus.

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