Author: Wells, Edward [1667-1727]
Title: A Letter from a Minister of the Church of England to Mr Peter Dowley, A Dissenting Teacher of the Presbyterian ..,.
Description: Oxford, John Stephens, 1706. 3rd Edition, Later boards. 17x10cm, 46,(1) pp. Recent binder's blind boards.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Full title reads: "A Letter from a Minister of the Church of England to Mr Peter Dowley, : A Dissenting Teacher of the Presbyterian or Else Independent Perswasion". "Printed for John Stephens, and are to be sold by James Knapton at the Crown in St Paul’s Church-Yard". Reference: English Short Title Catalog, T100230. ["Edward Wells was an English mathematician, geographer, and controversial theologian. He was the son of Edward Wells, vicar of Corsham, Wiltshire. He was admitted to Westminster School in 1680,and elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1686. He graduated B.A. in 1690 and M.A. in 1693. He was inducted to the rectory of Cotesbach, Leicestershire, on 2 January 1702, and he was awarded the degrees of B.D. and D.D. on 5 April 1704. On 28 March 1716 he was instituted to the rectory of Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, on the presentation of his former pupil, Browne Willis. From the pulpit he attacked his benefactor; Browne Willis then published Reflecting Sermons considered; occasioned by several Discourses delivered in the Parish Church of Bletchley. From 1709 to 1719, Wells produced a Greek critical edition of the New Testament, published in Oxford. Wells drew from the variant readings collated in the edition of John Mill in the construction of the text. While Mill's edition had included the most thorough critical apparatus up to its time, the actual text was a reprint of that of Stephanus..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Church, Church of England, Anglican Theology, History of Religion, Great Britain, Controversial, Literature, Religious Dissent, Dissenters