Author: STEBBING (Henry):
Title: A Dissertation on the Power of States to Deny Civil Protection to the Marriages of Minors Made without the Consent of their Parents or Guardians. In which The Opinion of Baron Puffendorf upon that Subject, is examined.
Description: London, Prined for C. Davis..., 1755. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 192 x 113 mms., pp. [iv], iii[ miv Errata], 55 [56 blank], including half-title, printed label on spine. A good copy. Henry Stebbing (bap. 1687, d. 1763) was a famous controversialist, mainly, of course, on religious matters. ONDB records that he "was a fearless controversialist who wrote against latitudinarian divines, dissenters, and Methodists, as well as deists and freethinkers. A strict high-churchman, he vigorously opposed a number of prominent clergymen who dissented from his particularly tenacious variety of Anglican orthodoxy." He had bad-tempered encounters with Quakers, William Warburton, those whom he considered sceptics, heretics, atheists, etc., and his writing were prolific. This was his contribution to the Marriage Act debate: "He played his part in the debate over Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act (1753) in A dissertation on the power of states to deny civil protection to the marriages of minors made without the consent of their parents or guardians (1755). This proved a contentious deployment of the natural law arguments of Grotius and Pufendorf, and several replies appeared in quick succession; Nathaniel Forster's manuscript reply is in the British Library."

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