Author: MILLS (William):
Title: The Belief of the Jewish People and of the most eminent Gentile Philosophers, more especially of Plato and Aristotle, in A Future State, briefly considered; Including an Examination into some of the Leading Principles contained in Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses; in A Discourse preached before the University of Oxford at St. Mary's, March 30, 1828. With Notes and an Appendix.
Description: Oxford: At the University Press for the Author, and Sold by J. Parker; and by C. and J. Rivingnton, London. 1828. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 228 x 138 mms., pp. viii, 130, contemporary quarter binder's cloth, plain boards, paper label on front cover; spine snagged and a bit worn, but a good copy. William Mills (1793 - 1834) was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, when he published this work. In the following year he was appointed the first Whyte Professor of Moral Philosophy. In the preface, after affirming the enduring interest for both Jew and Gentile in a "future state," Mills asserts, "Nor will the investigation be without profit to him who pursues it candidly, as a source of moral improvement. He may learn to be thankful on the ground of revelation for the advantage which he enjoys over the most favour Israelite in the superior blessings and prospects of the new, compared with the old dispensation; and on the ground of his natural faculties he will be sensible of the benefits which reason itself has derived from the word of Scripture, as well in directing as in limiting its exercise."

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