A BRIEF VINDICATION OF THE NON-CONFORMISTS from the Charge of SCHISME. As it was Managed against them in a Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor; by Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls

OWEN, John, D.D.

Edité par Nathaniel Ponder, London, 1680

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Stillingfleet's sermon was preached 2nd May 1680, how this edition differs from 1st is unclear but it does have 2 lines of 'Erata' (sic) at end of text above a 3 line publisher's notice of another book by Owen. no endpapers or half-title, t.p.+56 pp.; clean recent protective card wrapper with new title etc. label centre front. Title page remains a little dusty in places, as does final page; t.p. printed at a slight angle with consequent loss of most of bottom margin, occasional similar, but less extreme, angularity of text printing throughout, 3 paper fault folds to top outer corners (pp. 11/12, 21-24), beginnings of top two lines on p.16 almost unprinted with virtual loss of two words of text (these now faintly pencilled in above), a small hole to final leaf slightly affecting a word on p.55 (now closed with transparent tear repair tape), an extremely faint, barely discernible water-stain to top margin pp.49 et seq. genuinely of little consequence, 2 trivial small brown spots to final pape. Despite these numerous minor faults, most due to poor, perhaps rushed, printing, plus lack of endpapers, this remains a generally clean, quite unmarked and undamaged (though small chip to top inner corner of final leaf due to adhesion to back wrapper) copy of this extremely rare pamphlet. The general thrust of the argument is that Stillingfleet's attack on some Non-conformist practises effectively aids Catholic attacks on Protestantism by promoting division, and that Non-conformist differences are matters of prefered modes of worship and not of doctrine or belief. The religious controversies of the period, and the eminent Edward Stillingfleet's apparently flexible positions are too complex for summary here. Owen's opposition to Stilligfleet (1635-1699) is mentioned in passing in the latter's Wikipedia entry, though only a secondary source is referenced. Owen himself (1616-1683) was a very prominent Non-conformist identifying primarily as a Congregationalist. He authored a large number of theological and exegetical works, was an M.P. during the inter-regum and among other things got John Bunyan released from prison - you learn something every day! He too has an extensive Wikipedia entry. No web-matches at time of listing, .

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• Titre: A BRIEF VINDICATION OF THE NON-CONFORMISTS from the Charge of SCHISME. As it was Managed against them in a Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor; by Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls
• Éditeur: Nathaniel Ponder, London
• Date de parution: 1680
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 2nd ed. year of publication
• État de l'article: VG- (text) for age & genre
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Religion:see also Prehistory to Roman
  • Pre-1850
  • History