A Confutation of Quakerism; Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach.

BENNET, Thomas ( 1673 1728 ) .:

Edité par London : Printed by M J and sold by A Bettesworth and C Hitch at the Red Lion in Pater-noster-Row MDCCXXXIII, 1733

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A reply to Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity. Third edition. 8vo. pp.10/pp.318/[4pp. - A Table.]/[4pp. - Adverts] . A very good full leather binding. Edges and hinges carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 raised bands and two recent crimson leather title labels. Endpapers lightly toned and stained. Previou owner's detail to front free-endpaper: "Felix I . Vries, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Lent Term 1932" ?? Printed title with double-ruled border. Clean English text throughout. A well preserved book. * Full title reads: "A Confutation of Quakerism; Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach. concerning the necessity of immediate revelation in order to a saving Christian faith; the Being, Nature and Operation of the Pretended Universal Light within; its Striving with Men, moving them to Prayer, and calling them to the Ministry; Regeneration, Sanctification, Justification, Salvation and Union with God; the Nature of a Church; the Rule of Faith; Water-Baptism; and the Lord s-Supper. Diverse Questions also concerning Perfection, Christ s Satisfaction, the Judge of Controversies, &c. are briefly stated and resolved." ** "Thomas Bennet (1673 1728) was an English clergyman, known for controversial and polemical writings, and as a Hebraist. He was born at Salisbury, England, on 7 May 1673. and was educated at the free school there. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1688, before he was fifteen, took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. (1694), and was chosen Fellow of his college. In 1700, by chance, he went to Colchester on the death of a clergyman friend there, John Rayne, and was called on to preach the funeral sermon; and was appointed to succeed him. He was instituted 15 January 1701. He left Colchester at the end of the decade, and became deputy chaplain to Chelsea Hospital. He preached a funeral sermon at St Olave's Church, Southwark, and was chosen lecturer there. He was appointed morning preacher at St Lawrence Jewry under John Mapletoft, and was also presented by the dean and chapter of St Paul's Cathedral to St Giles Cripplegate. The presentation, however, involved him in disputes over a tithe on peas and beans. In 1711, he was created D.D. In 1717 he married Elizabeth Hunt of Salisbury, and by her had three daughters. He died on 9 October 1728. Thomas Emlyn praised him for his "small respect to decrees of councils or mere church authority". In 1695, Hebrew verses by Bennet on the death of Queen Mary were printed in the university collection. His first major publication was An Answer to the Dissenters Plea for Separation, or an Abridgment of the London Cases (1699, 5th edition 1711). In 1701 appeared A Confutation of Popery in three parts. In 1702 he followed up his Answer by A Discourse of Schism. Timothy Shepherd of Braintree answered this work, and Bennet replied in 1703. Bennet found another antagonist in a fellow clergyman in A Justification of the Dissenters against Mr. Bennet's charge of damnable Schism, &c. … By a Divine of the Church of England by Law established, 1705. Bennet's next book was Devotions, viz. Confessions, Petitions, Intercessions, and Thanksgivings, for every day in the week, and also before, at, and after the Sacrament, with Occasional Prayers for all Persons whatsoever. In 1705 Bennet also published A Confutation of Quakerism. B. Lindley answered this in 1710. In 1708, perhaps stung by passing gibes at his own printed prayers, Bennet published A brief History of joint Use of precomposed set Forms of Prayer, and A Discourse of Joint Prayer, and later in the same year A Paraphrase with Annotations upon the Book of Common Prayer, wherein the text is explained, objections are answered, and advice is humbly offered, both to the clergy and the laity, for promoting true devotion to the use of it. In 1710 these works were tacitly vindicated by Bennet in A Letter to Mr. B. Robinson, occasioned b.

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• Titre: A Confutation of Quakerism; Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach.
• Éditeur: London : Printed by M J and sold by A Bettesworth and C Hitch at the Red Lion in Pater-noster-Row MDCCXXXIII
• Date de parution: 1733
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  • QUAKERS::18TH CENTURY