[JOHN COLLINGES COPY] Lyra Prophetica Davidis Regis Sive Analysis Critico-Practica Psalmorum. In Qua Omnes & Singulæ Voces Hebrææ In Psalterio Contentæ Tan Propriæ Quàm Appellativæ (Nullâ Exceptâ) Ad Regulas Artis Revocantur; Earúmque Significationes Genuinæ Explicantur: Elegantiæ Linguæ Propri Evolvuntur. Insuper Harmonia Hebræi Textus Cum Paraphrasi Chaldæa, & Versione Græca LXXII. Interpretum, In Locis, Setentiis Discrepantibus, Fideliter Confertur. Cui Ad Calcem Addita Est Brevis Institutio Linguæ Hebrææ & Chaldææ. Studio & Vigiliis Victorini Bythneri Poloni, Linguæ Hebrææ Professoris. Opus Vovum: Nec Antè In Tali Forma Tentatum: In Quo Quid Præstatum, Præfatio Ad Lectorem Indicabit.

Quarto [9.00 tall x 6.75 wide]. ESTC ref 006098987. Wing B6414/6419. Collates complete [8], 342 [ie 352], [2], 69,[1]; [8], 46, [2]p. Title page in red & black. A very good, solid and sound copy with a very interesting provenance. Believed to have formerly belonged to the library of John Collings. Inscribed in a contemporary to the front flyleaf John Collings, His Booke 1697. Which was Rev. Dr. Collings His Booke . John Collinges (1623 1690) was an English Presbyterian theologian, and prolific writer. He lived and worked in Norwich for more than forty years where he played a major role in reviving and administering the City Library. He was one of the representatives of the Presbyterians in the Savoy Conference, but was later forced to resign his livings. He was the son of Edward Collinges, M. A., born at Boxted, Essex, and educated to 16 at the grammar school of Dedham, where he came under the influence of Matthew Newcomen. His father died when he was fifteen, but he was sent as a sizar to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He matriculated in 1639; graduated B.A. 1643, M.A. 1646, B.D. 1653 and D.D. 1658. By age about 22 he had become a preacher, living in the family of Isaac Wyncoll of Bures, Essex, whose eldest daughter he married. A letter dated 24 October 1683 to Sir Henry Hobart, refers to him having an adult son, but his name and dates are not known. In September 1646, he was invited by Sir John Hobart to join his household, in Norwich. After Sir John Hobart's death in 1647, part of the house was converted into a chapel by his widow, and here for sixteen years, till the passing of the act restraining religious meetings, Collinges lectured on weekdays, and repeated his public discourses on Sunday nights. In 1653 he took the place of Harding, the ejected vicar of St. Stephen's parish, which he held without institution till the Restoration compelled him to resign it. Collinges was appointed one of the commissioners at the Savoy Conference, and was anxious for an accommodation. After his ejection, he continued to live in St Peter s parish and minister to the Presbyterians, funded by members of his church. In 1690 he was receiving £56 per year.[4] On 30 April 1672 he received a licence to be a Presbyterian teacher in Norwich. During the early 1680s, suspicion fell on the nonconformist sects in Norwich, and a report on the city in the State Papers refers to him as one of two leaders of the disaffected element in the city: "a D.D. and a man of some learning, which he employs in promoting Presbytery and, were he removed, 'tis probable many of that sect would fall off. They, the Anabaptists and the Quakers not only unite against the government, but are such good friends as to hold their meetings under one roof." In the aftermath of the Rye House Plot of 1683 Collinges was arrested on two occasions in 1685 as a nonjuring suspect, but no action was eventually taken. He died at Walcott, Norfolk in January 1690/1. His funeral sermon was preached by Martin Fynch, and published in Norwich in 1695. A memorial to him in Latin is given in the Old Meeting House, Norwich.Works Throughout his adult life John Collinges was a voluminous and at times verbose writer of theological works of different types, published in London and Norwich. Many of these were published under his own name, some under his initials and some anonymously. His earliest published works were extended versions of his lectures and sermons, such as The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her welbeloved, (1646 and 1647) and A memorial for posteritie, preached at the funeral of these patron Sir John Hobart.(1647). During his career he would publish approaching one hundred of his sermons and lectures both as individual works and also in collections such as A cordiall for a fainting soule, (published in three parts 1649 - 1652) consisting of sermons delivered in so many lectures in a private chappell belonging to Chappell-Field-House in Norwich , or Thirteen sermons upon s.…