JACKSON, John.
A Defense of Human Liberty,
A Defense of Human Liberty,
in answer to the principal arguments which have been alleged against it; and particularly to Cato's letters on that subject, In which defence the opinion o the antients, concerning fate, is also distinctly and largely considered. By John Jackson, Rector of Rossington in the County of York, and Prebendary of Wherwell in the County of Southampton.
Stock Code 123143
London, Printed for J. Noon at the White Hart in Cheapside near the Poultry, 1725.
The author, John Jackson (1686-1763), was a low-church religious controversialist who wrote against orthodox notions of the Trinity.
First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm); woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, vignette to head of B1, bookplate to front pastedown, light spotting to title and endpapers; contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, MS title in pen to upper covers, uncut edges, rubbed with slight loss to spine ends and corners, endpapers split at gutter margins, overall a very good example; [8], 207, [1]pp.
ESTC T887.
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