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GLANVILL, Joseph.

Seasonable Reflections and Discourses

Seasonable Reflections and Discourses

in order to the conviction, & cure of the scoffing, & infidelity of a degenerate age.

Stock Code 119897

London, Printed by R.W. for H. Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1676.

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The first edition of this attack on nonconformist Christianity by the Latitudinarian philosopher Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680), best known for his association with the Cambridge Platonist Henry More, and for his posthumously published defence of the belief in witchcraft, Saducismus Triumphatus.

The present work is divided into four sermons, on 'The Sin and Danger of Scoffing at Religion', 'The Church's Contempt from Prophane and Fanatick Enemies', 'Moral Evidence of a Life to come', and 'The Serious Consideration of the Future Judgement'.

First edition; 8vo (16.5 x 10 cm); woodcut initials and headpieces, ownership inscriptions to rear endpapers, MS delineation of line numbers to first sermon, small closed-tear to title, repaired to verso with archival tape (offsetting from old adhesive), trimmed quite close to text block; eighteenth-century calf, later gilt panel tooling to covers (at time of restoration), rebacked, original gilt spine laid down, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, very good.

ESTC R23378.

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Provenance: 'Eliz White, Her Book, Nov., 1810' (ownership inscription).

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