Evolution Religious Tolerance by Checkley John (5 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. One of 250 copies. Spines creased, some loss from corners, wrappers toned. 1897 Soft Cover. 287; 320 pp. Two volume set. CHECKLEY, John, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1680; died in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1753. He published in London, in 1723, a reprint of Leslie's "Short and Easy Method with the Deists," to which he added a " Discourse Concerning Episcopacy, in Defence of Christianity and the Church of England," consisting of a rude attack on the clergy and people of New England. For this he was tried before the Supreme Court in Boston in 1724, and fined £50 for libel. He went to England to take orders in 1727, intending to settle at Marblehead, but the bishop of London refused to ordain a man who had rendered himself so obnoxious to the New Englanders, and was a foe to Christians of other persuasions in the community. Afterward he was ordained by the bishop of Exeter, and sent to Narragansett. He settled in Providence in 1739. He was a man of eccentric and irascible conduct, but witty, learned in the classics, and familiar with the Narragansett language. He published, in 1715, "Choice Dialogues about Predestination," which were answered by Thomas Watter, who defended the Calvinistic doctrine, and were republished with an "Answer by a Stripling" in 1720. In 1727 appeared " The Modest Proof of the Order of the Churches," the authorship of which was accredited to him, introducing the Episcopal controversy into New England, and eliciting replies from Martin Mar-Prelate and Wigglesworth. He published also his speech upon his trial, and reissued it in London in 1738.--Famous Americans.

First edition, 1/250 copies. Small 4to. 2 volumes: viii, (2), 288; vii, (2), 320 pp. Extra Prince Society title page for each volume. Checkley (1680-1754), a Boston native educated at the Latin School, opened a shop selling "books, medicines, and small merchandise" (DAB) in the 1710s and gain notoriety in the 1720s with the publication of a number of controversial pamphlets; he eventually took orders and served King's Church in Providence, Rhode Island, as Rector for a decade. Cf. Sabin 12361-12365 for the original editions of Checkley's writings. Ex-historical society library, with bookplate on pastedowns, an small paper labels on spines, else a very good copy. Contemporary brown three-quarter roan (rubbed, especially at joints, edges bumped), gilt, and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title and rules between raised bands on spine, t.e.g., original printed wrappers bound in. (#5831).

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(CHECKLEY, JOHN). John Checkley; or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay.1719-1774. With Historical Illustrations and a Memoir by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter. Boston: Prince Society, 1897. 4tos. Two vols. ix, 288; ix, 320pp. Bkpl. Very good set in 3/4 morocco. Limited to 250 sets.

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