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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Life and Posthumous Works of Richard Claridge being Memoirs and Manuscripts Relating to His Experiences and Progress in Religion: His Changes in Opinion and Reasons for them. With Essays in Defence of several Principles and Practices of the People call'd Quakers. Collected by JOSEPH BESSE. London, Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J.Sowle, 1726. 1726, J. Sowle, London. Condtion Fair. Marbled boards (both separated from spine with half-calf spine with gilt title; spotting and soiling is minimal given book s age. Loose leaf in front with neat ink inscription: William Belson, His Book.…

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The Life and Posthumous Works of Richard Claridge being Memoirs and Manuscripts Relating to His Experiences and Progress in Religion: His Changes in Opinion and Reasons for them. With Essays in Defence of several Principles and Practices of the People call'd Quakers. Collected by JOSEPH BESSE. London, Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J.Sowle, 1726. 12 Bl., 576 S., 6 Bl., Leder-Band der Zeit über 5 Bünden und rotem RSchild, Kapitale, Kanten u.Ecken berieben, innen nur gering gebräunt; im Ganzen gutes Expl. - RICHARD CLARIDGE (1649-1723) war ein englisch anglikanischer Priester und Quäker. 1692 wurde er Baptist. - Nach seiner Lebensbeschreibung (334 S.) mit folgenden Aufsätzen: An Essay on Baptism and the Supper. An Essay on the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfactions for the Sins of Mankind. An Essay on Tithes. An Essay on Liberty of Conscience: Shewing that Persecution for Religion, Is contrary to Christianity. An Essay on Evangelical Purity: Shewing the Indispensable Necessity of Holiness To the Being of a Gospel-Minister. A letter to a Friend, concerning the Dessent of Christ into Hell. An Epistle of Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, to Celantia, a Noble Chistian Matron; instructing her how to live an Holy Live. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book presents three of the works of Abdu.l-Bah., son of the founder of the Bah.i Faith, dealing with social and political issues. In 'The Secret of Divine Civilization' (1875) Abdu.l-Bah. supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirz. Hosayn Kh.n, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abdu.l-Bah. gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. 'A Traveller's Narrative' (1889/90) is an authoritative statement of the broad lines of Bah.'i social and political thinking. 'The Art of Governance' (1892/93) was written as Iran entered a pre-revolutionary phase, and ideas that we recognise today as the precursors of political Islam were spreading. It sets out the principles underlying the ideal relationship between religion and politics and between the government and the people. In addition to presenting the first parallel text translations of these works, the Persian texts incorporate notes on variants in the early published sources. An introduction outlines the intellectual and political landscape from which Abdu.l-Bah. wrote, and in which his expected readers lived.…