The Validity of Presbyterian Ordination Asserted and Maintained. A discourse delivered at the anniversary Dudleian-Lecture, at Harvard-College in Cambridge New-England, May 12. 1762. With an appendix, giving a brief historical account of the epistles ascribed to Ignatius; and exhibiting some of the many reasons, why they ought not to be depended on as his uncorrupted works

Charles Chauncy

Published by Richard Draper / Thomas Leverett, Boston, 1762

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Boston: Printed and Sold by Richard Draper, in Newbury-Street, and Thomas Leverett in Cornhill, 1762. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers, yapp edges, manuscript spine titling; 118pp. (A^8 B-O^4, collated and complete with half title). Ownership rubberstamp inside upper cover, brief spotting to half title page, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy. The earliest in a series of tracts by the Congregationalist clergyman Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) arguing against the encroaching episcopacy in the colonies, fearing that a bishop sent by the Church of England would wield both political as well as religious power and stifling the colonists' freedom to appoint their own churchmen. EVANS 9089; ESTC W29647; SABIN 12331.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Validity of Presbyterian Ordination Asserted and Maintained. A discourse delivered at the anniversary Dudleian-Lecture, at Harvard-College in Cambridge New-England, May 12. 1762. With an appendix, giving a brief historical account of the epistles ascribed to Ignatius; and exhibiting some of the many reasons, why they ought not to be depended on as his uncorrupted works
• Publisher: Richard Draper / Thomas Leverett, Boston
• Publication Date: 1762
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Religion / Theology
  • 18th Century
  • Colonial Americana