An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

Beschreibung

"With several other treatises. Viz. The Schism, The Act of Oblivion, .etc". 212 pp all original hb in original half brown leather 16 x 20 cms. Ref: Wing 7571. With a Preface "To the Reader" bound in, and dated "Cambridge August 10th 1652". Four raised bands. Some pages with faint marginal brackets in pencil, noting paragraphs of particular interest (see image). [ Nathanael Culverwell, 1619 - 1651, was an English author and theologian, born in Middlesex. A student (admitted 1633) and later a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was associated with members of the Cambridge Platonists. This volume, "An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature", his best-known work, was originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1645 - 1646, and attempted mediation between Reason and Faith, via Natural Law, in the context of the opposing religious stances of the English Civil War]. See also our ABE Listings: # 005815 "Emblemes" Francis Quarles. 1638., and # 005793 John Locke "The Reasonableness of Christianity". 1695. All from the same provenence.

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Titel

An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

Verlag

The Roycroft for Mary Rothwell, At The Bear & Fountain Cheap-side

Erscheinungsjahr

1661

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

First Thus

Zustand

Very Good

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