An Account of the Daemoniacks, and of the Power of Casting Out Daemons, Both in the New Testament and in the Four First Centuries. Occasioned by a late Pamphlet Intituled, An Enquiry into the meaning of Daemoniacks in the New Testament.

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Hardcover, 12mo., pp[1-88]. Signatures: A-I4 K-L4 [D2 numbered as D3]. Quarter-bound in calf, with rubbing and small chips missing from spine. Condition: Very Good. Small closed tear to page E2, light wear to fore-edge of title page. *** William Whiston (1667 - 1752) was an English mathematician, who succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1702. Whiston was also an ordained minister, and was rector of Lowestoft from 1698-1699. He was a Boyle lecturer in 1707, in which position he defended the position of biblical literalism. In 1710 he was expelled from the university because of his religious views, in particular his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, saying it had pagan origins. Scarce.

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An Account of the Daemoniacks, and of the Power of Casting Out Daemons, Both in the New Testament and in the Four First Centuries. Occasioned by a late Pamphlet Intituled, An Enquiry into the meaning of Daemoniacks in the New Testament.

Editor

John Whiston, London

Fecha de publicación

1737

Encuadernación

Hard Cover

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Very Good

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