[Rarebooks] For Sale: Chauncy's "Seasonable Thoughts",1743

[Norman Kane]

We offer:

CHAUNCY, CHARLES.  SEASONABLE THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF RELIGION IN 
NEW-ENGLAND . . . A BAD AND DANGEROUS TENDENCY . . .
OBLIGATIONS . . . TO SUPPRESS PREVAILING DISORDERS . . . THE EVIL 
THINGS OF THE PRESENT DAY . . . WITH A PREFACE GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF 
THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES . . .  AND ERRORS 
PREVAILING NOW AS DID THEN . . .   Boston: Printed by Rogers & Fowle, 
for Samuel Eliot in Cornhill, 1743.  First edition.  Evans 5151.  Old 
leather-backed marbled boards, rather worn, labels gone,  hinges lightly
reglued, xxx, 18, 424 pages.  (In this important work Chauncy took 
his place as the leader of the liberals in the theological disputes 
of the time and in resolutely attacking the Great Awakening and its 
excesses.  He was first among the theologians of his day in New 
England, opposed an American bishopric, and stoutly defended the 
American cause in the Revolution. )  $400.00

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