[Rarebooks] FS -Hickes/ Shanks Two books on Christianity/ Theology-

[Michelle Levick]

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>> Author: By a Presbyter of the Church of England, With a Preface, by George Hickes, D.D.
>> Title: The Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted. Wherein Is Proved, That Episcopacy Is of Divine, and Apostolical Institution
>> Publisher: Printed by W.B. for Richard Sare, London
>> Date: 1708, First Edition
>> Condition:  Very Good
>> Description:
>> "Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted. Wherein Is Proved, That Episcopacy Is of Divine, and Apostolical Institution: And that it was the Government to the Christian Church during the Three First Stages if it; and was design to be Perpetual in it to the End of the World. With An Account of the Distinction of the Three Orders of Bishop, Presbyter, and Deacon. To Reconcile the Differenting Parties to that Form of Church Government." Twenty chapters consisting of: "Divine" and "Particular" proofs of the Episcopacy being an early part (First through Third Centuries) of the ecclesiastical "Hierarchy". Early Jewish-Christian leaders and martyrs such as St. James, St. Simeon, St. Titus, St. Jerome, and others are referenced, along with testimonies of the Apoplectic Fathers, New Testament Biblical works, etc. continuing through the third century. Included is "A Sermon of the authoritie of the Kayes,"( in a different font ) by Thomas Cranmer, 1489 -1556, The Archbishop of Canterbury (during the rule of Henry VIII).
>> It is possible that George Hickes himself was the actual author, being a prolific writer whose earlier works were published anonymously. The "Bangorian Controversy" the most bitterly fought theological dispute in the early 18th century originated in 1716 with Hickes's posthumous publication of "Constitution of the Christian Church, and the Nature and Consequence of Schism".
>> George Hickes, born at Newsham, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, 1642-1750, writer, scholar, he became Chaplain to King James II, in 1681, he refused to take the oath of allegiance during the Revolution of 1688, (Glorious Revolution). Hickes published two popular treatise on Christianity: Of the Christian Priesthood and the other Of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order, originally published in 1707, however his most noted works were: Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae (1689), and Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus (1703-1705).
>> Full calf with hand tooled delicate design to boards. Boards and extremities rubbed. Text is remarkably heavy and easy to read, moderate toning throughout, paper in very good condition. Complete professional remake of spine, with leather title panel, gilt title, five raised bands. New f.e.p. Small, neat, previous owners name to e.p. and margin of title page. Verso of title page, facing Preface, in old fountain pen "the whole work believed to be by XXX? Hickes". Iviii, 228, sm 8 vo. First edition. In protective archival clear wraps.    $175.00 PP  OBO
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>> Author: Alexander Shanks
>> Title: Sermons, Chiefly on Sacramental Occasions; Late Pastor of The Associate Congregation, Jedburgh
>> Publisher: John Grayson, Washington, Pa.
>> Date: 1820, First American Edition
>> Condition:  Good
>> Description:
>> Shanks, Alexander, 1731-1799, a minister of the Secession Church in Scotland, pastor at Jedburgh from 1760 until his death.
>> Containing: A Life of the Author and 22 Sermons: I. The Agony of the Son of God, (Luke xxiii. 44- And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his swear was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground) II. The Exercise of the Son of God in His Agony, (Heb. v. 7.- Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared). III. The Son of God mocked and wounded, IV. The Son of God Nailed to the Cross, etc. with Biblical quotation under reach sermon title.
>> Full calf, gilt decorations to, rubbing to extremities, boards and spine, joints cracked. Spine chipped most gilt worn and chipped off, treated for red rot. Small ex-library number label. Faded blue marbled e.p. Mild foxing and toning of text, most very clean. I put too examples of the text, it is very readable and the majority of the text is like the cleaner example. Rear paste down ex-library plate fro Washington County Historical Society. Boards still attached, text block firm. First American Edition 428, 12 mo. In archival clear film wraps.   $40.00 PP

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