[Rarebooks] fa: CONFORMITY of the DISCIPLINE and GOVERNMENT of those Called INDEPENDANTS 1680

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[Lewis Du Moulin: The Conformity of the Discipline and Government of Those who are commonly called Independants to that of the ancient primitive Christians. London: Printed for Richard Janeway, 1680.] Small 4to (18.5 cm), disbound; 67, [1] pp. Lacking the title-page and two contents leaves, begins with p. 1 of the text; last leaf detached but present; a few small spots, else contents quite clean and fresh. ESTC R25012; Wing D2533.

One of the last published works of Lewis Du Moulin (1606-1680), a Huguenot physician and polemicist, and an Erastian ever on the lookout for pernicious traces of "popery" in the Church of England. Formerly Camden Professor of History at Oxford, he was ejected from that position in 1660. He was described by one critic, the Royalist anti-Puritan Anthony Wood, as "a fiery, violent and hot-headed independent, a cross and ill-natured man."