A True and Partial Account of What Occurr’d at the Late Conference in Exon. Publish’d to prevent Misrepresentations by John Withers

A True and Partial Account of What Occurr’d at the Late Conference in Exon. Publish’d to prevent Misrepresentations

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8vo. pp. 22. Signatures: A-C⁴; C4 blank. Bound in paneled calf, spine exposed. Bound first with five other tracts by John Withers (Fr# 394.5-10 in this collection), all printed in Exeter by Samuel Farley (only the first and second tract) and Joseph Bliss:<ul><li>A Defence of the True and Impartial Account Of what Occurr'd at the Late Conference in Exon and the Dissenters Vindicated from Mr. Agate's False Accusations, In his Reply to the said Account. By John Withers. 1707 (Bib# 9377213).</li><li>Truth Try'd: or, Mr. Agate's pretended plain-truth Proved an untruth in which His false stories and unfair quotations are Detected; His Charge of Jesuitism and Donatism against the Dissenters is Retorted, And their agreements with all foreign Protestants in Point of Ordination is further Manifested. By John Withers. 1708 (Bib# 9377214)</li><li>Truth Try'd: or, Mr. Agate's pretended plain-truth Proved An Untruth: In Which His False Stories and Unfair Quotations are further Detected; The Dissenters Vindicated from the Charge of Rebellion and Irreligion; And the First Authors of the late War against King Charles Proved, from the Lord Clarendon’s History, to be Church-Men. Part II. By John Withers. 1709 (Bib# 9377258)</li><li>Truth Try'd: or, Mr. Agate's pretended plain-truth Proved an Untruth in which moderate dissenters are Vindicated from the Imputation of Schism, as charg'd upon them in his late Pamphlets: and the validity of Presbyterian Ordination is prov'd, both from Scripture and Antiquity. By John Withers. 1710 (Bib# 9377259)</li><li>The history of resistance, As practis'd by the Church of England in which 'Tis proved, from most Authentick Records, That in every Reign since the Reformation of Religion, the said Church hath Aided and Assisted, Justified and Approved of, such Subjects as have Defended themselves against the Oppressions of their Tyrannical, tho' Natural Princes. Written Upon Occasion of Mr. Agate's sermon on the 30th of January; and in defence of the Late Revolution, the Present Establishment, and the Protestant Succession. The Second Edition. By John Withers. 1710 (Bib# 9377260)</li></ul> In manuscript on front flyleaf “Order of the following tracts by Mr. Withers…” Part of a debate between Withers and the orthodox curate of Salisbury, John Agate, in which Withers successfully discredited many of the historical forgeries of Robert Ware. See A. Freeman, Historical Forgery in Romanophobe Britain: Robert Ware’s Irish Fictions Revisited. London, 2021, pp. 87-88. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_9140433" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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