An historical preface to Primitive Christianity reviv'd. With an Appendix Containing An Account of the Author's Prosecution at, and Banishment from the University of Cambridge. By William Whiston, M.A.

An historical preface to Primitive Christianity reviv'd. With an Appendix Containing An Account of the Author's Prosecution at, and Banishment from the University of Cambridge. By William Whiston, M.A.

William Whiston

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8vo. ff. [3] (first blank), pp. 116, 35, [5], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: A-G8 H2 A-B8 C4. Calf. Remnants of lettering panels on spine. The five final pages contain "Proposals for printing by subscription, Mr. Whiston’s Collection" before the errata list. This work is the first part of a 1711-1712 dispute the English theologian William Whiston (1667-1752) had with Johann Ernest Grabe (see Bib# 4102654-4102657/Fr# 86-89 in this collection) about the ‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels, and ‘Apostolic Constitutions’, attributed to Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement I), which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562, see Bib# 4102652/Fr# 84) and De constitutionibus apostolicis (first complete Latin edition, 1563 (Bib# 4102653/Fr# 85). See also Whiston’s St. Clement’s and St. Irenaeus’s vindication of the apostolical constitutions, from several objections made against them [...] second edition [with large additions]. London, 1716 (Bib# 4656316/Fr# 1412 in this collection). <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102654" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>