Author: [ Howell, William ]
Title: Peace And Unity Recommended - A Sermon Preach'd Before The University Of Oxford At St Mary's On Sunday Aug. 17th. 1712. By The Author Of A Collection Intitled The Common-Prayer Book, The Best Companion &c
Description: Oxford - Printed at the Theatre, for Anthony Peisley: and are to be sold by J. Knapton, H. Clements, and J. Morphew, booksellers in London, 1712, 1st edition. Disbound. VG. 20pp, paper a little yellowed, a nice copy. Most of the last page is a catalogue of Peisley's other publications. Disbound , no dustjacket. ¶ Sermon in which William Howell [ 1655 - 1714 ] reveals his high-church beliefs. 'In it he declared that it was lawful for the church to demand conformity in indifferent things' [DNB]. The verso of the title is the Imprimatur of William Lancaster, formerly vice-chancellor of Oxford University. Howell was schoolmaster and curate of Ewelme in Oxfordshire for many years and was a popular Devotional writer, having several works in the press. The Sermon is on Collossians II, v15.

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