Author: FLEMING (Robert):
Title: Discourses On several Subjects. The First containing a new Account of the Rise and Fall of the Papacy. The Second upon God's dwelling with Men. The Third concerning the Ministerial Office. The Fourth being a brief Account of Religion as it centers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Description: London, Printed for Andr. Bell..., 1701. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], clxxvii [clxxviii blank], [2], 248 [249 - 264 Contents, 265 - 266 adverts], contemporary panelled calf, old paper label on spine; lacks portrait, notes in 20th century hand on front end-papers, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint slightly cracked. Fleming (?1660 - 1716) was the son of Robert Fleming (1630 - 1694), an ejected Scottish minister; born in Cambuslang, he went with his father in 1679 to Holland. He later served as minister to the Scots church at Rotterdam and then the Scots church at Lothbury. The first work excited a great of attention because of the various prophecies Fleming based on arithmetical calculations of events in the Bible.

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