Author: ARSCOTT (Alexander):
Title: Some Considerations relating to the Present State of the Christian Religion; wherein the Nature, End, and Design of Christianity, as well as the Principal Evidence of the truth of it, are explained and recommended out of the Holy Scriptures; with a general appeal to the experience of all men for confirmation thereof. In Three Parts. The Third Edition.
Description: London: Printed and sold by J. Phillips..., 1779. 8vo, pp. viii, 289 [290 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; front joint wormed and holding by one cord, top and base of spine chipped. With the ownership notation "Henry Owen's Bot. at London in 1811" in pencil and ink on the front paste-down end-paper and copious marginal notes in pencil in the same hand, with another leaf of notes in ink and pencil loosely inserted. Arscott (1676 - 1737) published parts one and two of this work in 1730 - 1731, and Benjamin Franklin printed both parts in Philadelphia in 1731 and 1732. Part 3 was first published in 1734, but this is the first appearance of all three parts in one volume. Part 2 comments extensively on Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). ESTC T115189 locates copies in L, C, LANu; CaAEU, CaBViV, InRE.

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