Author: WARDEN (John):
Title: A System of Revealed Religion, Digested under proper Heads, and Composed in the Express Words of Scriptures; containing All that the Sacred Records reveal, with respect to Doctrine and Duty. By the late Reverend John Warden, M. A. Revised and Published By his Son the Reverend Mr John Warden, Minister of the Gospel in Canongate.
Description: London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly..., 1769. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xv [xvi blank], 736, xvii [xviii blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards (worn and soiled); some damp-staining and foxing of text, front cover and title-page detached, an insalubrious copy. The son, John Warden (1740 - 1788), was the father of John Warden MacFarlane, who added his wife's name to his own upon their marriage. Nothing seems to be known about his father the author of the above book, which, quite properly for a book published in the heyday of the Scottish Enlightenment, about social as well as religious duties

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