Author: WHITE (John):
Title: Three Letters To a Gentleman Dissenting from the Church of England.
Description: London, Printed for C. Davis...and W. Craighton..., 1748. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 8vo, pp. lx [misprint for xl] 277 [278 Errata, 279 - 280 adverts], recently rebound in quarter calf, green morocco label, marbled boards. A very good copy. With the near-contemporary autograph "H. Arnold" on the recto of the top margin of the leaf preceding the title-page and a calligraphic representation of his name further down below the figure of a lion rampant. The 19th century autograph of Charles John Muir also appears on this leaf. White (c. 1685 - 1755) published A Letter to a Gentleman dissenting from the Church of England in 1743, and two further letters followed in 1745. The letters provoked masterly replies from Michaijah Towgood (1700 - 1792), a Presbyterian minister and religious controversialist, with, first, The Dissenting Gentleman's Answer (1746), and two further "letters" in 1747 and 1748. White had charged the "gentleman" of his title, whom he had met personally at a mutual friend's house, with bringing about schism in the Church. The "gentleman" was presumably Towgood, though he is not mentioned by name while Isaac Watts, Samuel Chandler, and Samuel Wesley are. ESTC distinguishes three issues; this is ESTC T25458, with continuous pagination and collation.

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