Author: FLETCHER (John):
Title: A Vindication of the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Last Minutes: Occasioned by A circular, printed Letter. Inviting principal Persons, Both Clergy and Laity, as well of the Dissenters as of the established Church, Who disapprove of those Minutes, To oppose them in a Body, as a dreadful Heresy: and designed T removed Prejudice, check Rashness, promote Forbearance, defend the Character of an eminent Minister of Christ, and prevent some important scriptural Truths from being hastily branded as heretical. In Five Letters, To the Hon. and Rev. Author of the circular Letters. By a Lover of Quietness and Liberty of Conscience.
Description: London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., 1788. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 98. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Second Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., n. d. [1771]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xi [xii blank], 109 [110 blank], including half-title. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Third Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. The Second Edition London: London: Printed by Robert Hawes..., 1775. 3 volumes bound in 1, 170 x 105 mms., contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label reading "Fletcher's Works" and "2" in gilt below label; some water-staining of texts, spine rubbed, joints a little worn, top and base of spine worn, but a good copy, with a date of 1797 on top margin of recto of front free end-paper, a former owner's name obscured ("Samuel [?Coosier]/ His Book" and "[?Henry] Humphreys" below that. Fletcher (1729 - 1785) wrote these works, along with other "checks to Antinomianism" in reply to a work by Walter Shirley, An Impartial View, of A Narrative of the Principal Circumstances relative to the Rev. Mr. Wesley's late Conference..., first published in 1771.

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