An historical preface to Primitive Christianity reviv'd. With an Appendix Containing An Account of the Author's Prosecution at, and Banishment from the University of Cambridge. By William Whiston, M.A.
8vo. ff. [3] (first blank), pp. 116, 35, [5], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: A-G8 H2 A-B8 C4. Calf. Remnants of lettering panels on spine. The five final pages contain "Proposals for printing by subscription, Mr. Whiston’s Collection" before the errata list.
This work is the first part of a 1711-1712 dispute the English theologian William Whiston (1667-1752) had with Johann Ernest Grabe (see Bib# 4102654-4102657/Fr# 86-89 in this collection) about the ‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels, and ‘Apostolic Constitutions’, attributed to Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement I), which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562, see Bib# 4102652/Fr# 84) and De constitutionibus apostolicis (first complete Latin edition, 1563 (Bib# 4102653/Fr# 85). See also Whiston’s St. Clement’s and St. Irenaeus’s vindication of the apostolical constitutions, from several objections made against them [...] second edition [with large additions]. London, 1716 (Bib# 4656316/Fr# 1412 in this collection).
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