An Exposition of the Church-Catechism. To which is added, His Three Practical Essays, on Baptism, Confirmation, and Repentance. Containing Full Instructions for a Holy Life: with earnest Exhortations, especially to young Persons, drawn from the Consideration of the Severity of the Discipline of the Primitive Church.

Clarke, Samuel & John

Published by S. Powell, for G. Risk at the Shakespear's Head, G. Ewing at the Angel and Bible, and W. Smith at the Hercules, Booksellers in Dame's-Street, 1730

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First Irish edition. Ink number stamp on page following title page of Exposition. Rebound by Green Dragon Bindery in half-leather with marbled boards, with their sticker on the rear endpaper. Two volumes bound in one. 172, 140 pp. ESTC T212209. Samuel Clarke was among those who delivered Boyle's Lectures. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, and translated Newton's Opticks, while defending him from the criticisms of Leibniz. The first of the two works included in this volume was published from the author's manuscript by John Clarke, D.D., Dean of Sarum, and is the first Irish edition of the work. The second work comprises three essays written by S. Clarke, which had previously been published in Ireland, but appear together with the Exposition here for the first time.

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• Title: An Exposition of the Church-Catechism. To which is added, His Three Practical Essays, on Baptism, Confirmation, and Repentance. Containing Full Instructions for a Holy Life: with earnest Exhortations, especially to young Persons, drawn from the Consideration of the Severity of the Discipline of the Primitive Church.
• Publisher: S. Powell, for G. Risk at the Shakespear's Head, G. Ewing at the Angel and Bible, and W. Smith at the Hercules, Booksellers in Dame's-Street
• Publication Date: 1730
• Binding: Half-Leather
• Edition: First Irish Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 17 ounces