The Religion of Protestants A Safe Way to Salvation. Or An Answer to a Booke Entitled Mercy and Truth Or, Charity maintain'd by Catholiques, which pretends to prove the Contrary

Second edition. [30], 393, [1] pp. Folio. Chillingworth (1602-1644), grandson of Archbishop Laud, was one of the brilliant circle of wits and divines who gathered at Great Tew after the Restoration to discuss poetry as well as theological issues. After converting to Catholicism, then back to Protestantism, Chillingworth wrote this his magnum opus, which became a cornerstone of post-Restoration theology. His book and the clarity of his reasoning was praised by Locke, and, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "the whole gist of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, 'I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it.'". ESTC S107219; STC 5139 Contemporary polished speckled calf. label on spine. A Handsome copy.