The Works of the Reverend and Learned Divine, Thomas Jackson, D. D., Sometime President of Corpus Christi College in Oxon : Such As Were, and Such As Never Before Were Printed: In Three Volumes: With the Authors Life,

2 volumes of 3. Bound in contemporary full leather. Cambridge style tooling to front boards. Gilt lettering on orange spine label. 5 raised bands. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Boards starting. Front board of Volume I detached. Library markings. Clean, unmarked pages with tanning. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Thomas Jackson (1579-1640) was an English theologian, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Originally a Calvinist, he became in later life an Arminian. His chief work was a series of commentaries on the Apostles' Creed, the first complete edition being entitled The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D, edited by Barnabas Oley. The commentaries were originally published in 1613 to 1657, as twelve books with different titles, the first being The Eternal Truth of 1613. Jackson's personal views were strongly against the Catholic doctrine on transubstantiation. He was an early anti-Calvinist among Oxford theologians. He made his views known only in the late 1620s, but stated that around 1605 he had already decided against predestination. In theology he was a syncretic Platonist. He took an interest in the Epicurean view of free will, but argued for a middle way accommodating the Stoic criticism of the Epicureans. His humanistic Platonism has been compared to that of Robert Burton; and William Prynne, arguing against William Laud's promotion of Jackson, claimed his learning only made him more dangerous.…