The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the Principal Transactions Religious and Political, connected with The History of Great Britain from the Reformation to the Revolution in 1688

Brown leather spines & corners, red leather title label, marbled boards, 21.5 x 14 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). Binding is scuffed and worn, with cracked joints, boards are still attached. Margin tear and bottom corner loss to the title page. viii., 221, [2] generally clean pages, infrequent pencil marginalia, several indecipherable signatures on the tp, text block is tight. "The subject is very important and interesting, and the design may be considered new. For though many writers have incidentally alluded to the happy arrangement of affairs which facilitated the Reformation.none have given the subject that enlarged and ample consideration, which its importance demands, or furnished proofs of a regular and systematic plan of moral government, sufficiently full and satisfactory." - Preface.Samuel O'Sullivan (1790-1851), Church of Ireland minister and author, converted from Roman Catholicism sometime before 1812, when he entered Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). He was ordained priest and for many years was the chaplain of the Rolay Hibernian Military School. This 1816 publication, The Agency of Divine Providence Manifest." has been called a work of "remarkable maturity." "O'Sullivan devoted much time to literary pursuits and, maintaining his link with TCD, contributed articles to the Dublin University Magazine from its foundation in 1813. Many of these were on historical subjects, especially the events of 1798, but he also wrote on matters such as the state of the Irish Church and the Free Church movment in Scotland.[He] also published several articles in Fraser's Magazine and Blackwood's Magazine, and producted Catechism of the United Church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed (1850). In 1851 he was appointed Donnellan lecturer at TCD." - David Murphy, Dictionary of Irish Biography online.…