A CONFUTATION OF TWO TRACTS, ENTITLED A VINDICATION OF THE NEW-ENGLAND CHURCHES

Whitaker, Nathaniel

Published by Printed by Isaiah Thomas, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, 1774

About this Item

Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5 in., pp. [iii], iv, 5-98, [2] (blank). Missing title page. First leaf chipped at fore-edge with one inch closed tear. Tanning, offset staining, and age-toning to leaves. Folded corners to final four leaves. Evans 13768. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, one of the most famous and influential patriots and printers of the colonial era. Confutation of Two Tracts is a 1774 theological and political pamphlet written by the American clergyman Nathaniel Whitaker. Whitaker targets John Wise's famous early 18th-century foundational tracts - The Churches' Quarrel Espoused (1710) and A Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches (171) - arguing that Wise gave church bodies too much unchecked power. Whitaker argued that John Wise's defense of local church autonomy made the local brotherhoods as despotic as the Pope, and he sought to dismantle the idea that church power originates from the congregation, asserting instead an absolute top-down divine authority rooted in Jesus Christ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A CONFUTATION OF TWO TRACTS, ENTITLED A VINDICATION OF THE NEW-ENGLAND CHURCHES
• Publisher: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston
• Publication Date: 1774
• Binding: Stitched Pamphlet
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana