Questions and disputations concerning the Holy Scripture; wherein are contained, brief, faithfull and sound expositions of the most difficult and hardest places: approved by the testimony of the scriptures themselves; fully correspondent to the analogie of faith, and the consent of the Church of God…

GIBBENS, Nicholas.

Published by London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston,, 1602

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Quarto. 185mm x 145mm [12], 545, [15]pp Title page dusty, the date has been inked to 1692 but 1602. New endpapers. The running heads have been cropped severely, in some cases losing the whole head and page number, but the crop nowhere encroaches on the text. Original C17th boards with gilt embossed lozenge to front and rear with tooled doubled rule to outer edges of the boards. Recently sympathetically rebacked over raised bands with label. Attractive. This book covers the first 14 chapters of Genesis and was intended to be the first of other volumes on difficult passages in Scripture. Nicholas Gibbon (or Gibbens), the elder, a theological writer active around 1600, enrolled as a pensioner at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in June 1585. He earned his B.A. in 1588 9 and M.A. in 1592, with an incorporation at Oxford in July 1592. Identified with the Nicholas Gibbon of Heckford, Dorsetshire, he is linked to his son, born in Poole in 1605, who later became the rector of Corfe Castle [see Gibbon, Nicholas, the younger, (1605 1697)]. In 1601, Nicholas Gibbon published; Questions and Disputations concerning the Holy Scripture; a substantial work spanning nearly six hundred pages. Focused on the first fourteen chapters of Genesis, it is presented as the first part of the first Tome. By Nicholas Gibbens, Minister and Preacher of the Word of God, in London. Seller Inventory # ABE-1709128804684

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Title: Questions and disputations concerning the ...

Publisher: London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston,

Publication Date: 1602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition