Select Discourses: Treating 1. Of the True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge. 2. Of Superstition. 3. Of Atheism. [and others]

Select Discourses by John Smith, printed in London in 1660 by J. Flesher for W. Morden, is a significant philosophical and theological text from the Cambridge Platonist tradition. Smith emphasized religion as an inward and spiritual practice, distancing it from both sectarian rigidity and skeptical denial. His discourses address superstition, atheism, prophecy, vanity, immortality of the soul, and divine providence, offering a picture of religious thought in mid-seventeenth-century England. This first edition is particularly valued for its role in shaping the intellectual climate of the period and for its status as the earliest printing of Smith’s collected discourses. Condition: Very Good. Leather spine and corners remain strong and intact, boards show rubbing and fading, binding tight, text block secure with expected age toning. Format: Octavo (8vo), single volume, 8 x 6.5 in. Collation: liii, [3], 526, [1] pp. Illustrations: None. Edition: First edition, 1660. References: Not cited. #29345 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.