A Treatise Of The Perpetuall Visibility, And Succession of the True Church in all Ages.
[ABBOT, (George, Archbishop of Canterbury)].
Second Edition. Small 4to. [8], 110pp. Contemporary limp vellum, covers with a gilt panel with fleurons at the corners and in the centre and initials "ES" (discoloured, the gilt very faint).
London: by Augustine Matthewes and John Norton, for Robert Milbourne, 1624
STC 40 (+; Princeton only in U.S.A.). Somewhat grubby and dampstained, a little marginal worming
Bound with: BERNARD (Richard). Looke beyond Luther: Or An Answere to that question, so often and so insultingy proposed by our Adversaries, asking us; Where this our Religion was before Luthers time? Whereto are added sound props to beare up honest-hearted Protestants, that they fall not from their saving-faith. Fourth Edition. [6], 55pp. London: by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Edmund Weaver, 1624. STC 1957 (+;+).
Two contributions to the "Fisher Controversy" over the pre-Reformation origins of the Protestant Church.
Provenance: Initials "ES" on the covers. Richard Hilditch, with various signatures dated 1662 and 1663 and numerous annotations on the blank leaves in prose and verse including a list of the Kings of England and a page on "What is the Soule of Man" as well as mathematical calculations
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