A Short and Easie Method with the Deists, : Wherein the Certainity of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof
by Leslie, Charles [1650-1722]
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Minor rubbing. VG. Christian Theology C. Brome London 1701 3rd Edition. Later boards 17x11cm, [2],xii,57,[7], Recent binder's blind boards. [2],xii,57,[7]pp. Full title reads: "A Short and Easie Method with the Deists, : Wherein the Certainity of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof : From IV Rules, Which are Incompatible to any Imposture that ever yet has been, or that can Possibly be. In a Letter to a Friend". "Printed for C. Brome at the Gun, W. Keblewhite at the Swan in St. Paul's Churchyard, E. Poole at the Half-Moon, and Geo. Strahan, at the Golden-Ball, near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, 1701". ["Leslie, nonjuror and controversialist .,,,.In 1691 he returned to Glaslough, and wrote his first work, An Answer to a Book intituled the State of the Protestants in Ireland under the late King James's Government. It was published without license at London in 1692, 4to, and though anonymous was at once ascribed to Leslie. Written in a strongly partisan spirit, it was treated by the government as a libel, Glaslough was searched, and the manuscript discovered in Leslie's study. He himself, however, could not be found, and the proceedings were allowed to drop...,.To a lady friend, who had been staggered with the arguments of deism even to distraction, he wrote a letter containing a brief summary of the evidences of Christianity, as he conceived them, prevailed with her to copy it in her own hand, and thus established her in the faith. This argument he published, retaining the epistolary form, but substituting sir for madam, as A Short and Easie Method with the Deists..,." - DNB].
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- Title
- A Short and Easie Method with the Deists, : Wherein the Certainity of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof
- Author
- Leslie, Charles [1650-1722]
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- Used - Minor rubbing. VG.
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- 3rd Edition.
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- Hardcover
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- C. Brome
- Date Published
- 1701
- Keywords
- Anglican Theology Apologetics Church of England Deist Episcopacy Controversial Literature English Deism
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