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BUNYAN, John (1628-1688). A Defence of the Doctrine of Iustification, by Faith in Jesus Christ: shewing, true Gospel-holiness flows from thence. London: for Francis Smith, 1672.
4° (195 x 136mm). Collation: A2 B-Q4. 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Tiny repair to outer margin of title; tear in P1 repaired without loss; occasional small repairs to blank margins, especially in quire P.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, by F. Bedford. Provenance: Cardiff Castle bookplate.
FIRST EDITION. Bunyan wrote this work a few weeks before leaving the County Gaol at Bedford, in order to refute what he described as the "brutish and beastly latitudinarianism" of Edward Fowler's Design of Christianity, published in 1671. Bunyan's work received an almost immediate reply, probably from Fowler, entitled Dirt wipt off: or A manifest Discovery of the Gross Ignorance, Erroneousness and most Unchristian and Wicked Spirit of one John Bunyan. Wing B-5507; Harrison 15.
4° (195 x 136mm). Collation: A2 B-Q4. 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Tiny repair to outer margin of title; tear in P1 repaired without loss; occasional small repairs to blank margins, especially in quire P.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, by F. Bedford. Provenance: Cardiff Castle bookplate.
FIRST EDITION. Bunyan wrote this work a few weeks before leaving the County Gaol at Bedford, in order to refute what he described as the "brutish and beastly latitudinarianism" of Edward Fowler's Design of Christianity, published in 1671. Bunyan's work received an almost immediate reply, probably from Fowler, entitled Dirt wipt off: or A manifest Discovery of the Gross Ignorance, Erroneousness and most Unchristian and Wicked Spirit of one John Bunyan. Wing B-5507; Harrison 15.