1658 SERIOUS QUESTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY - Revelation USHER Reformed VELLUM BIBLE

Description: GRAVISSIMÆ QUESTIONI DE CHRISTIANARUM Hanover, Haeredum Aubrianorum 1658 Item Description: Usserio, Jacobo (1658). Gravissimae Questioni de Chistianarum (Serious Questions of Christianity). Hanover, Haeredum Aubrianorum. In Latin. 10mo (4”x7”) bound in vellum with original boards. 446pp, second edition, first printing. Title inscription on spine in ink. Some darkening to edges, cover and back clear. Faint staining on pages throughout. Spine loose at back cover. Vellum separating slightly from boards at front and back. Small hole in vellum on back at right corner. Text clear and legible. Book plate from the Scottish Episcopal Church Library - Edinburgh. Previous owner’s name (“Andrew Logie”) on verso next to title page. Includes another name in pencil underneath (“Ulysseus de Eroles”?). Historical Provenance: James Ussher (1581 - 1656) was the Archbishop of Armagh and a noted scholar. This text, dedicated to James 1 was “to prove that Christ had always a Visible Church of true Christians, who had not been tainted with the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome. Ussher himself states in his preface, that his work may be considered a continuation of Bishop Jewell’s Apology for the Church of England, in which he had proved that her doctrines were the same as those professed by the Church in the first six centuries” (Elrington, 34). This demonstrated what became the hallmarks of Ussher's published work: thorough and impartial scholarship which demonstrated a rare gift for discovering and printing crucial primary sources; often, however, allied to a rather more partial and polemical subtext. The main substance of the work was a meticulous and path-breaking account of many medieval heretical groups, based upon extensive and often original manuscript research. But it also had an underlying polemical purpose: this was to trace the rise of Antichrist in the Roman Catholic church, especially from the eleventh century, and to demonstrate how the purity of the Christian gospel was preserved in the later middle ages by groups such as the Cathars and Waldensians. Hence Ussher sought to emphasize the proto-protestant elements of the heretics, and discard as Catholic distortions evidence which contradicted this. According to the table of contents, the work was to extend up to the Reformation, but the latter part was never completed; Ussher abandoned the narrative in the early twelfth century, thus leaving it unclear just how radical he was prepared to be in tracing a non-episcopal descent for the protestant churches through an at times bizarre collection of heretics.* These texts likely were deaccessioned when the Brown-Lindsay Library was dispersed amongst the three Free Church Colleges following union in 1900. “Following the formation of the United Presbyterian Church in 1847, the Rev. John Brown, D.D. (1784-1858) and the Rev. William Lindsay, D.D. (1802-1866) were among the founding members of the College and its first two professors of Exegetical Theology. Several of the texts offered here formed part of their library, reflect their own interests and those of their time, but also contain a range of subject matter which mark them as theologians with a knowledge of much wider religious questions and their implications. The majority of this collection encompasses 300 years of the history of the dissenting Presbyterian Churches but also includes unusual rarities reflecting wider religious issues. Dating from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries, they are predominantly Presbyterian and there is an inevitable anti-Catholic and anti-Episcopalian tone throughout the collection. Many of the rare, early pamphlets relate to the early dissent from the established church and the formation of the Secession Church. Other, seventeenth-century works are concerned with the religious questions of monarchy, church and state brought about by the English Civil War and, later, the union of 1707. Many of the eighteenth-century works concentrate on the wider implications for the churches brought about by the questions of philosophy and religion, events such as the French Revolution and greater religious toleration.”** *Elrington, Charles R. The Whole Works of The Most Rev. James Ussher, Dublin, Hodges, Smith, and Co., 1864. **University of Aberdeen, The Brown-Lindsay and Christ’s College Pamphlet Collection, www.abdn.ac.uk _____________________________________ Rare Bibles specializes in early printed English Bibles, books, manuscripts, and objet d?art. Items listed on eBay are merely representative of our broader inventory. Please do not hesitate to enquire regarding other early printed books and manuscripts.

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