1642 Of Religious Assemblies & The Publick Service Of God By Thorndike CIVIL War

  
I have here for sale a RARE book entitled OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES AND THE PUBLICK SERVICE OF GOD A Discourse according to Apostolicall Rule and Practice by Herbert Thorndike. It is a first edition published in 1642 by Roger Daniel. This was one of a flurry of religious works published by the Arminian established Church to counteract the Puritan Protestant flood of publications! Herbert Thorndike (1598 - 11 June 1672) was an English academic and clergyman, known as an orientalist and Canon of Westminster Abbey. He was an influential theological writer during the reigns of King Charles I and, after the Restoration, King Charles II. His work would be considered important in the 19th century by key members of the Oxford Movement.

Thorndike's position as a theologian was unusual and some of his views were challenged from his own side of the debates, in particular by Isaac Barrow in his posthumous tract on The Unity of the Church, and by Henry More in his Antidote to Idolatry. He countenanced the practice of prayers for the dead; and by Cardinal Newman he was regarded as the only writer of any authority in the English church who held the true theory of the Eucharist. Brown leather hardboards with a stamped border with lozenges to the corners. A few minor cracks to the leather, otherwise in very good condition, especially for its age.

Light stain to the title page and first couple of pages and the last 20 or so pages, a small black ink stain to the bottom of page 394. All others clean and the binding is tight. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.