Theologae vere Christianae Apologia

by Robert Barclay

$4,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Expertly bound to style in 17th-century calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, spine ruled in gilt. Very rare first edition of a Quaker masterwork: the primary explanation of their principles. Publication of this work had an immediate affect on the development of Quakerism and the treatment of its followers. The Apology , writes Dean Inge, became for a whole century a second Bible for the Society of Friends . Written when Barclay was still in his

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