Observations On The Charter And Conduct Of The Society For The Propagation Of The Gospel In Foreign

by Jonathan Mayhew

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First edition

First edition. 176pp. 8vo. Later half calf and marbled paper boards, rebacked. Provenance: General Theological Society bookplate . Evans 9441; ESTC W21323. Item #373767 The so-called Mayhew controversy between New England Congregationists and the Anglican Episcopal Society for the Progagation of the Gospel is seen as an early pre-Stamp Act assertion of colonial rights. Mayhew's inflammatory work condemned the

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