The Works of the Reverend and Learned Divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. Sometime President of Corpus Christi College in Oxon; Such as were, and such as Never before were Printed. In Three Volumes. With the

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Sets are very common institutionally, with multiple copies in UK college, cathedral and parochial libraries though only 8 in the USA (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Huntington, Library Company of Philadelphia, Library of Congress, Union Theological Seminary, UC-W.A.Clark, Yale), plus one each in Ireland, Canada, France and New Zealand, and two in Australia. However, sets appear to ne surprisingly rare commercially - Rare Book Hub lists only three sets sold in 1871, 1900 and 1966 and an odd imperfect vol. 2 unsold in 2017 and 2018; presumably auctioneers didn’t considered it worth lotting separately. Besides several sermons, the bulk of the three stout volumes of the works of this Newcastle-born Laudian clergyman who was a Fellow and later President (from 1631) of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Dean of Peterborough (1639-40) comprise his, “great series of commentaries on the apostles’ creed in twelve books that is his major theological achievement.” (A. J. Hegarty, ODNB ). Books 1 2 had been published together in 1613, Book 3 in 1614, Book 4 in 1615 (reprinted in 1631), Book 5 in 1625, Book 6 in 1628, Book 7 in 1634, Book 8 in 1635, Book 9 in 1638, Book 10 in 1654 (in Vol. II of the first edition of his Works collected by Barnabas Oley), Book 11 in 1657 (in Vol. 3 of his Works ), and Book 12, part 1, in 1627-28. The 1hree-volume collection of his Works published between 1654 and 1657 did not include Books 4-8 for copyright re

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