A Collection of Cases and Other Discourses Lately Written to Recover Dissenters to the Communion of the Church of England. By some Divines of the City of London. The Second Edition. To which are prefixed, A Catalogue of all the Cases and Discourses, with the Authors Names; together with three Tables: Containing, I. the contents of each Discourse. II. The Scriptures Illustrated and Occasionally Explained. III. The several Authors Cited of Examines.

Printed for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet-street, and Benj. Tooke., 1694. Hardcover. folio, 32 cms (12.5 ins) x 20 cms (7.8 ins), [xxx],1-16,xvii-xxvi,17-220,221-507,[v]pp, there is some irregular pagination in gathering "Ii" however the text is complete and in correct order, the catchwords corresponding throughout the entire work; contemporary calf rebacked with blind tooling, corners carefully restored, binding very firm; some marginal worming, a few water stains, last few leaves dusty at top, a couple of marginal tears not affecting text, however the text is overall very clean, book overall very good. Notes: Makeup: front free endpaper followed by 3 unsigned leaves (title page, dedication page, "Catalogue of all Cases"), then Signatures: a-c4 B-E2 [f]-[h]4 G-Z4 A2-Zz4 Aa2-Xxx4, followed by 2 leaves ("A table of Texts of Scripture" and "Table of Those Authors Who are Cited in this Book") and a final free endpaper. Provenance: "The Hope Trust", Edinburgh. English Dissenters: Protestant Christians who disagreed in opinion, belief andother matters and separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many emigrated to the "New World", especially to British colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) on the Atlantic coast of North America, and also to Canada. It is considered by many that English dissenters played a key role in the spiritual development of the United States. This spirit of independence, initially born of the determination to achieve independence in conduct of religious observance, gave rise eventually to the American Revolutionary War of 1775 and subsequent independence in 1776.Wing 5116