Essays on Scripture Metaphors, Divine Justice, Divine Mercy, and the Doctrine of Satisfaction

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis...., 1785. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 216 x 137 mms., pp. [ii], 125 [126 adverts], contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; front cover detached, 19th century bookplate of Jonathan Simonds on front paste-down end-paper, autograph of [? "Edi Carneuse"] on top margin of title-page and sprawling autograph "George M Lumly/ Lexington/ Mass" written between title words. Ludlam (1717 - 1788) was a theologian and mathematician; this book was published in the same year as his Rudiments of Mathematics, which served as a textbook at Cambridge for around 30 years. Some of his views on Biblical language did not sit well with his evangelical brethren, e. g. "We read that God said Let there be light, and there was light. that he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. This is plainly a metaphorical representation; but it is such a one as conveys the most sublime idea of the divine omnipotence." ESTC T55226 locates 15 copies in UK libraries; and copies at Boston College, University of Missouri, and Yale in the United States. OCLC adds Dartmouth and McGill.