1682 Lux Orientalis, Pre-Existence of Souls, Glanvill + Truth Discourse, Rust

Description: Two Choice and Useful Treatises: The One Lux Orientalis; Or An Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Preexistence of Souls. Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of Providence. In Relation to Mans Sin and Misery. The Other, A Discourse of Truth, By the late Reverend Dr. Rust Lord Bishop of Dromore in ireland. With Annotations in them both. London: Printed for James Collins, and Sam. Lowndes over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1682-3. Original Cambridge binding measuring 7.5 x 5", 8vo. Collation: FRONTISPIECE LACKING. [46] pp (Title page to Lux Orentalis dated 1682 & prelims) +151 pp + [13] pp (Title page to Discourse of Truth dated 1682) + 165 - 195 + [7] pp LACKING PAGES 165 - 174 (Title page to Annotations upon the Two foregoing Treatises "by one not unexercized in these kinds of Speculation," 1682) + 171 pp + [7] pp (Title page to Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth. Dr. Henry More, 1683) +173 - 276 + [4] pp catalogue of books printed for Lowndes. In poor condition. As is. Front board detached from binding; rear board attached by cording only (fragile). Boards are scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Moderate soiling leather covered boards. Top corner of rear board lacking leather. Top compartment of leather spine lacking - binding exposed. No title label on spine. Tail of spine exhibits some tearing. Front paste-down beginning to peel away from binding at fore & bottom edges. Previous ownership signature, in ink, found on front paste-down: "William Ireland, 1851." Marginalia below signature. Preliminary pages lacking; text begins at title page. Age-staining to top edge of title page. Red ink on title page dulled, but still attractive. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block; instances of finger-soiling and age-staining. Rear paste-down lacking - binding exposed. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Joseph Glanvill (1636-1860) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661, he predicted "to converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence." He was the author of The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661), which attacked scholasticism and religious persecution. It was a plea for religious toleration, the scientific method, and freedom of thought. He is also known for Saducismus Triamphatus (1681), an enlargement of his Blow at Modern Sadducism (1668), which was published after Glanvill's death by Henry More. The work decreed skepticism about the existence and supernatural power of witchcraft and contained a collection of 17th-century folklore about witches, including one of the earliest descriptions of a witch bottle. Joseph made known the existence of witchcraft. Saducismus Triumphatus deeply influenced Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1693), written to justify the Salem Witch Trials in the following year. George Rust (died 1670) was an English Anglican academic and churchman, who became bishop of Dromore in 1667. He is known as a Cambridge Platonist and associate of Jeremy Taylor. In 1655, Rust delivered a Latin discourse in Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, in answer to Pontius Pilate's question What is Truth? At the commencement of 1658, he maintained in the same place the thesis that scripture teaches the resurrection of the body, and that reason does not refute it. Rust said he had studied all creeds, and preferred the Church of England. Original binding. Lacking frontispiece and 9 pp of Annotations of two treatises. RAREB1682CNOB 05/24 - HK1589FORN-SHELF-0461-BB-2409-HKREV13

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