Description: SERMONS AND DISCOURSES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS. Volume II. The Sixth Edition. by Francis Atterbury, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster. Printed for T. Wooward, and C. Davis against Gray's Inn, Holbourn, London. MDCCLI. Good Condition hardcover book. MDCCLI (1751) date on title page. Exterior: Brown leather binding is clean, square, shopworn. Front hinge is cracked. Gilt lettering on hubbed spine. Spine has reading creases. Gilt border on front and back panels. Interior: Endpapers are soiled, toned, few stained spots. Book plate on front paste down. Few small tears in title page. Pages are clean, toned, wavy. 375 pages plus 78 numbered pages of Preface. Contents: In lengthy Preface, Atterbury chooses to defend and not retract a controversial funeral sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Aug. 30, 1706. Preface followed by sermon. "Were there no Life after this, men would be more miserable than beasts: for in this life, it is plain that beasts have in many respects, the advantage...inasmuch as they enjoy greater sensual pleasures, and feel fewer corporal pains, and are utter strangers to all those anxious and tormenting thoughts which perpetually haunt and disquiet mankind" -excerpt.
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Binding: Leather
Topic: Sermons, Homilies
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Year Printed: 1751
