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Richard Royston. Good. xl 559/558pp brown leather binding with raised bands on spine, crease down spine, corners bumped, binding worn, loss on corner, lacks frontispiece & part of title page missing, front hinge exposed, endpapers marked, page edges discoloured text unmarked
Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures:serving as a great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience in Our Books. (2 volumes in 1) by Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667 - 1660
by Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667
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Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures:serving as a great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience in Our Books. (2 volumes in 1)
by Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667
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London: Printed By James Flesher, for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-Lane, 1660. Folio. . Spine reads: Rule of Conscience. 2 volumes in one. Volume 1 [6] xi, 559 pages. Volume 2 558 pages [2] leaves of plates. Jeremy Taylor was a clergyman in the Church of England who was a chaplain to King Charles I as a result of Archbishop Laud's sponsorship. when the Purtian Parliament came to power in the English Civil War, he was imprisoned by eventually allowed to live quietly in Wales, where he began to write profound works on religion and philosophy. His writing on the issues of conscience assumed that human reason could discern the good act (see John Spurr in Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers). He has been called the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing. Bound in full contemporary calf, earlier rebacking, endpapers renewed, foot of spine leather chipped. A few early marginal repairs. A very nice copy.
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- Publisher Printed By James Flesher, for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-Lane
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- Keywords Conscience, Early Works to 1800; Casuistry, Early Works to 1800; Christian Ethics, Early Works to 1800;
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Ductor dubitantium or the rule of conscience in all her generall measures; serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience in four books (small folio)
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Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience In all her generall measures; Serving as a great Instrument for the determination of Cases of Conscience. In Four Books.
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London: Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston 1660 First edition. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind, expertly rebacked and recornered. Title in gilt on spine. . Two volumes in one, folio. Engraved title and frontisportrait, engraved vignette of Jesus carrying a lamb on the title-page to the second volume. Printed title-pages for both volumes ruled in red. L6 in the second volume is a cancel, as usual, reflecting a change due to the Restoration of Charles II. Light intermittent dampstain at upper corner. A very good, clean copy. Ductor dubitantium was designed as a comprehensive manual of cases of conscience which would form a capstone to the English Protestant edifice already created by Sanderson, Hall, and Perkins. No longer would English clergy need to consult Roman Catholic casuists and run the risk of being misled by their 'probablism.' Taylor promised general rules from which every particular case could be resolve...Taylor believed that there is always a right answer in moral dilemmas,…
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