THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE OFFICE OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE. CONSIDER'S IN A SERMON PREACH'D BEFORE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR GEORGE THOROLD, KT. LORD-MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON, AND THE COURT OF ALDERMEN, AND THE LIVERIES OF THE SEVERAL COMPANIES... by Ibbot, Benjamin - 1720

London: John Wyat, 1727. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Full leather, edges worn, hinges cracking, little chipping of back strip. A little light foxing inside. Scarce Boyle Lectures title. Size: 8vo. 16 + 536 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; 18th century; Religion & Theology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

London: Printed for John Wyat, at the Rose of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1727. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. ESTC T55132. Rebound somewhat recently with new end sheets: dark brown leather spine with leather label over hardcover boards with gilt titles and decorations. Lightly foxed throughout, owner blind stamp on new end sheet. 1727 Hard Cover. 264 pp. 8vo. Includes eight sermons and a list of people who preached the Boyle Lecture 1696-1726. The apparent purpose of these lectures was to reconcile the principle of free will with the ideal of religious faith and obedience to God. Sermons include: Of the Cautions Necessary to Be Observ'd in the Use of Private Judgment, or Freethinking.; The Objections against Private Judgment Answer'd.; The Benefits and Advantages of Private Judgment.; Concerning the Authority of the Antients.; Objections Out of Scripture, against Free-Thinking, Answer'd.; More Objections Out of Scripture, against Free-Thinking, Answer'd.; That the Scriptures Do… Read More

London: John Wyat, 1727. First edition, 8vo, pp. [20], 272, 264; contemporary full paneled calf, unadorned spine; spine ends a little chipped, joints starting but still good and sound. " In 1713 and 1714, by appointment of the archbishop, he preached the Boyle lectures, and replied to Anthony Collins's ëDiscourse of Free-thinking in matters of Religion.í George I appointed him one of his chaplains-in-ordinary in 1716, and when his majesty visited Cambridge on 6 Oct. 1717 Ibbot was, by royal mandate, created D.D. He was appointed preacher-assistant to Dr. Samuel Clarke at St. James's, Westminster, and rector of St. Paul's, Shadwell; and on 26 Nov. 1724 was installed a prebendary of Westminster. He died at Camberwell on 5 April 1725, and was buried in Westminster Abbey" (DNB).

London; Salem; Boston; Newburyport; Haverhill; Exon.: E. Matthews; J. Buckland; Samuel Hall; T. and J. Fleet; Blunt and March; Moore & Stebbins; Andrew Brice; Robert Clavell; John Phillips; John Wyat; R. Hett; John Pemberton; Jonathan Robinson; John Churchill.. All First Editions except the Sherlock, which is a Second Edition. Leather spine and corners and marbled paper-covered boards. Front cover separated but holding by the cords, two-thirds of spine label no longer present; small chips at head and foot of spine, few leaves with corner chips but no text affected, number notations in ink on few rear blanks, heavy foxing of Newman sermon, names in ink on some sermons, Good. List of Sermons: The Protestant -Succession, Benjamin Robinson, 1719, British. A Sermon Preached at New-Court, Carey-Street, Richard Winter, 1759, British. A Sermon Delivered at Andover, William Symmes, 1769, American. A Sermon Preached on the Day of Annual and National Thanksgiving, David Osgood, 1784, American. A Thanksgiving… Read More