An Answer to Fools and a Word to the Wise, Addressed to the Reverend Maria de Fleury, John Ryland and Co.
by Huntington, William
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for G. Terry, Bookseller [et al.] . . . Sold also, at Providence Chapel; at Monkwell Street Meeting, every Tuesday Evening; and at Horsleydown, every Thursday Evening 1792. First edition.
Some light foxing and toning; in very good condition.
8vo, recent boards with covered with older white paper stock, 103 pages.
"Maria has labored hard, I believe, almost five years, against my licentious life and doctrines, and without proving one just charge against me of immorality; and, on the other hand, she has not produced one person to bear witness, before the churches, of any one good work--either work of the Law, work of faith, or work of the hands--that ever she performed, but one; and that was cooking the calf's-head, the night that the synod was convened against me, and she threw that into the ashes. . . . It was deemed no less than a miracle that Maria was not drowned in the pottage-pot; but some of the opposite party view it as a bad omen to them, that their councils and their religious profession would as surely fall to the ground, as the Calf's-head fell into the ashes."
A characteristic controversial tract from "the coalheaver prophet," offered for sale at the venues where he preached, a point-by-point ad mulierem attack against Baptist Maria de Fleury (and by extension her intimate friend John Ryland). See the DNB for a summary of Huntington's eccentric career. Contemporary ink autograph addition to the imprint, "and [sold] by T. Barston, Granthorn, Linc're.
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- Bookseller
- Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21237
- Title
- An Answer to Fools and a Word to the Wise, Addressed to the Reverend Maria de Fleury, John Ryland and Co.
- Author
- Huntington, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- Printed for G. Terry, Bookseller [et al.] . . . Sold also, at Providence Chapel; at Monkwell Street Meeting, every Tuesday Eveni
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1792.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Controversial Literature; Eccentric or Insane Authors;
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