The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists Compared in Three Parts
London: J. and P. Knapton, 1754. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine. Item #009187
Later printing. Speckled brown calf, rebacked with raised bands and leather label, [6], 63pp, xxxiii, 158pp, [26], 228pp plus [2] ads. The armorial bookplate of RI Green on front pastedown, separate title page to vol. one and two [with discreet owner name]; boards are slightly worn o/w near fine. George Lavington [1684-1762] was the Bishop of Exeter and, during his lifetime was a strong opponent of Methodism. Upon its first publication in 1749, the Enthusiasm of methodists and Papists became his most famous work in which Lavington "paraded the natural excesses commited by the original followers of John Wesley." (Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900).
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