An apology for the true Christian divinity, as the same is held forth, and preached by the people, called, in scorn, Quakers : being a full explanation and vindication of their principles and doctrines, by many arguments, deduced from Scriptur and right reason, and the testimonys of famous authors, both antient and modern, with a full answer to the strongest objections usually made against them, presented to the King / written and published in Latine, for the information of strangers, by Robert Barclay ; and now put into our own language, for the benefit of his countrey-men.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.

Contributor:

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Theologiae verè Christianae apologia

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends--Controversial literature.

Society of Friends.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)

Jonsson, James (autograph, 1682) (inscription)

Longe, John (autograph)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 412 pages, 28 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

[Aberdeen?] : [publisher not identified], 1678.

Language Note:

Translation into English of: Theologiae verè Christianae apologia.

Notes:

Signatures: pi² *⁴-3*⁴(-3*4) A-V⁴ W⁴ X-2V⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3G⁴.

Woodcut initials.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index.

Cf. Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 149.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Library's copy with ms. notes on front endpapers.

Bound with: Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690. Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian divinity vindicated from John Brown's examination and pretended confutation thereof in his book, called Quakerisme tha path-way to paganisme. [London] : Printed in the year 1679 and are to be sold by Benjamin Clerk ... at London, [1679]

Cited in:

Smith, J. Friends' books, I, 179-180

Wing (2nd ed.) B720

ESTC R14317

OCLC:

64435077