The fathers, the reformers, and the public formularies, of the Church of England, in harmony with Calvin, and against the Bishop of Lincoln; : to which is prefixed a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the subject of this controversy. / By a layman. ; With a preface, notes, and an appendix, by an American clergyman. ; [Nine lines of quotations].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Allen, John, 1771-1839.

Contributor:

• Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Series:

• Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39936.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Pretyman, George, 1750-1827. Refutation of Calvinism.
• Church of England--Doctrines.
• Church of England.
• Anglican Communion--Doctrines.
• Calvinism--Great Britain.
• Sin, Original.
• Calvinism.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxxv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 38-203 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Published by Philip H. Nicklin and A. Small., 1817.

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• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• Extracts from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion in parallel columns with extracts from formularies of the Church of England, quotations from Tomline's work, and comments by the author; followed by a two chapters headed: The sentiments of the fathers of the Protestant Episcopal Church [and] Conclusion.
• Attributed to John Allen in the Dictionary of national biography. His letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, p. [xi]-xxxv, is signed: A layman. April 30, 1812.
• The preface to the American edition is dated: Philada. Jan. 17, 1817.
• Copyright Jan. 25, 1817 by Philip H. Nicklin.
• Last page blank.
• "The Calvinistic doctrine of original sin stated and defended."--Appendix, p. [177]-203.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39936).
• Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. Institutio Christianae religionis.

Contains:

American clergyman. Calvinistic doctrine of original sin stated and defended.

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