Lot 50
Peter KING Enquiry into the Primitive Church 1719 2nd

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[John WESLEY] - [Peter KING (author)] An Enquiry into ... The Primitive Church [1719 second edition]

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[John WESLEY] - [Peter KING (author)]. An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity & Worship, of The Primitive Church, that flourish'd within the first three hundred years after Christ, faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages. By an Impartial Hand. London: printed for John Wyat & Jonathan Robinson, [no date-]1719. 2 parts in one volume, small octavo (7 ¾ x 4 ¾ in; 197 x 121mm). Pp.  [i-]iv-viii[-x], 1-181[182]; [1-]4-176. Early 19th-century calf, ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.

A very fine copy of the second edition of a work first published in 1691. A work which influenced Wesley: he was apt to quote it in correspondence. ESTC T211076