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antique book

DEAR READER This is a very rare sermon to find for sale, let alone even rarer to find such a book in superb condition, considering its age being already 360 years old! ——————————————————————— TITLE The Paschal or Lent-Fast, apostolical & perpetual: at first deliver'd in a sermon preached before His Majesty in Lent and since enlarged: wherein the judgment of antiquity is laid down: with an appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the fast of Lent by Peter Gunning. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Gunning (1614–1684) was born at Hoo St Werburgh, in Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Clare College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1633. Having taken orders, he advocated the Royalist cause eloquently from the pulpit. In 1644, during the English Civil War, he retired to Oxford, and held a chaplaincy at New College until the city surrendered to the Parliamentary forces in 1646. Subsequently he was chaplain, first to the royalist Sir Robert Shirley of Eatington (1629–1656), and then at the Exeter House chapel. After the Restoration in 1660 he was installed as a canon of Canterbury Cathedral. In the same year he returned to Cambridge as Master of Corpus Christi, and was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity. He also received the livings of Cottesmore, Rutland, and Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire. In 1661 he became head of St John's College, Cambridge, and was elected Regius Professor of Divinity. While he served as Regius Professor of Divinity he established an Arminian soteriological tradition at Cambridge that was furthered by his successor Joseph Beaumont. He was consecrated bishop of Chichester in 1669, and was translated to the see of Ely in 1674–1675. Holding moderate religious views, he disliked equally Puritanism and Roman Catholicism. (Wikipedia) ——————————————————————— DESCRIPTION First Edition Quarto. One new blank leaf inserted along with one original leaf at the start and end of the book. Paginated. Roman type. Red edging. Title page has lovely woodcut initials and vignettes. The previous owner has added in a later engraving of Gunning to ffe. Very good condition, with some occasional odd spots, brown marks, along with very minimal tears. Bound in original full calf and recently rebacked with the original morrocon label still preserved. There is some loss to the edges of the calf; with the boards being worn also. Overall a very fresh copy! ——————————————————————— COLLATION: COMPLETE PAGINATION [5], 242, 433-542, [4]. SIGNATURES [1] Blank Leaf; Title Page; A-Hh4, Ii1, Aaa-Ooo4, Ppp3; [1] Blank Leaf. *IMPORTANT* •Please search my username or copy paste this exact listing name on Ebay and Etsy (if available on that platform) if you wish to make a purchase there instead. •Pick up is always an option. No returns accepted.