1846 TREATISE OF THE CROSS, AN ANSWER by JAMES CALFHILL

MDCCCXLVI.

(1846)

Above is the complete title page.

First Parker Society edition; originally published in 1565.

BIOGRAPHY:

James Calfhill, or Caufield (1529-1570), English Anglican Calvinist theologian, priest, clergyman, archdeacon, bishop, canon, writer, poet, Oxford professor of Divinity, sub-dean of Corpus Christi College.

John Martiall (1534-1597), English Roman Catholic theologian, priest, writer, controversialist, Bachelor at Law, wrote Treatise of the Cross, a reply to Calfhill’s Answer to the treatise, and The Book of the Cross.

Richard Gibbings (1813-1888), English Anglican theologian, preacher, rector, writer, edited several works for the Parker Society including Stapleton’s Fortress Overthrown, and A Rejoinder to Martiall’s Reply.

The Parker Society — founded in 1840 “for the publication of the works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church.”

The Society’s publications countered the Oxford Movement and Tractarians, quoting the early fathers and first reformers of the English Church on disputed points of doctrine.

CONTENTS:

Half-title

Parker titles

Original title

Biographical Notices of Calfhill and Martiall

Supplemental Observations

To John Martiall

The Preface to the Readers

Answer to the Treatise of the Cross

A Table, by order of the Articles, briefly containing the effect of the whole book

Index

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

9” x 5.50” x 1.25”

1 lb 8 ounces

430 pages

xii + 418

Black clothbound with decorative blind stamped borders on boards that are well attached, rubbed and worn at edges; front board has large gilt emblem of the Parker Society. Backstrip is chipped at top, with gilt title: Calfhill’s Answer to Martiall. Binding is tight, no loose, missing, bent or torn pages; a few minor fore-corner creases. Leaves have no foxing, fading or offset; endpapers are light yellow.

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This book is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne, antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.