The Theological Works of The Most Pious and Learned Henry More, D.D. Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. Containing An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; An Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity. In Two Parts; A Prophetical Exposition of The Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia; A Discourse of the Grounds of Faith in Points of Religion; An Antidote against Idolatry; An Appendix to the Antidote against Idolatry. To Which are adjoin'd, some Divine Hymns. According to the Author's Improvements in his Latin Edition.

The Theological Works of The Most Pious and Learned Henry More, D.D. Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. Containing An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; An Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity. In Two Parts; A Prophetical Exposition of The Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia; A Discourse of the Grounds of Faith in Points of Religion; An Antidote against Idolatry; An Appendix to the Antidote against Idolatry. To Which are adjoin'd, some Divine Hymns. According to the Author's Improvements in his Latin Edition.

Author: More, Henry

Folio (9" x 14.25") 1705-1708. More, Henry. London: Joseph Downing. Rebound in quarter brown leather with single gilt rule to leather edges over marbled boards. Spine with six gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt title to fancy gilt rule bordered red leather to second compartment, a large centered gilt floral device to each other compartment, gilt year at foot, double gilt rule to head and foot of spine. All edges slightly speckled red. Renewed endpapers. A beautiful large folio with an attractive spine.

From Wiki: MORE, HENRY (1614–1687), theologian, born at Grantham in 1614, was son of 'Alexander More, esq., a gentleman of fair estate and fortune.' Both his parents were strong Calvinists, and from his childhood he took a deep interest in questions of theology, but could never accept the Calvinistic system. He appears to have been committed by his father to the care of his uncle, who threatened to flog him 'for his immature forwardness in philosophising concerning the mysteries of necessity and free- will.' At fourteen he was sent to 'Eton School … for the perfecting of the Greek and Latin tongue.' He made great progress in his studies, and in 1631 was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge, about the time when John Milton was leaving it. In 1635 he graduated B.A., and for three or four years was still unsettled in regard to religion. But in 1639 he proceeded M.A., and was elected fellow of his college; and about the same time he received holy orders. Thenceforth he lived almost entirely within the walls of Christ's College, except when he went to stay with his 'heroine pupil ' (as his biographer terms her), Anne, viscountess Conway [[[q. v.]]], at her country seat of Ragley in Warwickshire, where his great pleasure was to wander among the woods and glades. He won a high reputation both for saintliness and for intellectual power; but he refused all preferment, successively declining the mastership of his college (1654), the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, with the deanery of St. Patrick's, and two bishoprics. Intensely loyal to the king, both during the civil wars and after the Restoration, he was once persuaded to make a journey to Whitehall to kiss his majesty's hands; but when he heard by the way that this would be the prelude to a bishopric he at once turned back. In 1676 he was persuaded by the lord chancellor, the Earl of Nottingham, to accept a prebend at Gloucester, but he resigned it immediately in favour of his friend Dr. Fowler, afterwards bishop of the diocese. He declined advancement simply 'from a pure love of contemplation and solitude, and because he thought he could do the church of God greater service in a private than in a public station.' He had many pupils at Christ's; he loved music, and used to play on the theorbo; he enjoyed a game at bowls, and still more a conversation with intimate friends, who listened to him as to an oracle; and he was so kind to the poor that it is said 'his very chamber-door was a hospital for the needy.' He shrank from bitter theological and political disputes; but he had the courage of his opinions, which were very definite. He made no secret of his attachment to the church of England at a time when it was dangerous to avow such sentiments; and he did not hesitate to use the church liturgy both in public and private when it was a crime to do so.

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