Reflections on Mr. Varillas's History Of the Revolutions that have happened in Europe in matters of Religion. And more particularly on his Ninth Book that relates to England. By G. Burnet, D.D.
Publisher: Amsterdam
Published: 1686
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. ff. [3] (blank), pp. 96. Signatures: A-D¹². Calf. Spine on 4 bars. Gilded spine title. Red edges. Bookplate and release stamp of Christ Church College, Oxford.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bound with two related works by Burnet accusing the prolific popular historian Antoine Varillas Varillas of deliberate forgery: A Defence Of The Reflections On the Ninth Book of the First Volum [sic] Of Mr. Varillas's History of Heresies. Being a Reply to his Answer. By G. Burnet, D.D. (Amsterdam, Printed by J. S., 1687, see Bib# 5913098/Fr# 386 in this collection); A Continuation of Reflections on Mr. Varillas’s History of Heresies. Particularly on that which Relates to English Affairs In this Third and Fourth Tomes. By G. Burnett, D.D. (Amsterdam, Printed by J. S., 1687, see Bib# 4102907/Bib# 387).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bishop Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) firmly met and denounced Varillas’s propaganda war against England’s ‘heretical’ Reformation. See also D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), B5852a. Originally published separately, in Amsterdam, 1686, by P. Savouret; cf. D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), B5852 for the first edition.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102905" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>