A preservative against unsettled notions and want of principles in religion
Subtitle: In several discourses upon select subjects ; relating to diversity of opinions, the difficulties of the scriptures, private judgement, prejudice, free-thinking, ecclesiastical authority, creeds, articles, and subscriptions, popular errors, and the encroachments of infidelity, heresy, and schism
By: by Joseph Trapp, M.A. Vicar of Christ Church, London
Contributors: Bowyer, Jonah, active 1702-1722, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
Published: 1722
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Apologetic works; Early works to 1800; Theology; Church of England
Notes: The title page to v.2 varies: 'A preservative against unsettled notions and want of principles in religion. In several discourses upon select subjects; relating to diversity of opinions, the difficulties of the scriptures, mysteries, private judgement, prejudice, free-thinking, sincerity, ecclesiastical authority, the inward and outward means of salvation, the real benefit and dignity and the undeserved hatred and contempt of the clergy, the comparative obligations of them and the laity, as also of the superior and inferior part of mankind, novelty and innovation, faith, practice, and church discipline, fallacious reasonings, popular errors, and the encroachments of infidelity, heresy, and schism. By Joseph Trapp ... '.

Pagination: volume1: [10], xxxvi, [6], 323, [1] pages; volume 2: [4], xxiv, [8], 351, [1] pages.

Signatures: v.1: A⁶ ( -A6), a⁴ ( -a4) a-b⁸ c², B-X⁸ Y²; v.2: a-b⁸ c², B-Z⁸.

The titlepage to volume two has no edition statement.

Title pages enclosed within double line border.

With engraved initials, head- and tail pieces.

Also available on microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. - 1 reel ; 35mm. - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3713, no. 01) [For microfilm ask in Rare Books Room].

English short title catalogue, T104019

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.