Title: An historical preface to Primitive Christianity reviv'd. With an Appendix Containing An Account of the Author's Prosecution at, and Banishment from the University of Cambridge. By William Whiston, M.A.
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[1] (blank). Signatures: A-G8 H2 A-B8 C4. Calf. Remnants of lettering panels on
spine. </span><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">The five final pages contain
"Proposals for printing by subscription, Mr. Whiston’s Collection"
before the errata list.</span></span></p><p></p>

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<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;color:#212529;">This work is the first part of a 1711-1712 dispute the English
theologian William Whiston (1667-1752) had with Johann Ernest Grabe </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">(see Bib# 4102654-4102657/Fr#
86-89 in this collection)<span style="color:#212529;"> about </span>the
‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels, and ‘Apostolic
Constitutions’, attributed to Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement
I), which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562, see Bib# 4102652/Fr#
84) and De constitutionibus apostolicis (first complete Latin edition, 1563
(Bib# 4102653/Fr# 85). See also Whiston’s St. Clement’s and St. Irenaeus’s
vindication of the apostolical constitutions, from several objections made
against them [...] second edition [with large additions]. London, 1716 (Bib# 4656316/Fr#
1412 in this collection).</span></p><p></p>

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