Title: 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.
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. 6 (prelims), pp. 144. Signatures: A6, B-G12. Calf. Spine on 4 bars. Gilded spine title. Red edges. Bookplate and release stamp of Christ Church College, Oxford. Title page surrounded by a ruled border. Head-pieces. Includes errata list at end (page 144).</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: 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. (Bib# 4102905/ Fr# 385 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. First published in Amsterdam, 1867, "Printed for G.S." See 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.), B5774; English Short Title Catalogue Online, R8180.</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_5913098" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>