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Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729. [Commonplace book]

Title: [Commonplace book] [17--?]

Manuscript commonplace book compiled during the late-17th and the 18th centuries, containing poetry, religious works, historical works, mathematical tables, geographical information, scientific facts and vocabulary words. The volume contains several different hands and there appear to have been perhaps 3 central compilers of the works excerpted therein. Many pages are crowded with text written in the margins and around passages entered at earlier dates. There are no signs as to the identities of the compilers, though a 20th century bookseller's description in the front of the volume mentions that it was purchased from a family library in Wiltshire.

ArchivalResource: [224] p., bound ; 32 cm.

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Brainerd's commentary on apostolic succession, 1800s.

Title: Brainerd's commentary on apostolic succession, 1800s.

Collection comprises a volume (approx. 248 pgs, including several pgs. laid-in) containing an nineteenth-century commentary primarily on apostolic succession, with discussions of the divine right of clergy and lay ministry. The apologist may have been the owner of the volume, who is identified as "Mr. Brainerd, Lyme, Ct." This may possibly indicate David Smith Brainerd (1812-1875), before his installation as pastor of the Old Lyme (Conn.) Congregational Church, in 1841. In addition to extensive biblical passages, the author references commentaries by Edward Stillingfleet, Daniel Whitby, William Cave, Philip Doddridge, and John Cosin, and provides a history of Christianity from the apostolic age forward.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756674476 View