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CHUBB ( Thomas). An Enquiry concerning the grounds and reasons, or what those principles are, on wh

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
CHUBB ( Thomas). An Enquiry concerning the grounds and reasons, or what those principles are, on which two of our anniversary solemnities are founded ... (with) the sufficiency of reason in matters of religion further considered ... [bound with:] A Discourse Concerning Reason, with regard to religion and divine revelation ... [and:] Four Tracts ... [and:] Some observations offered to publick consideration. Occasioned by the opposition made to Dr. Rundle's election to the see of Gloucester ... [and:] Two Letters, containing I. An Enquiry concerning church discipline ... [and:] The Equity and Reasonableness of the Divine Conduct, in pardoning sinners upon their repentance, exemplified … Printed for T. Cox, 1732-33-34-35-36-37FIRST EDITIONS, pages 36, 29(bis)-66, (2, ads), with the half-title : 80 : 151, (1, adverts) : (2), xiii, (1), 114, (2, adverts) : 122, (2, adverts) : 111, (1, adverts), 6 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary calf : in nice, fresh state.Chubb (1679-1746), Deist, regarded by Voltaire as one of the most logical of his school. He is also interesting as showing that the rationalism of the intellectual classes had taken considerable hold upon the popular mind.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: [TINDAL ( Matthew )]. The Rights of the Christian Church asserted, against the Romish, and all other priests who claim an independent power over it. With a preface concerning the government of the church of England, as by law establish'd. Part I. The second edition corrected. Printed in the year 1706. ALL PUBLISHED, pages xcii, 416, (10), 8vo, contemporary unlettered calf : a little worn at corners but the binding sound and strong and with some light old marginal waterstaining, but still a very good, unsophisticated copy.An attack on the idea of a national, state-supported church by one of the most prominent exponents of Deism in England. "By far the most contentious of his writings appeared in 1706 : The rights of the Christian church asserted. The enemy he identified was at least as much high-churchmanship as it was Roman Catholicism, and he adopted the apparently moderate tones of a supporter of an Anglican via media in a defence of the Reformation which actually had profound implications for all styles of churchmanship. He opposed the claims for two independent powers subsisting in the same society, the one ecclesiastical, the other magisterial, condemning ‘the Spiritual Babylon’ promoted by high-church contenders for such a separation. He argued that it was in the interests of the clergy to complicate religion, thereby making themselves indispensable in the religious lives of the people : their powers made the protestant call for further reformation impossible, and the interests of their church were declared to be incompatible with those of true religion. ‘From this Conduct of the High-flown Clergy’, he concluded, ‘some have taken the Liberty to compare a High-Church Priest in Politicks to a Monkey in a Glass-shop, where as he can do no good, so he never fails of doing Mischief enough’. He saw in this attitude of clerics a means to defend himself, noting of it that ‘nothing sooner [gives] a Man the Character of an Atheist than being an Enemy to Priestcraft’." - DNB.(2)ENGLISH PRE 1801; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; THEOLOGY; HISTORY; ENGLAND; ; ; ; ; ;