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[MANNING ( Robert )]. A plain and rational account of the Catholick faith.

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[MANNING ( Robert )].  A plain and rational account of the Catholick faith.

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[MANNING ( Robert )]. A plain and rational account of the Catholick faith. With a preface and appendix in vindication of Catholick morals from old calomnies revived and colleted in a scurrilous libel entituled A Protestant's Resolution, &c. Second edition revised and corrected. Printed at Rouen [i.e.secretely at London], Ann. 1721Pages xxiii, (1, blank), 213, (3), 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy. First published in 1720 as “Modern Controversy”: this second edition has a preface explaining the re-editing. A third, apparently unchanged, edition followed, also in 1721. This second edition seems to be the scarcest of the three, with ESTC locating nine copies, only one of which is in the USA (Folger). Manning (d. 1731), born in Amsterdam of an English father and a Dutch mother, was educated in the English College at Douay, where for some time he was professor of humanity and philosophy. He was later sent to the English mission, where he composed various controversial treatises, which, says Dodd, were "much esteemed by the learned on account of their easy flowing style".ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) BRETT ( Thomas ). Tradition necessary to explain and interpret the Holy Scriptures. With a postscript … and a preface, containing some remarks on Mr. Toland's Nazarenus. Printed for James Bettenham, 1718. FIRST EDITION, pp (2), xxiii, (7), 198, (2, adverts), 8vo, recent wrapper : very good copy. Brett and Henry Gandy were consecrated as bishops by Jeremy Collier, Nathaniel Spinckes, and Samuel Hawes on 25 January 1716. That year the nonjurors began discussions with the Greek bishop of Thebes, Arsenius, then in London, concerning a concordat with the Eastern church. The bishops prepared a document, which they sent with Arsenius to the Russian tsar, Peter the Great, and by him to the Eastern patriarchs. The discussions continued until Peter's death in 1725. Brett also joined Collier in proposing a return to the first liturgy of Edward VI (1549), which they deemed closer to the primitive liturgies. He defended his position in his Tradition Necessary to Explain and Interpret the Holy Scriptures (1718). Brett and Thomas Deacon then created a new liturgy in accordance with their principles. This led to a schism within the nonjuror church over the restoration of four usages : the oblation, invocation of the Holy Spirit, prayers for the dead, and the mixed chalice. After the death of Jeremy Collier in 1726, Brett became the primus for the usager party. In that capacity he later sought to heal the schism ; with the help of nonusager bishop George Smith of Durham, he drew up a concordat that was signed in April and May 1732, thus ending the schism, though a significant number on both sides continued to maintain their separation (ODNB).(2)ENGLISH PRE 1801; ROUEN PRINTED; RELIGION; CATHOLICISM; RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY; THEOLOGY; LITURGY; ; ; ; ;