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SMITH ( Lawrence ). The evidence of things not seen : or, the immortality of the human soul

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SMITH ( Lawrence ). The evidence of things not seen : or, the immortality of the human soul

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
SMITH ( Lawrence ). The evidence of things not seen : or, the immortality of the human soul, and the separate condition thereof in the other world, asserted and made man-ifest : in opposition to the spreading scepticism and infidelity of the age. In two discourses : the first the second on 2 Epist. Tim. Chap. I. ver. 10. on the parable of Dives and Lazarus, St. Luke XVI. from the 19th Verse to the end of the chapter. London, Printed for Thomas Speed, over against Jonathan's Coff-House, in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, 1701FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 58, without the advert leaf at end, 4to, recent cloth : with a small, old ink-stain on the final two leaves, otherwise a very good copy. The uncommon first edition of a work greatly expanded in two further editions (1703 and 1706) : ESTC locates only 7 copies: BRI, L, C, Lmh, Oo / NcD, CaQMM. Smith (1656-1728) rector of South-Warmborough, Hampshie here replies to Wm Coward's work Second Thoughts concerning Human Soul (1702), ”Relying on Overton's mortalism, Glisson's vitalism, Hobbes's materialism, and Locke's speculation on ‘thinking matter’, Coward assumed that the concept of the immortality of the soul is a ‘heathenish invention’ welcomed by the first Christian fathers and then promoted by the Roman church. He states that life and soul are the same thing, consisting in a sort of power inherent in the matter of the human body and as such destined to propagate and to die together with it. Using scriptural and rational arguments he assumes that human beings are a kind of mortal thinking matter who receive immortality from God only after the final resurrection of the dead … Coward was attacked by many writers who accused him of materialism and atheism. Between 1702 and 1703 at least seven controversialists, including John Turner, John Broughton, François Menard, and William Nichols, published polemics against Coward's Second Thoughts. He replied with Farther Thoughts Concerning Human Soul (1703) and The Grand Essay, or, A Vindication of Reason, and Religion, Against Impostures of Philosophy (1704); the latter was criticized even by Toland, Collins, and Locke. On 10 March 1704 a complaint was made in the House of Commons about Second Thoughts and The Grand Essay. A committee was appointed to examine both, and on 17 March 1704 Coward was called to the bar … The House resolved that the books contained offensive doctrines and ordered them to be burnt by the common hangman. The sentence increased the notoriety of Coward's books. In the same year he published another edition of Second Thoughts and the medical work Remediorum medicinalium tabula generalis. In 1705 he devoted himself to poetry, publishing Abramideis, a heroic poem in Miltonic style … During the same year he published Ophthalmiatria, a medical work in which he ridicules the Cartesian notion of an immaterial soul residing in the pineal gland. From a letter of his, dated 26 May 1706 and addressed to his friend Sir Hans Sloane, it appears that Sloane corrected the proofs and suggested that Coward should alter his dangerous opinions about the soul. About 1707 Coward published The Just Scrutiny, joining the controversy on the mortality of the soul aroused by Dodwell's An Epistolary Discourse (1706). Confuted at home by many pamphleteers and ridiculed by Swift, Coward became well known in Germany, the Netherlands, and France where some of his works were reviewed in a number of periodical journals, and his name was often mentioned in catalogues of heretics and polemical works.- ODNB without mention of Smith contribution to the debate.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) CARPENTER ( Richard ). The Conscionable Christian : or the indevour of Saint Paul, to have and discharge a good conscience alwayes towards God, and men : laid open and applyed in three sermons. Preached before the Honourable Judges of the Circuit, at their severall assises, holden in Chard and Taunton, for the County of Somerset, 1620. Imprinted by F. K[ingston]. for John Bartlet, 1623. FIRST (?ONLY) COLLECTED EDITION, pp (12), 119, 4to, recent paper wrapper : with some very light staining, but still a very good copy, complete with the initial blank leaf.STC 4681. Carpenter (1575-1627), native of Cornwall. His literary productions were confined to theology, though he did contribute some verses to `Funebre Officium in memoriam Elizabethae Angliae reginae' of the university of Oxford, 1603, and to the collection `Pietas erga Jacobum Angliae regem' with which that body in the same year welcomed the new king.(2)ENGLISH PRE 1801; RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; STC; THEOLOGY; LAW; ; ; ; ; ;