1714 - John Tillotson - Works - Sermons + Rule of Faith - Large Leather Volume

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This large leather volume is The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself, and Now Collected into One Volume. To which is Added, An Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters. It is a stated seventh edition. It was published in London in 1714. There is a frontis portrait of Tillotson. Pagination is as follows: [xxii], 755, [xix]. Cover dimensions are approximately 13 inches tall by 8 inches wide, with a thickness of 2.25 inches. The cover extremities are worn. The leather is scuffed. The joints are worn and somewhat tender with some loss at and near the joints. The spine label says 'VOL I', but it is complete; while there are later expansions to Tillotson's works, this was what was available at the time of publication. The pages are well preserved with some browning. Overall condition is good.Here is an extract from the Wikipedia page on Tillotson:John Tillotson (October 1630 - 22 November 1694) was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby , Yorkshire. Little is known of his early youth; he studied at Colne Grammar School, before entering as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1647. His tutor was David Clarkson and he graduated in 1650, being made a fellow of his college in 1651.In 1656 Tillotson became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux , attorney-general to Oliver Cromwell . About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by Thomas Sydserf , a Scottish bishop. Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661, and remained identified with the Presbyterians until the passing of the Act of Uniformity 1662 . Shortly afterwards he became curate of Cheshunt , Herts, and in June 1663, rector of Kedington , Suffolk.He now devoted himself to an exact study of biblical and patristic Catholic writers, especially Basil and Chrysostom . The result of this reading, and of the influence of John Wilkins , Master of Trinity College, Cambridge , was seen in the general tone of his preaching, which was practical rather than theological, concerned with issues of personal morality instead of theoretical doctrine. This plain style of preaching is reflective of the late 17th century, when the integration of reason into Protestant theology came to be seen as one of its finest attributes against Roman Catholicism. Tillotson himself was personally tolerant enough towards Roman Catholics, remarking in a famous sermon that while Popery was "gross superstition", yet "Papists, I doubt not, are made like other men."He was a man of the world as well as a divine, and in his sermons he exhibited a tact which enabled him at once to win the ear of his audience. In 1664 he became preacher at Lincoln's Inn . The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of Oliver Cromwell ; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry (where he was later buried). Tillotson employed his controversial weapons with some skill against atheism and Roman Catholicism. In 1663 he published a characteristic sermon on "The Wisdom of being Religious," and in 1666 replied to John Sergeant 's Sure Footing in Christianity by a pamphlet on the "Rule of Faith." The same year he received the degree of D.D.In 1670 he became prebendary and in 1672 dean of Canterbury . That latter year he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1675 he edited John Wilkins 'sPrinciples of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of it, and in 1682 his Sermons. Along with Burnet , Tillotson attended William Russell, Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683. In 1684, he wrote a Discourse against Transubstantiation . He afterwards enjoyed the friendship of Lady Russell, and it was partly through her that he obtained so much influence with Princess Anne , who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on William of Orange . ... read more

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