A Collection of Tracts, on Various Subjects

  • Half-Leather
  • London: T. Cox, 1730
By Chubb, Thomas
London: T. Cox, 1730. First Thus. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus. Nicely rebound by Green Dragon Bindery with leather spine, morocco label, gilt titles and rules, marbled paper over boards, new end sheets. Binding edge of about a third of the text pages lightly stained, embossed ownership stamps on title page and rear endpaper. 1730 Half-Leather. 474 pp. 4to. A collection of tracts by the Deist whose views on free will and determinism as expressed in this work were criticized by Jonathan Edwards in his 1754 Freedom of the Will. Some of the matters discussed in these tracts include: property; the justice of God; religious faith; prayer; the story of Abraham and Isaac; God's moral character; persecution; human nature; Quakers; natural liberty; Christian salvation; virtue and vice; civil government.

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