WILKINS, John, Bishop of Chester.

Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion: two books ... To which is added, a sermon preached at his funerals, by William Lloyd, D.D. Dean of Bangor, and chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty.

London, A. Maxwell for T. Basset, H. Brome, and R. Chiswell, 1675. 8vo, pp. [xviii], 410, [2] blank, [ii], 55, [1] blank; with an engraved portrait frontispiece and separate title-page for Lloyd’s Sermon; ink ownership inscriptions to the front pastedown; a good copy in contemporary full calf, worn at extremities, rebacked. First edition, posthumously published. Wilkins (1614–1672) was a leading Latitudinarian, and the present work presents ideas which anticipate those of Joseph Butler in Analogy of Religion (1736). Wilkins, a polymath mathematician, was a founding member of the Royal Society. His Latitudinarian principles, ostensibly derived from his study of Plato while at Oxford, made him a popular Bishop, the see of Chester containing many dissenters and other groups on the edge of the Restoration Anglican church. This was his final work, the posthumous publication of which was overseen by John Tillotson (1630–1694), his step son-in-law and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691, another prominent Latitudinarian. Appended to Wilkins’ text is the sermon preached at his funeral by William Lloyd (1627–1717).Wing W 2294.

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