A Course of Lectures on the Figurative Language of the Holy Scripture: and the interpretation of it from the scripture itself. Delivered in the Parish Church of Nayland in Suffolk, in the Year 1786: to Which are Added, Four Lectures on the Relation Between the Old and New Testaments, as it is set Forth in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Also, A Single Lecture on the Natural Evidences of Christianity.
By WILLIAM JONES, M.A. F.R.S
First Edition. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J.F. and C. Rivington. St Paul’s Church-yard; G.G.J. and J. Robinson; Pater-noster Row; H. Gardner, in the Strand; W. Keymer, Colchester; and W. Stanes, Chelmsford. 1787. Very good full calf leather binding, gilt titling and decoration to spine. Some cracks to joints but holding well. Tight binding, clean unarmed text has foxing throughout. 8vo, pencil signature to verso of last page, 466 pages.
The 18th-century natural philosopher, theologian, and Anglican cleric William Jones of Nayland (1726-1800) was revered as a pre-eminent theological authority in the first half of the 19th century. Many early 19th-century Anglicans lauded his first work, The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity (1756), as the definitive refutation of Antitrinitarianism. Jones’s approach shows how a conventionally Anglican perspective has the potential to lead people to an intellectually robust appreciation of who God is, and what is more, it opens a new way of seeing the world. It boasts nothing less than the ability to reveal the entire world as it truly is, under God.
He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford. There a taste for music, as well as a similarity of character, led to his close intimacy with George Horne, later bishop of Norwich, whom he induced to study Hutchinsonian doctrines.
After obtaining his bachelor's degree at University College, Oxford in 1749, Jones held various preferments (Vicar of Bethersden, Kent (1764); Rector of Pluckley, Kent (1765)) . In 1777 he obtained the perpetual curacy of Nayland, Suffolk, and on Horne's appointment to Norwich became his chaplain, afterwards writing his life. His vicarage became the centre of a High Church coterie, and Jones himself was a link between the non-jurors and the Oxford Movement. He could write intelligibly on abstruse topics.
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A Course of Lectures on the Figurative Language of the Holy Scripture: and the interpretation of it from the scripture itself. Delivered in the Parish Church of Nayland in Suffolk, in the Year 1786: to Which are Added, Four Lectures on the Relation Between the Old and New Testaments, as it is set Forth in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Also, A Single Lecture on the Natural Evidences of Christianity.
By WILLIAM JONES, M.A. F.R.S
First Edition. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J.F. and C. Rivington. St Paul’s Church-yard; G.G.J. and J. Robinson; Pater-noster Row; H. Gardner, in the Strand; W. Keymer, Colchester; and W. Stanes, Chelmsford. 1787. Very good full calf leather binding, gilt titling and decoration to spine. Some cracks to joints but holding well. Tight binding, clean unarmed text has foxing throughout. 8vo, pencil signature to verso of last page, 466 pages.
The 18th-century natural philosopher, theologian, and Anglican cleric William Jones of Nayland (1726-1800) was revered as a pre-eminent theological authority in the first half of the 19th century. Many early 19th-century Anglicans lauded his first work, The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity (1756), as the definitive refutation of Antitrinitarianism. Jones’s approach shows how a conventionally Anglican perspective has the potential to lead people to an intellectually robust appreciation of who God is, and what is more, it opens a new way of seeing the world. It boasts nothing less than the ability to reveal the entire world as it truly is, under God.
He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford. There a taste for music, as well as a similarity of character, led to his close intimacy with George Horne, later bishop of Norwich, whom he induced to study Hutchinsonian doctrines.
After obtaining his bachelor's degree at University College, Oxford in 1749, Jones held various preferments (Vicar of Bethersden, Kent (1764); Rector of Pluckley, Kent (1765)) . In 1777 he obtained the perpetual curacy of Nayland, Suffolk, and on Horne's appointment to Norwich became his chaplain, afterwards writing his life. His vicarage became the centre of a High Church coterie, and Jones himself was a link between the non-jurors and the Oxford Movement. He could write intelligibly on abstruse topics.
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