1668 Robert South Ecclesiastical
Policy English Oliver Cromwell + Jasper Mayne
Robert South was a
17th-century English preacher who preached controversial and
defensive sermons. While working as the public orator to Oxford University
during the reign of Charles II, South published several his treatises and
sermons, including one where he attacked Oliver Cromwell and compared him to
Islamic figure Mohammed! This work, ‘Ecclesiastical Policy, the Best Policy’,
was highly controversial due to its extreme criticism of Cromwell. According to
Malik in ‘Anti-Muslim Prejudice’,
“Robert South, eager
to vilify Cromwell, found none other than Mahomet with whom to compare the dead
despot: as Cromwell’s rule had disintegrated, so would Islam, which has ‘begun
to totter already; for Mahomet having promised to come and visit his followers,
and translate them to Paradise after a thousand years, this being expired, many
of the Persians began to doubt and smell the cheat’.”
‘Ecclesiastical
Policy’ was reissued throughout the 1660s including this 1668 Oxford edition
under the title ‘Interest Deposed and Truth Destroyed’.
This tract is also
bound with Jasper Mayne’s 1662 tract “Concio ad academiam Oxoniensem”
Item number: #8438
Price: $550
SOUTH, Robert; MAYNE, Jasper
Interest deposed, and truth restored, or A word in
season delivered in two sermons: the first at St. Maryes in Oxford, on the 24th
of Iuly, 1659. being the time of the assizes: as also of the fears and groans
of the nation in the threatned and expected ruine of the laws, ministery, and
universities. The other preached lately before the honourable Societie of
Lincolns-Inn. By Robert South, Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church.
Oxford: printed by W. Hall, for
George West, anno Dom. 1668.
Details:
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Collation: 2 works
in 1
o ‘Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem’ – Jasper
Mayne
§ [2], 42
§ Londoni, Typis F. Grismond, & prstant
apud R.Royston in Ivie-lane, 1662.
o ‘Interest deposed, and truth restored…’ –
Robert South
§ [12], 33
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Provenance: Modern
Bookplate – Caroli E. Doble
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Language: Latin /
English
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Binding: Leather;
tight & secure
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Size: ~8in X
6.25in (20cm x 16cm)
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Very rare with no other example for
sale worldwide
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