A Sequel to the Apology on Resigning the Vicarage of Catterick, Yorkshire
London: J. Johnson, 1776. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, mid-19th century cloth, light soil and wear to binding, contents clean, light foxing and toning. xxiv, 508 pp. Lindsey founded the first avowedly Unitarian Church in 1774, at Essex Street in London. Under the influence of Joseph Priestley, with whom he became friendly in 1769, Lindsey found himself entertaining non-Trinitarian views and protested the Anglican Church's Thirty-Nine Articles, advocating that the Church should restore to its parishioners "their undoubted rights as Protestants of interpreting Scripture for themselves." In late 1773 he resigned from the Anglican Church and from his Vicarage, published his Apology, and then began preaching in rooms on Essex Street, the eventual site of the first Unitarian church, even though his conduct as a Dissenter was considered illegal. Very Good. Item #H11007
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