SOME CONSIDERATIONS HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE RIGHT REVEREND LORD BISHP OF EXETER.; Occasioned by his Lordship’s Sermon Preached before Her Majesty, March 8. 1708. By Benjamin Hoadly, Rector of St. Peters Poor.

London: Bookswellers of London, 1709. 8vo, pp. 16. Removed from a nonce collection. Remnant of earlier leather binding on spine; small wormhole in upper-right corner; early/contemporary inked numeral at bottom of title-page; edges a bit bumped, leaves mildly toned; otherwise sound. This edition, in inferior type, the text starting on the verso of the title, and without publisher's name, is probably a piracy" (Rothschild). Item #42149

Benjamin Hoadly takes on Offspring Blackall, the high-tory Bishop of Exeter, responding to the latter's attack on the doctrines of popular sovereignty and the people's right to resist corrupt or tyrannical authority.

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