[Harvard University] Woodbridge, Benjamin

The Method of Grace in the Justification of Sinners. Being a Reply to a Book written by Mr. William Eyre of Salisbury.

London: Edmund Paxton, 1656. 8vo, contemporary calf, 359 (2) pp. Front board detached, binding split at center, text block complete and otherwise fine, good condition overall, unrestored. Good. Item #List1612

An uncommon work by Benjamin Woodbridge, the first graduate of Harvard University, written in response to William Eyre, which “promoted a science of divinity through a new relationship between sight and spiritual knowledge.” (Rivett, Sarah. The Science of the Soul in New England, pp. 53). About twenty copies held institutionally per OCLC, the last copy appearing in the trade at auction in 1948.

Price: $1,500.00