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John Smith
Henry Griffin Williams
March 2014
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Paperback
9781107624047
£37.99
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Paperback

    Originally published in 1859, as the fourth edition of a 1660 original, this book contains the text of the Select Discourses of the theologian John Smith. Smith covers a variety of religious topics in these essays, including superstition, atheism and the existence and nature of God. The text is edited by Henry Griffin Williams, and includes a biography of Smith as read at his funeral by Symon Patrick, later Bishop of Ely. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Smith's writings.

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    March 2014
    Paperback
    9781107624047
    578 pages
    254 × 178 × 30 mm
    0.99kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. On the true way or method of attaining divine knowledge
    • 2. On superstition
    • 3. On atheism
    • 4. On the immortality of the soul
    • 5. On the existence and nature of God
    • 6. On prophecy
    • 7. On legal and evangelical righteousness
    • 8. On the shortness of a pharisaical righteousness
    • 9. Excellency and nobleness of true religion
    • 10. On a Christian's conflicts with, and conquests over, Satan.
      Author
    • John Smith
    • Revised by
    • Henry Griffin Williams