COTTON JOHN The Bloudy Tenent Washed and Made White in the B

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COTTON, JOHN. The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear, paper number label on backstrip; some dampstaining and edge soiling, a few short closed tears, rear hinge split, lacking the 4 leaves in gathering R; John Carter Brown bookplate on front pastedown with release stamp. (JCB) London, 1647

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The third salvo in Cotton's pamphlet war with Roger Williams, responding to Williams's argument for religious toleration, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. Includes, as usual, Cotton's appendix "A Reply to Mr. Williams his Examination," which describes the numerous conflicts of the Rhode Island founder with church and civil authorities. Church 479; European Americana 64756; JCB II:353; Sabin 17045.