EDWARDS JONATHAN A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Moder

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EDWARDS, JONATHAN. A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; front free endpaper detached and incomplete, a few early marginalia, some dampstaining in rear of volume, lacks the errata slip noted on the Streeter copy, scattered foxing and browning. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1754

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first edition of edwards's most important work of the great awakening. "The publication in 1754 of A Careful and Strict Enquiry . . . revealed him as the first great philosophic intelligence in American history"--DAB. Evans 7187; Grolier Hundred 11; Sabin 21930; Streeter sale 7:4164.