1668 Robert South Ecclesiastical Policy English Oliver Cromwell + Jasper Mayne

1668 Robert South Ecclesiastical Policy English Oliver Cromwell + Jasper Mayne

Robert South was a 17^th-century English preacher who preached controversial and defensive sermons. While working as the public orator to Oxford University during the reign of Charles II, South published several his treatises and sermons, including one where he attacked Oliver Cromwell and compared him to Islamic figure Mohammed! This work, ‘Ecclesiastical Policy, the Best Policy’, was highly controversial due to its extreme criticism of Cromwell. According to Malik in ‘Anti-Muslim Prejudice’,

“Robert South, eager to vilify Cromwell, found none other than Mahomet with whom to compare the dead despot: as Cromwell’s rule had disintegrated, so would Islam, which has ‘begun to totter already; for Mahomet having promised to come and visit his followers, and translate them to Paradise after a thousand years, this being expired, many of the Persians began to doubt and smell the cheat’.”

‘Ecclesiastical Policy’ was reissued throughout the 1660s including this 1668 Oxford edition under the title ‘Interest Deposed and Truth Destroyed’.

This tract is also bound with Jasper Mayne’s 1662 tract “Concio ad academiam Oxoniensem”

Item number: #8438

Price: $550

SOUTH, Robert; MAYNE, Jasper

Interest deposed, and truth restored, or A word in season delivered in two sermons: the first at St. Maryes in Oxford, on the 24th of Iuly, 1659. being the time of the assizes: as also of the fears and groans of the nation in the threatned and expected ruine of the laws, ministery, and universities. The other preached lately before the honourable Societie of Lincolns-Inn. By Robert South, Master of Arts, and student of Christ-Church.

Oxford: printed by W. Hall, for George West, anno Dom. 1668.

Details:

• Collation: 2 works in 1

o   ‘Concio ad Academiam Oxoniensem’ – Jasper Mayne

• [2], 42
• Londoni, Typis F. Grismond, & prstant apud R.Royston in Ivie-lane, 1662.

o   ‘Interest deposed, and truth restored…’ – Robert South

• [12], 33
• Provenance: Modern Bookplate – Caroli E. Doble
• Language: Latin / English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~8in X 6.25in (20cm x 16cm)
• Very rare with no other example for sale worldwide

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