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A CIVIL MAGISTRATE [L'ESTRANGE, Hamon]. A Legacy to the World: or, essays to promote Practical Christianity.

London. Printed by J. and W. Oliver for the Author, 1762. First edition.
8vo. ix, [2], 12-72pp. Disbound. Occasional dust-soiling to margins.
A rare survival of the first edition of legal and religious writer Hamon L'Estrange's (bap. 1674, d. 1767) attempt to promote practical Christianity. The second edition of the work also contained a pamphlet entitled 'Justification by faith alone' by John Berridge (1767).

ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and two further copies in North America (New York Historical Society and The Moravian Archives).
ESTC T209982.
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 21449