8vo. 32, 216pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split. Internally clean and crisp.

The second, posthumously published, edition of natural philosopher and headmaster Thomas Burnet's (c. 1635-1715) rejection of Calvinist notions of original sin that simultaneously attacks the Catholic theology of the sacraments.