A SECOND ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE EPISCOPAL SEPARATION IN NEW-ENGLAND. OCCASIONED BY THE EXCEPTIONS MADE TO THE FORMER, BY DR. JOHNSON, MR. WETMORE, MR. BEACH, AND MR. CANER. TO WHICH IS ADDED, BY WAY OF APPENDIX, A LETTER FROM MR. DICKINSON IN ANSWER TO SOME THINGS MR. WETMORE HAS CHARGED HIM WITH.

Boston: D. Fowle, 1751. 172, [2], lacking the half title. Light blindstamp to first two leaves, disbound. A small blank corner chip to title, last leaf margins repaired [affecting a couple of numbers in the Table of Contents]. Scattered spotting. Good+.

Hobart was pastor for many years of a Congregational church in Fairfield, Connecticut, and an active participant in the struggle to thwart the establishment of the Episcopal religion in the colonies.
Jenkins called this pamphlet a "keystone volume in the history of the Episcopal Church in America, with many documents and reports as appended matter." Sabin, quoting Stevens, says it is "perhaps more suggestive than any other one volume for the materials of the historian, who contemplates a history of the Establishment of Episcopacy, or the Church of England in New-England."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 6693. Sabin 32311. II Jenkins 131. Item #31003

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