1757 EARLY Colonial Americana Wigglesworth HARVARD Boston Salem Witchcraft

1757 EARLY Colonial Americana Wigglesworth HARVARD Boston Salem Witchcraft

Edward Wigglesworth was an 18^th-century American clergyman who is better known for being president of Harvard University in the 1780-81. However, prior to his positions at Harvard, Wigglesworth wrote numerous tracts including one that vehemently attacked Catholicism. In this short essay, “Thoughts upon the Spirit of Infallibility claimed by the Church of Rome”, Wigglesworth notes the difficulties in the disputes over papal and spirit infallibility.

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WIGGLESWORTH, Edward

Some thoughts upon the spirit of infallibility claimed by the Church of Rome

Boston, New-England: J. Draper, 1757. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 31, [1]
• Provenance: Author’s inscription – “A gift of the Rev Author… his son… [Giv’n]”
  • Edward Michael Wigglesworth (c.1691–1765) was a clergyman, teacher and theologian in Colonial America. The Wigglesworth family had a generational impact on religion in colonial America, with his father, Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) also being a Puritan minister and poet, as well as a contemporary of Cotton and Increase Mather; he was also part of a group of ministers who met often in the Harvard library and were solicited for advice regarding witchcraft doctrine during the period of the Salem Witch Trials. Edward Michael Wigglesworth’s son, Edward Wigglesworth (1732-1794) would follow in his father’s footsteps, becoming a Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard, and later the university’s president from 1780-1781.
• Language: English
• Binding: Unbound
• Size: ~8.25in X 5in (21cm x 13cm)
• Very rare

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