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[James Jurin], intituled, Geometry no friend to infidelity, or a defence of Sir Isaac Newton, and the British mathematicians. Also an appendix concerning Mr. Walton's Vindication of the principles of fluxions against the objections contained in the Analyst. Wherein it is attempted to put this controversy in such a light as that every reader may be able to judge thereof. By the author of The minute philosopher. [George BERKELEY, D.D.] London: MDCCXXXV. Octavo. Pp. 71.* [William's Cat., ii. 7.]

DEFENCE (a) of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. By a member of Parliament. [Treysac de VERGY.]

London: 1770. Octavo. [Crit. Rev., xxx. 239.]

DEFENCE (a) of ignorance. By the author of "How to make home unhealthy." [Henry MORLEY.]

London 1851. Octavo.* [Brit. Mus.]

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DEFENCE (a) of infant baptism: embodying replies to many of the leading arguments of the late Dr. Carson, Rev. Alex. Campbell, and the Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel. By the author of "A catechism on the nature and design, subjects, and mode of Christian baptism." [Archibald GARDNER.]

Paisley. 1851. Octavo. Pp. 143.* Prefatory note signed A. G. Appeared originally in the Scottish Presbyterian.

DEFENCE (a) of joint stock banks and country issues. By the author of Money and its vicissitudes in value,' 'Essays on the formation of opinions,' &c. &c. [Samuel BAILEY.] London 1840. Octavo. : Pol. Econ., p. 183.]

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DEFENCE (a) of Mr. Hutchinson's plan: being an answer to the Modest apology, &c. In a letter to the country-clergyman. [By Rev. Julius BATE.]

London: 1748. Octavo. Pp. 112.* [Podl.] DEFENCE (a) of Mr. Kenrick's Review of Dr. Johnson's Shakspeare; containing a number of curious and ludicrous anecdotes of literary biography. By a friend. [William KENRICK, D.D.] London: 1766. Octavo. [Chalmers, Biog. Dict. Wilson, Shaksperiana, 43.] DEFENCE (a) of Mr. Locke's Essay of human understanding, wherein its principles, with reference to morality, revealed religion, and the immortality of the soul are considered and justified: in answer to some remarks on that Essay. [By Mrs. Catherine COCKBURN.]

First printed in the year 1702. Octavo.* Ascribed to Thomas Burnet, LL.D. DEFENCE of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity; in answer to the first part of a late essay on that subject. [By Edmund LAW, Bishop of Carlisle.]

Cambridge: M,DCC, LXIX. Octavo.* [Bodl.] DEFENCE (a) of Mr. Maccartney. By a friend. [John OLDMIXON.]

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London 1812. Octavo. [Brit. Crit., xli. 198.]

DEFENCE (a) of Mr. Rousseau, against the aspersions of Mr. Hume, Mons. Voltaire, and their associates. [By Edward Burnaby GREEN.]

London, MDCCLXVI. Octavo.* [Dyce Cat., i. 351.]

DEFENCE (a) of national churches: and particularly of the national constitution of the Church of Scotland, and the conduct of our reforming ancestors, against the cavils of Independents. With a confutation of Independency, and several new opinions vented in

some late pamphlets [by Glass] intituled, A narrative of the rise and progress, &c. An explication of a proposition, &c. A letter from a lover of Zion, &c. By a minister of the Church of Scotland. [John WILLISON.]

Edinburgh, 1719. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] DEFENCE (a) of our arguments against

kneeling in the act of receiving the sacramentall elements of bread and wine impugned by Mr. Michelsone. [By David CALDERWOOD.] Imprinted Anno.

M DC XX. Octavo. Pp.

75. [Adv. Lib.] DEFENCE (a) of our present happy establishment and the administration vindicated from the falshood and malice of several late treasonable libels, viz. "Cato's Letters," in the London Journal, and "The historical account of the advantages of the Hanover succession," &c. [By M. TINDAL?]

London: 1722. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] DEFENCE (a) of Palæ-oromaica against the strictures made on that work by the Bishop of St David's; the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, A.M., prebendary of York, &c.; the British Critic; also by the Rev. W. G. Broughton, M.A., and by Dr Falconer. [By Dr John BLACK of Edinburgh.]

London 1824. Octavo. [W]

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marriages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, and by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the church. Which lawes and canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament, and so abrogated by the conuocation in their Sinode by their subscriptions. Herewith is expressed, what moderations and dispensations haue been vsed heretofore in the same cause, and other like, the canons of the churche standying in full force, whereby is proued, these constitutions to be but positiue lawes of man temporall. [By Matthew PARKER, Archbishop of Canterbury.] Imprinted at London by Richarde Jugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie. Quarto. 359 fol. Table, pp. 8. Contents, preface, and corrections, pp. 10. [Bodl.]

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DEFENCE of religious establishments, in a dialogue between Micaiah TooGood and Peter Utility, with an extract from the theological lectures of the late Dr. Hey. By Quid-pro-quo. [Charles John SMYTH, M.A.] Norwich. N. d. Octavo.* [Bodl.】

DEFENCE (a) of revelation in general, and the gospel in particular; in answer to the objections advanced in a late book, entitled, The morality of the New Testament digested under various heads, &c. &c. and subscribed, A rational christian. [By William BELL, D.D., prebendary of Westminster.] 1765. Octavo. [Watt, Bib. Brit.] DEFENCE (a) of Sir Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and misrepresentations of Algernon Sidney, Esq; in a paper delivered by him to the Sheriffs upon the scaffold on TowerHill, on Fryday December the 7th 1683. before his execution there. [By Edmund BOHUN.] London, 1684.

Folio.*

DEFENCE (a) of Some considerations concerning the Trinity, &c. in answer to the reflections made upon them, in a late pamphlet, entituled, An essay concerning the use of reason, &c. in a letter to the author. [By Francis GASTRELL.]

London: 1707. Octavo.* [Aberdeen Lib.]

DEFENCE (a) of subscription to the xxxix articles, as it is required in the university of Oxford. [By Lewis BAGOT.]

1772. [Watt, Bib. Brit.]

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DEFENCE (a) of the antient historians: with a particular application of it to the history of Ireland. [By Francis HUTCHINSON, D.D.]

Dublin 1734. Octavo. Pp. xv. 270.* In the Advocates' Library, there is another copy of the above work, with the following addition to the title, "and Great-Britain, and other northern nations. In a dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist, an Englishman and an Irishman. By Francis Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. To which are added, two sermons, the first preached on occasion of the union, and the other at a publick commencement at Cambridge.' In all other respects, the works are exactly alike, except that, in the one having the author's name, the motto is considerably shorter.

DEFENCE (a) of the Arch-bishop's sermon on the death of her late majesty of blessed memory: and of the sermons of the late Arch-bishop, Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry, Bp. of Ely, Bp. of Salisbury; Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Wake, Mr. Fleetwood, &c. preach'd upon that, and several other solemn occasions. Being a vindication of the late queen, his present majesty, and the government, from the malicious aspersions cast upon them in two late pamphlets; one [by Tenison] entituled, Remarks on some late sermons, &c. the other [by Ken], A letter to the author of a sermon preach'd at the funeral of her late majesty Queen Mary. [By John WILLIAMS, D.D.]

London, 1695. Quarto.* [Bodl.]

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[St Omer] 1602. Quarto. [Brit. Mus.] DEFENCE (a) of the censvre gyven vpon tvvo bookes of William Charke and Meredith Hanmer mynysters, whiche they wrote against M. Edmond Campian preest, of the Societie of Iesus, and against his Offer of disputation. Taken in hand since the deathe of the said M. Campian, and broken of agayne before it could be ended, vpon the causes sett downe in an epistle to M. Charke in the begyninge. [By Robert PARSONS.]

An. 1582. Octavo. Pp. 38. b. t. 173. 3.* DEFENCE (a) of the Church Missionary Society against the objections of the Rev. Josiah Thomas, M.A., Archdeacon of Bath. [By Daniel WILSON, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta.]

London 1818. Octavo.* [Queen's Coll. Cat., p. 457.]

DEFENCE (a) of the Church of England from priestcraft, in vindication of the contested clause of the xxth Article. Extracted out of the Vindication of the Church of England from the aspersions of a late libel, entituled, Priestcraft in perfection, &c. By the author of the Vindication. [Hilkiah BEDFORD.]

London: 1711. Octavo.* [Brit. Mus.] DEFENCE (a) of the Church of England, from the charge of schism and heresie, as laid against it by [Henry Dodwell] the vindicator of the deprived bishops. [By Edward WELSHMAN.]

London: M DC XCI. Quarto.* [Wood,
Athen. Oxon., iv. 481.]

DEFENCE (a) of the college of
G--
w [Glasgow], against
an insidious attempt to depreciate the
ability and taste of its professors. [By
William THOM, minister of Govan.]

Printed in the year, MDCCLXII. Octavo. Pp. 16. Reprinted among "The works of the Rev. William Thom...". Glasgow: 1799. 12mo.

DEFENCE (a) of the Communionoffice of the Church of England, proving there is neither reason nor authority for laying it aside; in a letter to a friend. [By G. SMITH.] Edinburgh M. DCC. XLIV. Octavo. Letter signed G. S.

DEFENCE (a) of the confuter [Patrick]

of Bellarmin's second Note of the Church antiquity, against the cavils of the adviser. [By George TULLY, A.M.] : MDCLXXXVII. Quarto.* London: DEFENCE (a) of the Considerations [by Bishop Edmund Law] on the propriety of requiring a subscription to articles of faith. In reply to a late answer [by T. Randolph] from the Clarendon Press. By a friend of religious liberty. [William PALEY, archdeacon of Carlisle.]

London MDCCLXXIV. Octavo. Pp. 51.* [Brit. Mus.]

DEFENCE of the Dean of St. Paul's apology for writing against the Socinians. [By William SHERLOCK, D.D.] 1694. Quarto. [Bliss' Cat., 290.] DEFENCE (a) of the dissenters education in their private academies in answer to Mr. Wy's [Wesley's] disingenuous and unchristian reflections upon 'em. In a letter to a noble Lord. [By Samuel PALMER.]

London, 1703. Quarto.*

DEFENCE (a) of the Dissertation on the validity of the English ordinations. Against the several answers made to it. With proper vouchers for the facts advanced in that work. In two volumes. By the author of the Dissertation. [Pierre François LE COURAYER.]

London: MDCCXXVIII. Octavo.*

DEFENCE (a) of the doctrin & holy rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the calumnies, and cavils of Dr Burnet's Mystery of iniquity unveiled, by J. W. [J. WARNER.] Second

edition.

1688. Octavo.

DEFENCE (a) of the doctrine and practice of the Church of England against some modern innovations with

respect to I. The supremacy of the crown. II. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a sacrifice. III. Baptism administer'd by lay-men invalid. IV. The necessity and authority of sacerdotal absolution. In a letter to a friend. [By John TURNER, D.D.]

London: 1712. Octavo. Pp. 64.* [Bodl.]

DEFENCE (a) of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity, and incarnation placed in their due light. In answer to a letter, written to the clergy of both universities. [By Arthur BURY, D.D.] N. P. N. D. Quarto.* [Bodl.] DEFENCE (a) of the Doubts concerning the authenticity of the last publication of The confessional [by Rev. Francis Blackburne], &c. answer to Occasional remarks, &c. [By Thomas TOWNSON.]

In

London: M DCC LXVIII. Octavo.* [Gent. Mag., June 1792, p. 573.]

DEFENCE (a) of the Duke of Buckingham's book of religion & worship, from the exceptions of a nameless author. By the Pensilvanian. [William PENN.] London, 1685. Quarto.* [Jones' Peck, p. 67.]

DEFENCE (a) of the ecclesiastical discipline ordayned of God to be vsed in his church. Against a replie of Maister Bridges, to a brief and plain declaration of it, which was printed An. 1584, which replie he termeth, A defence of the gouernement established in the Church of Englande, for ecclesiasticall matters. [By Walter TRAVERS.]

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against the exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux, late bishop of Condom, and his vindicator. [By William WAKE, D.D.] London, MDCLXXXVI. Quarto. Pp. xxiv. 166.* [Brit. Mus.]

DEFENCE (a) of the first head of the charge of the committee of the lower house of convocation against the Right Reverend the Bishop of Bangor. Being remarks upon some positions of his Lordship, contained in his Sermon, in his answer to Dr. Snape, and to the Representation. Wherein is shewn, that his Lordship hath denied, and doth still deny, all authority to the church. [By Henry STEBBING, D.D.]

London, 1718. Octavo. Pp. 2. b. t. 96.* [Bodl.]

DEFENCE (a) of the godlie ministers, against the slaunders of D. Bridges, contayned in his ansvvere to the Preface before the Discourse of ecclesiasticall gouernement, with a declaration of the bishops proceeding against them. Wherein chieflie, 1. The lawful authoritie of her maiestie is defended by the Scriptures, her lawes, and authorised interpretation of them, to be the same which we have affirmed, against his cauilles and slaunders to the contrarie. 2. The lawfull refusinge also of the ministers to subscribe, is maintayned by euident groundes of Gods worde, and her maiesties lawes, against his euident wresting of both. 3. Lastlie, the forme of church-gouernement, which propounde, is according to his demande sillogisticallie proued to be ordinarie, perpetuall, and the best. [By Dudley FENNER.] 1587. Quarto. Pp. 150.*

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DEFENCE (a) of the honorable sentence and execution of the Queene of Scots: exempled with analogies, and diuerse presidents of emperors, kings, and popes; with the opinions of learned men in the point, and diuerse reasons gathered foorth out of both lawes ciuill and canon, together with the answere to certaine obiections made by the fauorites of the late Scottish queene. [By Maurice KYFFIN.]

At London, printed by John Windet [1587]. Quarto.* [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man., p. 1501.]

DEFENCE (a) of the Humble remonstrance against the frivolous and

false exceptions of Smectymnvvs. Wherein the right of leiturgie and episcopacie is clearly vindicated from the vaine cavils, and challenges of the Answerers. By the author of the said Humble remonstrance [Joseph HALL, D.D.] Seconded (in way of appendance) with the judgement of the famous divine of the Palatinate, D. Abrahamus Scultetus, late professor of divinitie in the universitie of Heidelberg: concerning the divine right of episcopacie, and the no-right of layeldership. Faithfully translated out of his Latine.

London, 1641. Quarto.* [New Coll. Cat.] DEFENCE (a) of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke, against the Reply of Sieur Lewis-Philip Thummig, in favour of Mr. Leibnitz, with that Reply in French and English. To which is added an original letter from Mr. Leibnitz. [By Rev. Gregory SHARPE, LL.D., Master of the Temple.]

London: 1744. Octavo. [W., Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

DEFENCE of the letter from a gentleman at Halifax, to his friend in Rhode-Island. [By Martin HOWARD, Esq., afterwards Chief Justice of North Carolina.]

Newport M.DCC. LXV. Octavo. [Bodl.] DEFENCE (a) of the letter to Dr. Waterland; against the false and frivolous cavils of [Zachary Pearce] the author of the Reply. [By Conyers MIDDLETON, D.D.]

London: MDCCXXXII.
[Darling, Cyclop. Bibl.]

Octavo. Pp. 94.*

DEFENCE (a) of the majority in the House of Commons, on the question relating to general warrants. In answer to the Defence of the minority. [By Charles LLOYD.]

London: 1764. Octavo. [Almon's Biog. Anec., 1. 79; ii. 109.]

DEFENCE (a) of the ministers reasons, for refvsall of svbscription to the Booke of Common Prayer and of Conformitie. Against the severall ansvvers. Of T. Hutton Bacheler of divinity, in his two bookes against the minist of Dev. and Cornwell. William Covel, D. in divinitie, in his booke against M. I. Burges. Tho: Shark. D. in divinitie, in his brotherly perswasion to Vnitie and Vniformitie. So farr as any thing is sayd by them concerning the holy

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