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[Ormiston, James].
The Satan of Scripture.
Publisher: Smith, Elder, & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1876
Stock Code: 14830
First edition. Duodecimo, pp., xiii, [1], 191, [1]. Full burgundy morocco; spine on five bands, titled and ornamented in gilt to compartments; Etruscan frame in gilt to boards; gilt fillets to edges of boards; gilt rolls to dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled end-papers. Gift inscription in ink to front free end-paper dated October 14 1876. Author’s name supplied in blue ink in contemporary hand to title-page. Upper joint lightly rubbed, shelf-wear to extremities. Very occasional spotting to contents but otherwise clean and neat. Near-fine. A finely bound copy of a work on the personality of Satan, written in response to the Clifton Excommunication of 1874-6. In 1874, Flavel Cook evangelical vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, barred a parishioner following a dispute over the personality of Satan and the reality of Hell. The excommunication produced both legal and theological controversy. This work was one of the few Evangelical defences of Cook. £85.00