Leslie, Charles. (1650-1722).

CASSANDRA (But I Hope Not) Telling What Will Come of It. - (A Series of 10 Letters from 1588-1704 Regarding Church Government) Note Below Title: "In Answer to the Occasional Letter. Num. I. Wherein the New-Associa tions, & C. Are Considered", Refers to Two Pamphlets by Leslie Which Attack the Scottish Presbyterian Church (Cf. DNB)..

      1704.. First Edition,. London [England] : printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1704. - CONTENTS. : I. ) Several Authors Reflected upon.1. One not Named,2. The Abridgement of Eufebhis.3. The Preface to it. II. ) Of Charging Books upon Parties, Wherein of the Obfervations. III. ) Of the Secret History. Wherein of the Murther of the Arch- Bishop of St. Andrews. IV. ) The Charader of an Enthufiaft. V. ) Conclufion. Upon the Bill of Occafional Conformity APPENDIX. : I. ) A Declaration of K. Char. II. In Scotland, 1650. With the Ad of the Weft-Kirk. And General Lefty's Letter to OliverCromwell. Some Obfervations upon this Declaration. II. ) A Letter concerning the prefent Treatment the Epifcopal Cler-gy in Scotland meet with from the Presbyterians there. With force Remarks upon a Book lately Printed, Entitul'd, An Ac-count of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland, which met at Edinburgh. May 6. 1703. And the late Addrefs of the Kirk to Her Majefty. III. ) The Lord Chancellor Puckering's Speech in the Houfe of Lords, Anno 1588.IV. ) A late Letter from Geneva, of their nearer Approaches to theChurch of England. V. ) The Horrid Proceffion of the Presbyterians at Edinburgh, March 15.1704. For Burning the Holy Bible, &c. By the Handsof the Common-Hangman. POST-SCRIPT. : Sheaving how the Honourable Houfe of Commons in England isTreated by the Presbyterians in Scotland. With a Specimen of the Gravity and Abilities (if their Mini-sters and Kirk-Judicatories. - Charles Leslie was the principal post-Revolution exponent of patriarchalist political philosophy. His political theory, which derives from Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha and the Anglican Royalist ideology of jure divino monarchy and passive obedience, is expounded in The Rehearsal and in such works as The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificat Stated (1700) , The New Association, Part II (1703) , Cassandra (1704) , The Best Answer (1709) , Best of All (1709) , The Constitution, Laws and Government, of England, Vindicated (1709) and The Finishing Stroke (1711). An extreme proponent of patriarchal monarchy, Leslie nevertheless made clear that the purpose of kingly government was to secure the Church. - Original Stitched binding as issued on thick laid papers. ; 4to (9.5" x 7.75"); 98, [2] pages; Reference ESTCP2833.