Burroughes, Jeremiah

An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea. Begun in Divers Lectures Vpon the First Three Chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London

      R. Dawlman, 1643. Very Good First printing, 1643. Large octavo, original full calf, pp. (4), 750. Very good, possibly lacking a frontispiece portrait (a portrait plate is mentioned in the OCLC listing of this title). Some wear and rubbing to binding, joints still tight, 2.5 inch vertical split to center of spine leather, can easily be mended; spine darkened, some wear to endpapers, rear flyleaf missing; early ownership signatures, including: "Edm. Jones...1651" and "Thomas Francis his book 1764" Text clean and unmarked, albeit a little tanned and with minor occasional spottiness. Only a handful of copies in libraries worldwide. This is the first of four volumes on Hosea that was Burroughes' most ambitious work. Burroughes (1599-1646), wikipedia entry: Burroughs studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was graduated M.A. in 1624, [1] but left the university because of non-conformity. He was assistant to Edmund Calamy at Bury St. Edmunds, and in 1631 became rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk. He was suspended for non-conformity in 1636 and soon afterward deprived, he went to Rotterdam (1637) and became "teacher" of the English church there. He returned to England in 1641 and served as preacher at Stepney and Cripplegate, London. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly and one of the few who opposed the Presbyterian majority. While one of the most distinguished of the English Independents, he was one of the most moderate, acting consistently in accordance with the motto on his study door (in Latin and Greek): "Opinionum varietas et opinantium unitas non sunt as? stata" ("Difference of belief and unity of believers are not inconsistent").