A VINDICATION OF A PASSAGE IN DR. SNAPE'S SECOND LETTER TO THE LORD BISHOP OF BANGOR, RELATING TO MR. PILLONNIERE by Snape, Andrew - 1717

London: Jonah Boyer, 1717. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. xi, [1], 80 pp. First edition. As issued, stitched in self-wrappers; untrimmed. Dog-eared, some sections are folding in at the inner margin; contemporary inscription on the title page. One of the pamphlets in the "Bangorian controversy" which erupted in 1717 when the bishop of Bangor, Benjamin Hoadly, delivered a sermon before the king in which he denied that the church had any doctrinal or disciplinary authority. This was followed by two more editions the same year. ESTC T138339.